CULTURE WARS| It is quite difficult if not impossible for a new generation to be educated about the struggles of a previous one. This is best done when it is itself recruited and inducted into past struggles. (Contd)
If old enemies are now vanquished- the gains and interests that the victors earned require that the spectre of these past enemies be kept alive and the conflicts re-enacted. This is often the role of bards, writers and filmmakers today.
So popular culture is often a reproduction of conflict and its protagonists. When black, brown bodies are wasted in that slick action flick and the turban, Russian accent and bloodshot eyes of the rebel in the African jungle stare back - its culture but also war by other means.
This really makes it hard sometimes to pick the evenings entertainment because the bulk of it is race war and conflict with only familiar victors and victims. Still we wait @007 because November is nigh. Woke yes but a guilty pleasure.
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