Not counting non-fiction. Are there any novels, poems, movies etc. that have realigned or punched holes in your political leanings, rather than reinforced them?
How do I report this post for hurting my feelings?
I read a lot of Robert Heinlein when I was a teenager. After growing up a good little Christian boy, they were quite enlightening.
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The Dispossessed. I am now an anarchist.
Good answer. Will have to check that out (only read Earthsea so far)
When you finish it, look to The Left Hand of Darkness.
Also, there is a postscript/short story that serves as a prequel to Dispossessed. The Day Before the Revolution. Do not read it first.
Reading LHOD at the moment! About half way through. Really interesting concepts
Once you are done, consider the date it was published.
this is my favorite John comic
This blue square for which I can’t find a better source for.
No, not really, that was a joke.
Johnny Silverhand did nothing wrong.
Cyberpunk 2077 is better than GTA 5
Undoubtedly. There’s not many games I’d put above it.
Chumbawumba. All of their songs and lyrics have aged perfectly, terrifyingly so.
“The Dilbert Principle” by Scott Adams.
It brought together so many real observations to finally make sense.
Picasso’s “La Guernica”
Children of Men (movie) made me realize/understand the great global despair that comes with human unsustainability.
it solidified my belief that humans are greedy self-serving goblins that would doom the human race just to feel important or powerful.
there are exceptions to the rule, but the rule still stands.
Bill Watterson was my childhood philosopher.
I am laughing and crying
Today’s xkcd is pretty terrifying. Even more so with the context.
It more reinforced it.
You beat me to it. There’s something particularly effective about someone who basically never swears dropping a single “fuck” into a sentence and I get the same feeling here.
For those curious
Atlas Shrugged changed my political beliefs entirely when I read it as a teenager. Real life experience and empathy changed it back again a few years later, thankfully. It’s tough when you’re young, recognizing that the world is flawed and searching for something that might be an answer.
It’s not quite the same because I was never any kind of ardent “pro-nuke” activist, but the movie Threads took me from a position of resigned ambivalence regarding the existence of nuclear weapons to a strong believer in global disarmament. If anyone is neutral on the topic of nuclear weapons, I’d suggest they give it a watch.
Fun fact about Ayn Rand: BioShock was partly inspired by her philosophy, or rather how disastrous it would be.
Another fun fact about her: at the end of her life, she got financial aid froß the government under a fake name.
Hahahaha what a cunt
Good for you on overcoming Rand’s bullshit worldview. And, yeah, Threads is still terrifying all these years later. That, and When The Wind Blows.
The 2002 film El Crimen de Padre Amaro did a lot of the heavy lifting on turning me around on keeping pregnancy termination legal. I saw it in the theater because I was with a bunch of Hispanophones and that was the only film playing in Spanish at the time. It was so powerful. It’s the kind of movie you only watch once, though.
