RIGHT! Capitalist culture bombards us from every angle and soaks right through us. We could not help but be influenced. Please skip to the next question.
TV Commercials are more blatant, but the programming affects us in more sneaky ways. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
We have an illusion of choice, but we don't get to control what is offered. We may find ourselves choosing the "least worst" of what's offered. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
Please don't succumb to the isolation that elitism brings. Turning up our noses limits our sight! Please read the essay or just try another answer.
The villains in our books, movies, and TV tend to change along with whatever the capitalists want. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
RIGHT! The villains tend to be whoever the capitalist class wants to demonize or belittle. Please skip to the next question.
. The people may get to choose between the options offered, but we don't have much control over the options. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
Actually, the targets for demonization change quite a bit over short periods of time. Muslims, for example, were hardly ever cast as movie demons until 2001. After 2001, most movie villains were Muslim! Please read the essay or just try another answer.
"Brassed Off" may have been British, but their films generally are just as biased as Hollywood's. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
When you stop to think about it, almost everything takes one side or another. Hardly anything sits exactly on that fine line between, so hardly anything is really "neutral." "Brassed Off" was about a mining town that was losing all its jobs. The people there had to bravely cope with it. It was hardly a neutral situation. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
I'm not sure if "Brassed Off" was a morality play or not, but moralities and other abstractions are not the main concern of materialists. If you picked this answer, you might want to look at the lessons on materialism in the school. From my little experience in this school, not using materialism seems to be the biggest obstacle to understanding in America. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
RIGHT! Just think how rare it is to see working people positively! Please skip to the next question.
Isolation is impossible, and wouldn't help solve the problem even if it were. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
Isolation is impossible, and wouldn't help solve the problem even if it were. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
I have to admire your ambition if you chose this answer. Truly, national boycotts are called over cultural products from time to time. But you couldn't possibly boycott all the capitalist culture. Please read the essay or just try another answer.
RIGHT! It's a daily struggle to understand how we are being brainwashed, and it's a daily challenge to try to help our brothers and sisters. But that's what we have to do while we work for a better future. Please skip to the next question.
RIGHT! It might not be so hard to create and advocate for activities of value to working people. You might participate in a union songfest. You might have friends over to watch "Salt of the Earth" together. Thanks for running through this little lesson. The work before you will be long and sometimes difficult, but more worthwhile than anything in life! Please use the "feedback" feature to help me update and correct problems in the school. --JimLane
Texan Jim Hightower likes to say that "there's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadilloes!" Please read the essay or just try another answer.
Don't let elitism isolate you. You can't really untie a knot without touching it! Please read the essay or just try another answer.
You may know people who ridicule others for liking common capitalist cultural activities. Ridiculers are isolating themselves and making themselves ineffective in the struggle for a better world. Please read the essay or just try another answer.