We got rid of cable a couple years ago and I have been rewatching some old TV series from the 80s & 90s..... and I gotta tell you, there was a lot of subversive "programming" going on, even back then.
I just roll my eyes, like, here is another "special episode" where the main character is a total racist or anti-gay but has an epiphany during the show and apologizes for being ignorant and everyone lives happily ever after. It is/way so blatant and disgusting.
There is no entertainment... it is all just propaganda meant to shift the Overton Window. To make society accept a little more subversion every week, to sway public opinion... to wreck traditions and families.
Propaganda is perhaps too strong of a word, but all stories, to a degree, are indoctrination. Every story advances the values and agenda of its creator, whether intended or not. Some of those values we don't think about because they're near universal, such as, "helping orphans is good" or "eating babies is bad." Others we don't think about because we share those values. Anything that promotes capitalism and liberty as good pushes an agenda just like woke nonsense (although it's probably better made). We also might not notice because in better made stories, such values aren't so much pushed as they are just assumed to be true.
So yes, all films with any coherent plot either pushed or assumed certain beliefs. We just don't notice either because we shared those beliefs, or it was done so subtly that there was never a chance to notice. Nothingberg has a good point about watching critically: if you want to see it (and not everyone does), it's possible to see the beliefs being pushed by any film. Just ask, "What values are being stated," as well as, "What values are assumed to be true?"
Umm... those movies were war propaganda to get men to willing join the service and sacrifice their lives. Movies are social engineering showing people how to behave... monkey see... monkey do.
Whether or not the film industry has always been a force of evil is debatable. But I'd wager that it has been evil since day one.
Fables always dramatized a lesson. Slaves in Attica were forced to attend the Greek plays... not their entertainment but for their instruct on how to be a good slave.
These takeaways are often below the level of analytical thought.
The idea that anything rose to popularity purely due to its entertainment value and not its social engineering value is the ridiculous take.
Yes, of course there are lots of movies that I like. I'm not saying that you shouldn't watch them, or like them. I'm just saying that by and large, movies are used for social engineering and are not merely entertainment.
That is a tweet from one of my favorite producers. He was the showrunner for Spartacus. Turns out he is a total lefty. They are reacting to the Texas abortion ban. They are saying the quiet part out loud and admitting that they use the medium of entertainment to shape popular opinion... in this case... murdering babies.
Are the movies from the 1940s and onwards free from this kind of evil? Joseph McCarthy would disagree with you. He accused Hollywood of making movies that created sympathy for communists. They accused him of being delusionally paranoid.
Considering where we are, I'd say he was right on the money.
I totally concur that there are great movies out there that serve as great entertainment... but that entertainment is often the sugar coating on the poisoned pill.
Think of the 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon, which first made us visually watch a rocket shoot from the earth to the moon. Even now with SpaceX they are using the same types of cartoon graphics and imagery.
Another strange example of mass propaganda is the Disney documentary White Wilderness, where they first made the claim that hoards of lemmings will jump to their deaths over cliffs. For some reason, from that one made-up source, people believe that forever and will never doubt it.
How about that "special episode" in Different Strokes about the neighbor that would touch boys in the no-no place. I wonder how that episode would be received now?
We got rid of cable a couple years ago and I have been rewatching some old TV series from the 80s & 90s..... and I gotta tell you, there was a lot of subversive "programming" going on, even back then.
I just roll my eyes, like, here is another "special episode" where the main character is a total racist or anti-gay but has an epiphany during the show and apologizes for being ignorant and everyone lives happily ever after. It is/way so blatant and disgusting.
There is no entertainment... it is all just propaganda meant to shift the Overton Window. To make society accept a little more subversion every week, to sway public opinion... to wreck traditions and families.
Propaganda is perhaps too strong of a word, but all stories, to a degree, are indoctrination. Every story advances the values and agenda of its creator, whether intended or not. Some of those values we don't think about because they're near universal, such as, "helping orphans is good" or "eating babies is bad." Others we don't think about because we share those values. Anything that promotes capitalism and liberty as good pushes an agenda just like woke nonsense (although it's probably better made). We also might not notice because in better made stories, such values aren't so much pushed as they are just assumed to be true.
So yes, all films with any coherent plot either pushed or assumed certain beliefs. We just don't notice either because we shared those beliefs, or it was done so subtly that there was never a chance to notice. Nothingberg has a good point about watching critically: if you want to see it (and not everyone does), it's possible to see the beliefs being pushed by any film. Just ask, "What values are being stated," as well as, "What values are assumed to be true?"
Umm... those movies were war propaganda to get men to willing join the service and sacrifice their lives. Movies are social engineering showing people how to behave... monkey see... monkey do.
Whether or not the film industry has always been a force of evil is debatable. But I'd wager that it has been evil since day one.
Fables always dramatized a lesson. Slaves in Attica were forced to attend the Greek plays... not their entertainment but for their instruct on how to be a good slave.
These takeaways are often below the level of analytical thought.
The idea that anything rose to popularity purely due to its entertainment value and not its social engineering value is the ridiculous take.
Hollywood has been a den of pedophiles since the beginning.
Yes, of course there are lots of movies that I like. I'm not saying that you shouldn't watch them, or like them. I'm just saying that by and large, movies are used for social engineering and are not merely entertainment.
Case in point:
https://i.imgur.com/4sVO6fz.jpeg
That is a tweet from one of my favorite producers. He was the showrunner for Spartacus. Turns out he is a total lefty. They are reacting to the Texas abortion ban. They are saying the quiet part out loud and admitting that they use the medium of entertainment to shape popular opinion... in this case... murdering babies.
Are the movies from the 1940s and onwards free from this kind of evil? Joseph McCarthy would disagree with you. He accused Hollywood of making movies that created sympathy for communists. They accused him of being delusionally paranoid.
Considering where we are, I'd say he was right on the money.
I totally concur that there are great movies out there that serve as great entertainment... but that entertainment is often the sugar coating on the poisoned pill.
Godfather best movie ever
And sopranos awesome and the wire once they got off the docks
Top ten list, pls!
CIA and Hollywood connection https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cia+and+hollywood&t=hy&va=g&ia=web
cigarette companies and hollywood https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cigarette+companies+and+hollywood&t=hy&va=g&ia=web
Think of the 1902 silent film A Trip to the Moon, which first made us visually watch a rocket shoot from the earth to the moon. Even now with SpaceX they are using the same types of cartoon graphics and imagery.
Another strange example of mass propaganda is the Disney documentary White Wilderness, where they first made the claim that hoards of lemmings will jump to their deaths over cliffs. For some reason, from that one made-up source, people believe that forever and will never doubt it.
How about that "special episode" in Different Strokes about the neighbor that would touch boys in the no-no place. I wonder how that episode would be received now?
Especially as it was a white guy touching black boys?