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What are you doing about it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by comfy@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad, "

This post is just asking: So, what are you doing about it?

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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

but this rant happens early in the film, and the rest of the story shows how the network it aired on figured out how to capitalize on the ratings it generated

Absolutely, even when I gave the scene a quick watch before posting this, I thought about comments various writers have made about capital's ability to subsume critique of capitalism. The contract reading scene in the Ecumenical Liberation Army house really pulls it into the forefront.