here are two documentaries about NFTs. the first one is about 20 minutes and is a succinct explanation.
the second is a ~2 hour long documentary of sorts diving into the history of the rise of crypto and what precipitated it, and how it lead into NFTs.
you should understand what these are. it’s truly, literally, no exaggeration, nothing. you aren’t even buying an image, or a video, or anything. all the images are is visual representations of a position on a database. a database is just a list. and you just. reserve a spot on that list basically. you aren’t buying ownership over an image, or anything really, aside from the position on the database.
On this day, 27 January 2010, US libertarian socialist historian, activist and former World War II air force bombardier Howard Zinn, died aged 87. Through his extensive writings on history from a grassroots perspective, especially his seminal People’s History of the United States, he helped inspire a new generation in the concept of history from below, including us at Working Class History.
Zinn observed that “Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”
And while his work does examine huge rebellions and brave deeds, he also stressed the importance of how we act in our everyday lives: “We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.”
If you haven’t read People’s History yet it is highly recommended. You can get it here from an independent bookstore: https://bookshop.org/a/80203/9780062397348 https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1908650032653471/?type=3
The school unanimously voted to ban it due to the use of curse words like “goddamn” and brief appearances of nude women.
Kinda thought that their decision would have had something to do with the intentionally upsetting depictions of mass murder, but evidently mild cursing and cartoon nipples take precedent.
lbr, the the mild swears and brief nudity were almost certain just a smokescreen for the fact that the subject of the book makes them uncomfortable
Almost certainly. The book itself does draw parallels between the narrator’s family’s persecution by the Nazis and the racism aimed towards African American people for example (there’ s a scene where the narrator even points out to his dad, a concentration camp survivor, how it’s kind of hypocritical for him to be racist towards black people considering his own history, only for his dad to get angry at the comparison), so chances are there were at least some folks on the school board who didn’t want any of the kids to see the comparisons on display in the text itself.
As the comedian Dave Anthony puts it, the whole “critical race theory“ thing in the States at the moment is basically parents who are openly racist at home not wanting their kids to learn about how, say, the language that their parents use at home is bad due to the historical context. So urge to ban kids from learning about historical racism is done out of a fear that their kids would realise that their parents are BAD PEOPLE.
