Beef advertisement: 'Real food for real people'
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A conservative American TV ad with countryside imagery and beef: 'Beef. Real food for real people.' Žižek cites it as a perfect emblem of populist anti-tech rhetoric that masks its own reliance on technological sophistication.
As told 2
“"Beef. Real food for real people."”
“'Beef: real food for real people.' The subtle message was: 'Do we really have to go through this over-regulated hedonism?'”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Lukas Dhont1Christopher Wylie1Martin Seligman1Jeremiah Glick1Spike Lee1Dante Alighieri1Louis Farrakhan1Samo Tomšič1
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A conservative American TV ad with countryside imagery and beef: 'Beef. Real food for real people.' Žižek cites it as a perfect emblem of populist anti-tech rhetoric that masks its own reliance on technological sophistication., illustrating ideology,identity politics
A right-wing New York beef advertisement showing a barbecue and country singing with the slogan 'Beef: real food for real people' functions as populist protest against over-regulated hedonism, an unconscious reaction to the hyper-disciplined consumerism that officially commands enjoyment., illustrating regulated consumerism,surplus enjoyment,populist reaction to hedonism