American culture, and I'm not talking about cultural objects like Burgers, Banjos, Straw hats, or Seersucker suits or cultural Music like Country, Rap or Jazz. Im talking about behavioral culture like Hyper consumerism, Hyper materialism, American exceptionalism, or the insane Police and Military culture that's normalized. Like the last two could be fixed if the left plays its cards right but the consumerism and Materialism thing I think could be permanently bricked into the American brain. I live in America and I will always remember this time when ii was a kid and my family was on our way back from a road trip and we stopped at a McDonalds that was around an hour away from our and my little brother was upset that my Dad forgot to order a Root-Beer so he said "Don't worry we will pass like 15 other McDonald on the way home." And he said that like it was normal. I don't even think that in countries like Europe you can just walk into a Walmart and get like 47 different flavors of Oreos, Like I don't think that its inherently bad but there is no way that we get the stuff to make those Oreos without exploiting the labor of Sugar farmers in or from Guatemala or something, if it was self reliant then its fine but America doesn't manufacture anything we use anymore, Our entire economy is just 5 AI companies shuffling money between themselves. I will always remember that time that Trump was doing in interview about the Tariffs and he said "Well maybe Girls in America can have two dolls instead of thirty dolls" and although I hate Trump and his hostility to China he Isn't wrong about how kids don't need to have 30 of the same dolls to survive, and of course that is why the liberal media attacked him for saying that more then the stuff that deserves condemnation.
23 posts and 4 image replies omitted.>>2644138you're still thinking like a voluntary idealist hence your cultural critique is just as brainrotted as the culture you critique, it's downstream from the same dialectical byproduct. go antipodal. study captial vol 2.
>>2644138It's not a question you seriously ask if you know the history of the communist movement. Every culture can adapt but every single one will also be only barely recognizable. Lenin actually encouraged party members to adopt American ways, by which he meant focus on efficiency.
One big problem is that the founding fathers intended America to be a petty bourgeois country and that cultural focus persists to this day. Even the supposed left there can't bring themselves to be Marxists and despise the very fact that small business exists in modern society. But that's just one thing they'll have to overcome.
>Is it possible to fix American culture?
No and even if it was possible, why?
>the insane Police and Military culture that's normalized. Like the last two could be fixed if the left plays its cards right
HAAHAHAAHHAAA KEK these can only be fixed if the empire falls, taking its security forces with it. What could American leftists even do - tell the cops that it's LE RACIST to shoot black people and the soldiers that it's LE RACIST to randomly invade other countries and kill all the children with bombs and at some point the low-ranking drones will just magically change?
>>2644138half of those companies aren't even american
Will take a long time. I would say that Europe is probably 70% Americanized since the 1970s for example.
For America to have it's culture change though, it would need to lose it's status as a cultural hegemon and likely there to be a more successful, enviable Communist culture to emulate.