Y'all always seem to be late to the party. From hastags to sports and music, it's like were stuck in your own lefty ghetto. Like seriously do we even listen to anything that isnt punk/folk punk or old-ass hip hop? Same with aesthetics. We seem to default to 90's punk aesthetic and ethos too much. This is apparent in meetings also. Everything is always barely minimally adequate or just plain shitty, never accommodating to people who arent single, 20 somethin white dudes. That style is tired and boring af. Wheres the cookouts, Djs, dancing etc?
With the Culture War raging all around us, one would think the radicals would be the most avant-garde. The Left has a long history of being avant-garde ie Dada etc but this doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
While I've seen some good advancements, such as vaporwave memes, its seems the left is slow on the come up. Why do you all think this is?
Wheres the fierce, iconoclastic and avant-garde C U L T U R E? Wheres the slick motion graphics, production value and hype? Why cant the left bring in more culture to balance and reinforce the politics within? Just look at the front page. Post after post of Doom and Gloom. Hardly any culture, celebration and fun. We need to balance that shit out to give radicals something to live FOR.
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GrimWillow wrote
I believe culture is in the wake of everyone, whether we like it or not. Maybe I misunderstand what you mean by "culture", but I find that different communities are in different places, and often on Turtle Island Anarchists are marginalized. It's hard enough to walk around in public as a constant 1-on-1 decolonization workshop without worrying about whether I'm being "cultural" or something. I create art and engage with the working class to show them new ways of thinking. I'm not sure what you're demanding from everyone, but I think culture is happening just by seeing the world in an Anarchist lens and then creating and expressing.
If people want to cling to some old styles, why not? They wish to glorify something that is often villified and dismissed. That's a fucking battle to do in this society enough without you hating on them for being that way. I have no interest in trying to compete with the slick form that capitalist propaganda takes, and instead try to glorify anything that has MEANING. Whenever people ask me my favorite "genre", I tell them that my favorite "genre" takes any form, but is meaningful. So I may not prefer country music, but if it's Anarchist country music then it is FUCKING AWESOME and I LOVE IT. I'll show support to them instead of being like "This is fucking unappealing, why are Anarchists so shitty??" just because country isn't my go-to.
But maybe you're speaking of a problem that's not affecting me where I am or something.