RE: The Museum of Social Justice Propaganda
Ugh... I detest the glorification of mediocrity that is a hallmark of propaganda. The insistence on oversimplification. The refusal to ask questions, jettisoning curiosity and skepticism in favor of gleeful presentations of opinion-disguised-as-fact. The patronizing didacticism, as if the author already has all of the answers and is simply presenting them in book form as a public service. As if the simplistic pap being fed to the reader is somehow complex and multilayered and rich with meaning just because the tone of the writing seems to take for granted that it is. As if the whole exercise isn't a depressing, demoralizing, and infuriating insult to the intelligence of any average adult. Or even child. The insipid feeble-mindedness of this kind of thing gets to me almost more than whatever the agenda happens to be. Although if it's being presented in these ways, the agenda's likely to be pretty fucking evil regardless.
Yeah, that book sounds like outright propaganda or at the very least opportunistic fucking pandering. Yuck.
Gets on my nerves too. It's sad and what's worse is that a lot of people are just eating it up, accepting it as the norm. Because many these days seem to be "fashionable readers". They do it to appear interesting and they prefer easy reads, because that way, they get the cred without the effort. :/