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Born in the USA Was a Protest Song (lemmy.world)

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[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 77 points 1 year ago (18 children)

A lot of quintessentially American things are anti-American

"Born in the USA," Bruce Springsteen in general, "Rambo," Mark Twain, "Monopoly," MTV, et cetera

The arc goes:

US system is bullshit
Someone points it out in an artistic work
People love it and the thing they made gets popular
System goes "hey we love that you're buying this please do it more" and promotes it under a guise of it not being directed squarely at them, with some skillful edits
Thing gets even more popular with more exposure, in its edited (backwards) form, to the point that the original is often semi-forgotten

Being against the bullshit is an American trait. Unfortunately, the bullshit has become more powerful than the against, hence all these problems we have now.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MTV?

[–] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really “anti American” but not completely establishment friendly. They had Rock the Vote, Beavis and Butthead, Monty Python including the nudity, Jon Stewart got his start there, they had Liquid TV and weird nonsense on the air, at a time when most TV was pure Tom Brokaw and all why bombing Iranians is cool all the time.

Compared to now, it looks super establishment friendly, but for the landscape of television at the time it was pretty anarchistic. Now it is the narrative of course. 😕

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

To MTV's credit, they also did a lot to normalize homosexuality with The Real World.

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