Any media consumption isn’t bad praxis, its just not praxis. ML theory says nothing about media consumption, and it does literally nothing to further our goals.
Like, praxis is just putting theory into practice. Obviously not everything in a persons life has to relate to theory, not doing praxis is nothing like a sin.
Bad praxis is more like trying and failing (like right action, wrong material conditions), or being counter-productive. Whether its actually a problem or sin equivalent is entirely context dependent, plenty of people who did bad praxis are hailed as martyrs.
ML theory says nothing about media consumption, and it does literally nothing to further our goals.
Media isn’t the same as entertainment media, so reading theory is media consumption.
But yeah, the only real ML line I’ve seen about entertainment media consumption is about how it is used by the establishment for the sake of conservative ends (whether by villifying an Other or by being performatively anti-capitalist as a release valve of personal catharsis). I haven’t seen very much about entertainment media in a positive sense except within socialist states (where it was mostly handled rather poorly, imo).
Any media consumption isn’t bad praxis, its just not praxis. ML theory says nothing about media consumption, and it does literally nothing to further our goals.
Like, praxis is just putting theory into practice. Obviously not everything in a persons life has to relate to theory, not doing praxis is nothing like a sin.
Bad praxis is more like trying and failing (like right action, wrong material conditions), or being counter-productive. Whether its actually a problem or sin equivalent is entirely context dependent, plenty of people who did bad praxis are hailed as martyrs.
Media isn’t the same as entertainment media, so reading theory is media consumption.
But yeah, the only real ML line I’ve seen about entertainment media consumption is about how it is used by the establishment for the sake of conservative ends (whether by villifying an Other or by being performatively anti-capitalist as a release valve of personal catharsis). I haven’t seen very much about entertainment media in a positive sense except within socialist states (where it was mostly handled rather poorly, imo).