As Antonio Gramsci argued, ruling groups maintain power partly by making their ideas seem like common sense. This helps explain the political significance of Metallica’s call for disengagement at a time when Israel’s genocide in Palestine demands urgent international attention. Hetfield’s vague agenda of “love, energy and heavy music” ultimately amounts to a refusal to stand for anything meaningful. And that refusal is itself deeply political.
Who’s getting their political takes from celebs or artists? Stop.
Plenty of apolitical people do. Is it a good idea? Prolly not. Has that stopped them before?
Art has been political since the invention of art. You cannot separate the two.
🤨🫸 “getting political takes from celebrities”
😎👉 “choosing artists for their political takes”
Rage against the machine is very popular for their political takes, so i guess a lot.
Ever spoken out loud to another human? Probably most do.
Getting them from random anonymous weirdos in the internet = much better
Who’s still convinced in 2026 that celebs and artists are all as politically knowledgeable and insightful as the most ignorant and superficial ones?
Stop.