Greta is authentic to her beliefs, but I always felt like her acceptance into the mainstream as an ecological activist is like when your company hires a stand up comedian at the work party and the sketches are basically laughing at the CEO being a tyrant and a monster.
One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma’s coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead…
of course, and she was very young when she started doing it. but her politics seem to be developing in the right direction and its funny that they’re trying to silence her now.
We should also wonder how our appreciation of the sophistication and totality of the propaganda apparatus and its ongoing repression squares with the peculiar kind of “critical” media that does make it to wide circulation, usually to universal praise from both the mainstream and the counter-cultural “left.” […] Disaster movies insist that the end of the world is inevitable, that we are all complicit in ecological devastation for not doing our part recycling cans — this is environmental critique. Triumphant, handsome, charismatic, “alpha” men climb to the top of their respective empires of crime in highest-budget four-season shows and are awarded the highest accolades in their profession — this passes for an indictment of capitalism. Eileen Jones insightfully observes, about David Fincher’s Gone Girl:
Even as I watched it and shuddered with revulsion, I had to admit it — Fincher’s got our number. He’s figured out how to regularly wow contemporary audiences, to present us with the appalling truth of how despicable we are in a way that never really strikes home, by alternating coldly disapproving, feel-bad effects with conspiratorial smirking ones that remove any real sting. He so often uses the trappings of film noir to showcase our “badness,” but since we’re all perverts together, it’s just the “badness” of S&M sex-play, so who cares?
Greta is authentic to her beliefs, but I always felt like her acceptance into the mainstream as an ecological activist is like when your company hires a stand up comedian at the work party and the sketches are basically laughing at the CEO being a tyrant and a monster.
That’s a really good explanation.
controlled opposition.
of course, and she was very young when she started doing it. but her politics seem to be developing in the right direction and its funny that they’re trying to silence her now.
Reminds me of this quote: