Macrodata Refinement

I only watched Severance Season 1 last month. I'm actually glad I didn't have to endure the 3 year wait for Season 2. It is an outstanding show and well worth the watch. There are two things that I find interesting about a lot of media:

1. How much of it is nakedly anti-capitalist and many people don't seem to recognize that. Severance is incredibly anti-capitalist and damning of the entire corporate world. It paints the corporate world as soulless and disconnected from reality. The bizarre perks like the wellness sessions, getting to know you, the music dance experience and the waffle party are a searing indictmment on any corporate team-building experience; and

2. How much media is anti-imperialist and we have no problem identifying that the resistance to that are the "good guys" and the authoritarian state are quite clearly the "bad guys" yet, again, people can't seem to see that in real life. The classic example of Star Wars, which George Lucas has explicitly stated that the Rebellion was based on Vietnamese resistance to American imperialist ambitions [1].

Milchick in "Defiant Jazz" lives rent-free in my head. The work is mysterious and important.

[1]: https://www.cbr.com/george-lucas-vietnam-war-star-wars-inspi...

Capitalism != corpocracy

"Corpocracy" is, quite literally, capitalism.

What do you think capitalism is, exactly?

Not 'quite literally'. You can have capitalism that is not dominated by corporations.

Yet in the real world that doesn't seem the case.

In many countries it is the case. The dystopian behemoth corpocracy of the USA is a unique blight. Other developed capitalist economies are usually much more regulated than the US, resulting in larger emphasis on worker protection, worker rights and better anti-trust practices.

You're saying it is a great show but It Is Blasphemy so you won't watch it anymore?

Our economic system is not gospel.

I guess for the first one you weren’t around to enjoy the exact sort of nonsense in insane, soulless soviet bureaucracies. To me it doesn’t really seem anti-capitalist, it’s more anti obscure, sprawling, inhuman and unintelligible authoritarian power structures. Cults and philosophers have been inventing those long before anyone thought up capitalism.