this netflix documentary 'the social dilemma' was bland and uninteresting, with an acute, hyperfocus on social media companies to evade any structural analysis of capitalism and how it has historically necessitated the conditions of mass surveillance, commodified surveillance,

disinformation, propaganda, cultural hegemony, etc... and of course it dives into russiagate bullshit, and anti-communist nonsense mourning the loss of 'centrism' and equating the "far left" with the "far right" (AKA fascists), specifying that centrists are losing ground

and "far right and left 'populist' parties" are rising to power. and it puts the onus of all this on social media, not capitalism, white supremacy, imperialism, and the structures which constitute the world and to which capitalist social media is a result of. basura basura basura

i'm entirely troubled by the politics of the documentary, bc i know how many people have/will watch it, how many i've seen praising it, and how it uses an important convo on the dangers which capitalist social media has presented to the world for bullshit political messaging.

the overall political implication presented in the documentary is that social media (and technology at large) "creates more populism", election hacking, "tribalism" [sic], dissent, and they lament a loss of "compromise" but a "compromise" that is with fascists.

you know what lemme stop tweeting and just write a formal review. gotta find a place to pitch this now lol

white tech experts mourning the "loss of democracy" (specifically in the 'developed nations' according to the documentary) with the blame placed on social media — not that "democracy" has never been present in capitalist-imperialist society and never will — is laughable