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mvassilev
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posted June 06, 2009 05:45 PM |
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Propoganda is everywhere
"What did the robot say to the centipede?"
"Get a new car?"
"No. STOP BEING A CENTIPEDE!"
"Haha. I get it."
"You do?"
"Yeah. It’s funny because the robot – he ain’t got no arms." - Klay Kamping
This joke isn’t as nonsensical as one would presume. In fact, it uses anti-humour as a medium of social commentary. Symbolism is used subtly, so the average viewer would not notice the observations describing the plight of workers displaced by technological innovation.
Some of this is obscured through a reversal – the robot, which represents the worker, is mechanical, thus concealing the nature of whom he represents. However, once the outer layers are peeled back, this choice of symbol reveals a Marxist perspective of the issue – that the worker is being exploited and is treated like a machine. If one needs any further confirmation, one need only look at the etymology of the word "robot" – it comes from Czech robota, meaning "drudgery"; yet in other Slavic languages that word has a significantly less negative denotation: "work".
The many-limbed centipede represents new technology. The worker expresses his frustration loudly as it replaces him. The robot, who “ain’t got no arms”, can hardly compete with the hecatonchirous centipede. The contrast is further augmented when one looks at the structural comparison of the symbol of the means of production: limbs. The centipede’s many legs do the same job as the robot’s lost arms (perhaps symbolising an industrial accident), yet are not the same – they are analogous structures, but not homologous.
The ghost’s initial thought – "get a new car" – represents what Knox perceives as the capitalist response to the worker’s plight, although the ghost, being an otherworldly being, has a reversed perception of the situation. In typical Marxist criticism, the capitalists would respond to the worker’s plight with advertising that promotes consumerism – "Buy a grill!" "Purchase a Snuggie!" "Get a new car!"
This is only one of many Marxist messages in the video, which is a Trojan horse for socialism. Thus, Klay Kamping is a work of propaganda spawned by Knox’s Kommunist Korner.
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DagothGares
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posted June 06, 2009 05:56 PM |
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BEWARE OF THE DILLY DALLY GHOST!
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Doomforge
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posted June 06, 2009 05:57 PM |
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Well, Marxism is dead - and it's not a good ideology for modern times anyway, when most people moved from industry to services and don't "work" like people used to.
So it's pretty hard to call it a propaganda - I see more consumerism/corporatism propaganda than socialist propaganda everywhere, anyway;D
But I am a socialist, I think. Not very radical but I am. So I'm biased 
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