reflection not direction

REFLECTION NOT DIRECTION

One of the myths you constantly hear is that Hollywood is a den of vipers intent on seducing you into acting against your nature, trying to get you to turn LibTard.  If you watch too much entertainment you will soon become a tree hugging sex changing pillow biting Hilary voting welfare distributing gun hating progressive.  It is easy to agree with this since liberals are basically scum of the earth and deserve to be placed on the Lamp Post List.

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But I don’t think this is true.  I think this myth comes from the same people who fall for the lure of religion ( there is nothing wrong with religion, from the standpoint of community and culture, group cohesion and tribal identity.  But it is nothing more than a matter of blind acceptance without proof behind it, just as joining the liberal or conservative political movement is.  All rely on faith alone ).  The same people that believe in a divine being on faith alone are asking you to believe that the TV has content that will tempt and sway you.  It might sway THEM, being the sort to blindly accept, but are we all like that?  I think that is rather insulting.

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Granted, most people have a poor record of thinking rationally.  And even the smartest amongst us have blind spots big enough to let a semi trailer through ( “I are a scientist.  My bestest buddies think climate change is real.  I’ll believe too!” ).  But at least not all of us are blind to our mental failings.  The standard Guru Atop The Mountain claims TV will waste your life and rot your brain.  Hey, what about the jobs most of us have?  How much different is that?  That’s different because you are being “productive”?  Really?  Every last one of us burns extra petroleum in our so called job.  We consume, we don’t produce.

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No, what we do is stay busy so that we can pretend we are a productive unit of our tribe.  But if every civilization is involved in resource overexploitation to defeat all other groups from gaining the upper hand, than we all just consume to survive, and have our entire existence as a species.  No one is saying only one schmuck should work and the others sit around in leisure, but don’t confuse activity with production.  That is just capitalism propaganda.  We might work hard, but at the core of all work is using up resources until they are gone.

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I’m NOT saying we should sit around and be a vegetable in front of the tube all day.  I’m saying sitting at a desk all day makes us feel better but it is little different other that we’ve reach a self imposed benchmark and congratulate ourselves.  But, Big Picture, all we’ve done is be compensated by the elite for your role in consuming more energy.  I’m also NOT saying Make Work or Busy Work isn’t something we shouldn’t do.  It is pointless, but not doing so is more pointless.  Just don’t throw a congratulatory party for yourself just yet.  You think you are better than the Welfare Leisure Class because you consume more resources faster. 

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Anyway-damn, why do you let me get off track so badly?-the same people that think watching TV makes your weak will bendable by evil people yet who are easily manipulated by religion, they also seem to think the pinko environmentalists control the content of movies and television to indoctrinate us into their belief system.  I’m not saying that propaganda doesn’t work, because it can very easily.  I’m claiming that Hollywood represents society as a whole, mirroring the mores and culture.  It does not have an agenda.  We all hear stories about how conservatives are blacklisted in liberal Hollywood.  How political correctness is preached and can corrupt us.

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Really?  The military and your corporate job and, politicians and schools, all are solid unwavering bastions of Political Correctness which takes what Hollywood is dishing out and exponentially magnifies this.  If anything, compared to the real life we are all stuck in, Hollywood is LESS liberal or PC.  Hollywood is just a sounding board for the current reality, and in fact mutes that in an effort to get the great unwashed poor masses to part with their entertainment dollars.  Blacks were given jobs because of their color rather than by merit and it took Hollywood YEARS before the current rash of “Black gals were the true hero’s rather than the astronauts” bullspit.  It was generations between the courts handing out No Fault divorces like they were candy and the meme of Bad Dad Good Mom Always became a staple.

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Hollywood catches up, they are not the vanguard.  We heard the same “Hollywood is the PC Propagandists” long ago, you just had to substitute “PC” with “communists”.  Sometimes it was “Jews” instead.  All that is wishful thinking.  Americans are some of the greediest, most shallow materialistic idiots on earth.  EVERYTHING is about the money.  And no one voluntarily loses money for ideology.  They will screw each other over, those of the same political bent, for more money.  There is no conspiracy.  Just go back and watch a 1980 movie.  They were about escapism from the new, new a dozen years ago, wave of crime let loose upon the land.

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Go watch “Death Wish 2”. It is on Vudu free with a commercial or two.  First, it was by the Dynamic Hebrew Duo of Golan & Globus-spelling is perhaps off here, going by memory.  They were “proof” that Jews were trying to control Hollywood.  If you read “The Spotlight”, the newspaper for Populists back then, they were the real menace, not the nuclear equipped Soviets.  Second, those two were known for schlock films back then, yet they hold up as far better than the average today.  How sad is that?  Third, do you notice any Social Engineering propaganda in the flick?  No.  It just mirrored the Times Just Past.

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If you are like me, you can’t go back and watch much past 1960 ( I think “The Bridge Over The River Kwai” was the oldest I’ve enjoyed, about 1958 or so ).  The entire culture was different than mine.  Their mannerisms and projected values are alien.  And I love films from the 80’s.  Why?  They remind me of happier, simpler times.  Sure, chock full of blatant commercialism and consumerism, but also devoid of a tyrannical federal government and a world where corporations killed small business.  The last decade of freedom.  They are a mirror to their times ( with suitable lag, of course ).  No one was losing money on trying to turn people into a future utopia, they were assuring money by putting reality, current reality, into a better light.  Not just crime, but vigilantes fighting crime.  Not just teen angst but angst with happy endings.

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Hollywood is full of simpletons cashing in on entertainment, nothing more.  The actors are Pretty People that are all looks and no brains.  Of COURSE liberalism appeals to them.  It is a movement dedicated to a fantasy façade masking ugly reality.  Just like their jobs.  Liberals might be wishing we were more like them, but money comes first. They hate conservatives because they wish to avoid reality.   Any liberal propaganda you decipher is merely social reality from last decade or earlier.  Just think about it.

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