Climate change poses a catastrophic threat to the future of humanity. The capitalist class has proven itself utterly incapable of tackling this problem.
Better at propaganda? I literally can’t stop consuming American media that reinforces liberal-capitalist ways of thinking. My school was designed to conform to American propaganda standards, my workplace, my country’s constitution. When I explain the righteousness of communism I do through the liberal language of rights. When I make moral choices it takes constant effort to avoid returning to a Protestant moral binary. I am writing this with American mannerisms. You literally can’t tell the culture I was born to because it has been literal years since I consumed artistic media from the country I was born and raised in and that I still live in.
China is not the same. As a state they are also terrible and they also commit genocide, but it’s like the difference between Napoleonic France and Louis XVI France, or between the USA and 18th century British empire, or between Nazi Germany and the postwar German Republic. Each state has its own distinct flavor of awful, and some are less awful at certain things or even categorically less awful.
Context matters. The US isn’t trying to greenwash anything right now. It’s external image has completely collapsed. Meanwhile, China is working really hard on it’s external image.
I agree though that the US is one of the most internally propagandized country. Chinese propaganda also operates differently. In China, propaganda comes from the state and corporations are extensions of the government. In the US, media is controlled by corporations and the government is an extension of the corporations.
But the context was on clean energy, and Chinese greenwashing propaganda is ahead of the US.
China is the same, but better at propaganda. There can be no centralized solution.
Better at propaganda? I literally can’t stop consuming American media that reinforces liberal-capitalist ways of thinking. My school was designed to conform to American propaganda standards, my workplace, my country’s constitution. When I explain the righteousness of communism I do through the liberal language of rights. When I make moral choices it takes constant effort to avoid returning to a Protestant moral binary. I am writing this with American mannerisms. You literally can’t tell the culture I was born to because it has been literal years since I consumed artistic media from the country I was born and raised in and that I still live in.
China is not the same. As a state they are also terrible and they also commit genocide, but it’s like the difference between Napoleonic France and Louis XVI France, or between the USA and 18th century British empire, or between Nazi Germany and the postwar German Republic. Each state has its own distinct flavor of awful, and some are less awful at certain things or even categorically less awful.
Context matters. The US isn’t trying to greenwash anything right now. It’s external image has completely collapsed. Meanwhile, China is working really hard on it’s external image.
I agree though that the US is one of the most internally propagandized country. Chinese propaganda also operates differently. In China, propaganda comes from the state and corporations are extensions of the government. In the US, media is controlled by corporations and the government is an extension of the corporations.
But the context was on clean energy, and Chinese greenwashing propaganda is ahead of the US.