One must seek to understand the pressing issues of our time, but without the baggage and distortion of the pre-revolutionary mindset.  the society that fails to embrace and elevate the bicycle will fail repeatedly.  and worse still, their conceptual blinders, bred into them by media and capitalism, will prevent them from seeing the true source of their mistakes.  hence they are doomed to repeat ever greater disasters; a downward spiral, from great and lofty heights to the mean and low pits of mediocrity.

you can break this cycle through education.  begin here:

a marxist analysis of the decline of the simpsons.

http://theproles.blogspot.com/2007/02/marxist-analysis-of-simpsons.html