We talked about the labor intensiveness in animation, we discussed
things such as early looney tunes animation and talked about the old
ideals of the lone artist and how in the past painters used to pretend
to work alone but would have a cast of assistants and helpers.
We
talked on how the material that is the result of labor is like the
physical embodiment of that labor and the labor results in a use value,
we were then told about Marxism and how it involved people doing the
labor but then others enjoying the use value, the prior being the
proletariat the later being the bourgeoisie.
We then moved on to
ideology and how that is what was used and controlled to stop the lower
class from seeing the flaws in the system, about how the system base is
the ideology that suits capitalism, and then above it the superstructure
is society and everything is build on these crooked ideologies of the
base. Personally I think while it is true that the base that the
superstructure of society is built on granted is flawed the ground that
the base is built on itself is flawed, it is humans and human nature and
even though the current system is a shambles and unfair its a miracle
we have done it to this level given the appalling ground we were given
to build on. Still we can always do better and I believe despite us all
being quintessentially flawed beings we could make a good base for our
society to be built on. Unfortunately the way society is going is very
unlikely that we are going to consciously as a society try and improve,
the only way this will be achieved is if at the rate were going we have a
full Mad Max style collapse and the people leftover rebuild society in a
better way (which is even more unlikely given the fact the people who
thrive in a post-apocalyptic world will most definitely not be the creme
of the crop and i am more than sure would not and also not want to
build a society any different from the one we have now and then
inevitably build it up and then collapse in the exact same way and "The
cycle continues")
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