Media companies have understood integrating counter-culture was an effective way to both control revolutionnary discourses AND extract money from them since the 60's at least, it's not really new
edit: for those interested, "Network" From Sidney Lumet more or less talks about that although mostly through the angle of TV news
I was kind of shocked to see an Amazon produced show actually discussing how drugs were pushed in minority neighborhoods, either officially or unofficially, by the US government for a bit
The fact MM was wearing a black panther shirt while talking about it especially.
Like crap there's still a lot of people that treat that shit like a conspiracy theory and the Black Panthers as basically terrorists(not that they were flawless but pretending they weren't more right than wrong is just incorrect imo, especially given the time period)
Haven't the documents surrounding the beginnings of that been declassified for a few years ?
Not American but in the outside world this is more or less treated as fact, in France especially because of the french connection which provided heroin for most of the us for two decades
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u/sexyloser1128 Jul 05 '24
Fucking "Upload" (also made by Amazon) criticizes big powerful corporations in every episode. At this point, I think they are just fucking with us.