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Remove All American Media And Culture From Your Life

Anti-imperialist comm to help you in your personal journey of cultural anti-imperialism.

American culture has spread all over the world, it has dumbed down and impoverished our variegated pre-colonial and non-capitalist cultures. Every time you yank yourself, a bit of their culture worms its way into your mind. Sometimes it's explicit propaganda like Top Gun, but sometimes it's subtle: the contempt shown for the poor, the celebration of selfishness, the value-system of their empire.

All inputs enter the mind, are absorbed, and blossom as thoughts and deeds. Mass-produced culture dulls you and makes you a boring, mass-produced personality. And nations are losing their personality by letting one imperial power do this to them.

That the empire is doing this as a more-or-less deliberate tool of influence doesn't need stressing.

Stop doing this to yourself. Don't watch their television. Don't watch their films. Don't read their stupid news and politics: ABC and CNN and NBC and the rest. Don't be so fucking boring. You don't have to be boring and stupid. Turn off your TV. Pick up some of your country's classic books, or listen to African funk, or go to a storytelling night.

Examples of posts that are welcome

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I'll start with this Spanish 2007 zombie horror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec_(film)

30 more to go for the month!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

What a positively horrible idea! I love it! I'll sticky the thread and edit this comment to track the list.

  1. Rec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec_(film) , Spain 2007, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ
  2. Deathgasm. Wikipedia, 2015, Aotearoa, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  3. Titane. France, 2016. Wikipedia, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท
  4. Braindead, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braindead_(film) , 1992, Aotearoa, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  5. The Butcher Boy, 1997, Ireland, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
  6. Saloum, Senegal, 2021, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ณ
  7. Heavenly Creatures, 1994, Aotearoa, IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ
  8. Huesera: The Bone Woman, 2022, Mexico IMDB ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ
  9. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 2016, England IMDB, Wikipedia ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
  10. Speak No Evil, Denmark, 2022, Wikipedia ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is English culture allowed?

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a fun watch. Not a horrifying horror but it fits the theme of spooky season.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speak_No_Evil_(2022_film)

Danish one that won awards. It's on รพe Corsair Cove, I just downloaded it

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Saloum from Senegal, 2021.

Might seem like a crime flick for the first half, but I think it qualifies as a horror in the 2nd half.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Glad to see this thread rolling ๐Ÿ™Œ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I'm proposing Deathgasm from New Zealand.

It's comedy-horror rather than horror-horror, but it fits the seasonal theme