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Riff McClavin's avatar

I've got a confession to make: I'm often pissed off at the most propagandized. My intellectual self knows I should see them as victims and throw a little compassion their way, but damn, the shadows on the cave wall are so obviously shadows that there's no excuse to pretend otherwise. People being dumb on purpose piss me off.

If this is an indication I need to grow as a person, I can accept that. As it is, to me, these ghouls are accomplishing their goals with the most rickety lies imaginable. It would be nice if we at least put them to work a little. Or better yet, stop listening to them altogether.

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coords1306's avatar

Woah Woah Woah 'I've always hated Monopoly. What a tedious, vindictive waste of a perfectly good afternoon. I am so pissed off that we're going extinct over what essentially is just a global game of Monopoly that virtually none of us want to play.'

The game was created to show the flaws in capitalism and how awful monopoly is by a feminist in 1903. It's a beautifully constructed living metaphor, or analogy, (I never learned the difference) that I'd argue hits the same notes as the best literature. The fact US culture took the satire literally doesn't negate the brilliance of it. Just because capitalist zealots love the movie Wallstreet doesn't mean it wasn't a brilliant critique of greed...but shows the danger in how satire can be coopted. Lord knows what would happen if A Modest Proposal by Swift came out in the year 2021.

--https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/apr/11/secret-history-monopoly-capitalist-game-leftwing-origins

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