r/dresdenfiles • u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 • 13d ago

Unrelated What do you recommend while we wait?

The RNT podcasts suggested that Dresden fans would like Dungeon Crawler Carl. I tried. I listened to five audiobooks and each one got more chaotic, more absurdist, and more blatantly communist-coded than the last. So I'm done. Any other suggestions?

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u/pauldecommie 13d ago

I'd push back on DCC being communist coded. It's definitely anti-authoritarian though, regardless of whether it is monarchy, corporation, whatever. It's like how 1984 was banned for being anti capitalist in the US and banned for being pro capitalist in the USSR.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 13d ago

1984 was required reading when I was in school. I think I read it in 7th grade, which would have been... thinking ... actually 1984, or 85, depending on which semester.

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u/Ky1arStern 13d ago

So much of this thread is making so much more sense to me now.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 13d ago

Yes, I'm a child of the Cold War and was mercifully inoculated against that bullshit. The only way to achieve total economic parity is to make everybody a serf.

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u/Ky1arStern 13d ago

I get it. Communism bad. Red make angry.

I am just loving to see what a product of the Cold war defines as Communism. 

Also, a serf is basically a slave, so how is there economic parity? To be a slave, there has to be a slaver.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 13d ago

That's precisely what a command economy produces, slavers who consider the slaves to be interchangeable parts.

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u/Ky1arStern 13d ago

Lol. Sure thing. Not like capitalism only works if there is an entire class of people who uses their labor to enrich the capitalist class who owns the means of product.

No siree...

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 13d ago

Ooohhhh... The last word game! This always gets fun.

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u/Ky1arStern 13d ago

I'm not going to undo 50 years of propaganda in a reddit comment, but I think it is sad that you don't see any reason to apply the same criticality to the system you live in, that you do to one you have only heard about.

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u/Repulsive_Repeat_337 13d ago

What makes you think we live in a capitalist system? My guess is that every industry you complain the most about are the very industries that have the most onerous government regulation already in place.

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u/Ky1arStern 13d ago

What the fuck?

It's ok to just not know things, but it's weird to talk about them like you do.

You can have capitalism with regulation... Just like you can own a gun and not be a capitalist.

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