What up Holla Forums.
I'm Cavalry user. Some of you may have seen me around, and others hopefully will get to know me a bit better. A year or so ago my housemate and I were smoking in our backyard, and every time we did we ended up listening to some awesome music and then just talking shit. But usually when it ended up my turn to talk shit, I ended up ranting about shit related to communism. Wage slavery, the Spectacle, how capitalism really works, and etc. I mean, it was cool and all but I never really thought much of it until he told me one day that "dude, you should really start making a YouTube channel or some shit". I batted around the idea and ended up asking him how I'd even get started. My housemate being a cinematography major showed me a few techniques and what not for video production and ended up pointing me in the direction of a DSLR.
Well, it's been about a year since then and I still haven't published shit. I'm really conscious about putting myself out there as anyone would be, as well as possible professional backlash from such a public display against what people take as religious dogma (capitalist culture, etc). I make a whole bunch of videos where I talk about shit, and then delete them because I just don't find them good enough or any other plethora of reasons. I recently showed some to my gf and she basically scolded the fuck outta me about being that much of a coward. So, here I am. I'm going to start making some and publishing them, because god knows we can't have faces like Jason Unrooha, or teenagers like Muke and LSR represent Leftism. I want to show that functional, rational adults who aren't spergs can make leftism a viable and even an attractive intellectual choice in today's world of loud noises and unfiltered posturing. I've got a good camera, a good directional microphone, and spare time in my last semester of school to dedicate some time to it. What I wanted to do in this post is throw some ideas I have for videos at you and hopefully get a gauge of some shit that YOU guys want to see talked about.
Here's my list so far:
- The Spectacle: Living a Dead Life
- Cultural Appropriation: What It Really Is
- Myths About Socialism (this one will be multipart and include shit like muh big government and position on gun ownership
- Why Trump Is Just a Symptom
- Contradictions of Capitalism (also multipart, where I look at examples of how our culture displays the contradictions of capitalism in plain sight)
- How Capitalism Waters Down Sports
- Addressing "Brocialism"
- I'll also talk about other shit I care about, like traveling, sports, philosophy and culture.
- Marx: Lessons From The Man (multipart where I talk about excerpts from Marx's work)
- The Plight of Both Sexism: Why Feminism and "Meninism" Must Give Way to Socialism
This isn't going to be some niche channel where I discuss theory no one understands in the mainstream. I want to reach people with sentiment any average joe can understand. Hopefully that gives you an idea of what I'm trying to accomplish.
I haven't made all of these yet, but I've begun to. But all in all friends, I'm asking for help and suggestions about any other topics you'd like me to talk about. I'd also welcome tips about production, as I'm an amateur at this all the way. I'm asking for any help or tips you can give, although I'm not saying I'll necessarily use them I will appreciate all I can get. By the way, if anyone wants to see an example of other work I've done I have three published pieces in the bunkermag under "CagyProletarian". I just want to do my best in this moment that I personally can in the collective effort to hopefully one day bring about socialism or at least the beginning of it. Thanks for reading.