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Unpostmodernizeable
You know what sucks? To have Firefox crash while you write a very long post. Anyway, leaving all the historical crap to a side, I believe it is preety complicated to fight against the alienating construction done in modern society. I mean, look at all the advertisments everywhere, it's like the perfect way to create a society of mindless zombies. And most of the people I know that don't like society, do not really seem to be ready to change it, because they have dogmatic ideas being blindly followed. How can someone attempt to change the world into something different when most of the people who wish so are a group of dogmatic sheep? "Hey, look, Marx said that, it has to be right". Argh.
Wow, look, I just made a simplified version of a long post full of pedantic quotes from German Romanticism.
Anyway, as I was typing before Firefox crashed, I do know people who attempt to deliver the message. Songwriters, for example. Here in Spain we have quite a variety of songwriters, and well, most of the ones I know never really got to deliver much of the message because, when getting into the market, they didn't sell much for not being commercial. Of course, not like the companies promoted them. Well, I know one who has been succesful, mainly because he has been singing since the sixties, and those where different times, with different music. I mean, just compare The Beatles to Britney Spears. By the way, in case you are interested or curious, here are some songs by a Spanish songwriter that never sold much, but is very good.Oh, and it's a legal link, actually, it's from the singer's official site. I recommend "todo_eres_tu.zip", "auxi_va.zip" and "rapto.zip" (I can translate the lyrics, if someone likes them).
But well, I am starting to get off topic. I just wonder if there is a way to communicate such a thing. Of course, many have done it, but they are oftenly considered to be in some superior orb or something. Take Hölderlin, for example. How many people have read Hölderlin? He is one of my favourite thinkers. Or a better known example...Marx. OK; how many people have ACTUALLY read Marx? Same thing. If you try to make an intellectual revolution, be ready to be read by intellectuals.
For me, it would be great to have people like Noam Chomsky to be known by the average person, something beyond student discussions.
Of course, then you have someone who has gotten to be known, who is Michael Moore. But to be quite frank, he does deliver the message, yet also gets sensationalistic, wich is a double bladed weapon: you do deliver the message and people listen to it, but it looses credibility with the way it is exposed.
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