the collapse will be televised

THE COLLAPSE WILL BE TELEVISED

A lot of minions are a bit older than I.  They are from a different era, the one prior to the collapse.  I am a child OF the collapse, never knowing any different.  To me, this is just normal.  I can read of that vanished era but I can only conceptualize it.  I can’t actually know what things were like back before the Kraken was released.  Which means I can’t really watch movies made much before I was born.  Television isn’t so bad, for some reason.  Hitchcock and Twilight Zone are easily digested.  Movies not so much.

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The movies are from a foreign country, which the US was to me prior to the late 60’s.  Obviously things didn’t flip from one day to the next.  I grew up only as the cultural was gradually fading out, not after it was replaced.  I can easily relate to how life was, having a taste of it, but it was residual rather than central.  Front and center to my experience and consciousness has always been the center not holding.  Collapse being just a daily occurrence.  I accept it as gospel truth because that is all I ever knew.

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The faint whiff of a life before the collapse was just that, actions of retreating troops.  I saw, first, degradation and only second people trying to keep a fading lifestyle.  Not that I had any knowledge of this at the time, or even until recently.  Growing up, I of course bought into the propaganda that the old people were desperately trying to hold on to the old, bad ways of doing things.  Why, it was simply Wunderbar that gals were free and Negroes were equal and yada, yada.  How could I know any different until all those freed prisoners had attacked me?

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Now, I don’t take my upbringing and use it as an excuse.  Yes, I’m cynical and hateful and course and not very religious.  But that is just me.  I don’t blame all the new TV or movies for that.  I understand all the old time movies had a different civility to them, a traditional way of acting.  No cussing or acting badly to your fellows ( of course, once they betrayed social trust they were fair game ).  I don’t dislike them because of it, I just can’t watch them because in my reality that simply isn’t how people act. 

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Was it a better time and a better way of doing things?  Certainly.  But the mannerisms of that time don’t resonate with me.  I can’t pretend I like them because I agree with the message.  I don’t embrace Japanese culture even though they are a homogenous tribe.  A peaceful unified village-that is a life I’d love.  But I don’t care about the Japanese even if they themselves live in that village.  It is the same with pre-Jim America.  A foreign country.  I don’t LIKE post Sixties Collapse culture, but it is the only one I know.

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There is of course comfort in the devil you know.  That is why moving to a foreign country isn’t for me.  If I was older, and I ONLY knew pre-Jim America as normal, perhaps I’d be willing to flee to a similar culture.  And all that is long form to introduce the topic of Hollywood propaganda.  We look at the crap coming out of Hollywood, and we all get offended.  “Movies were BETTER back in my day”.  No, they weren’t better.  They were different.  There is a big difference.  They were better for YOU, and nothing wrong with that.

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They were different in that they portrayed another culture, pre-Jim America.  They certainly weren’t better entertainment.  Again, they were DIFFERENT.  Quality has always been up and down the charts, influenced by talent and money.  Okay, for instance, a movie where people sing.  Oh. My. DOG!  People are SINGING!  Why can’t they talk?  Do people sing to each other in real life as a form of communication?  Or tap dance?  NO!  I’d imagine that these scenes were well made.  You can’t just save money by having a bunch of monkeys stumbling over each other.  But it was NOT entertaining to me.

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If you are older, perhaps you don’t think bathroom humor is all that funny.  You aren’t entertained.  No matter how well done, such as in Dumb And Dumber.  We both think different things are better or worse, but that is because of our cultural filter.  Hollywood has always had lots of low budget and high budget items and high and low quality ( mixed and matched, of course.  And when I say Hollywood I also include New York TV-it is shorthand for MOST is manufactured there, or was, prior to recent cost cutting non-Union production ).

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I am not a commie liberal that was indoctrinated rather than educated.  I do NOT believe everything in human nature is due to nurture.  I don’t think MOST is due to genetics ( nature ).  I think far more is nature than nurture, but you cannot discount culture.  The majority of humans are dumb as dirt, hardwired in certain ways and culture directs them to act appropriately to survive local conditions.  They drift through life without trying to use their brain.  Like a blond with a nice rack.  If it wasn’t for culture imprinted on them by society, most people would kill themselves off from stupidity.

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Your childhood does play a lot into your teaching and beliefs.  You cannot have it any other way, because even the few smart people around are largely influenced by it.  For instance, how many smart people believe stupid crap like feminism or Gore Warming?  Those  only sound stupid once you’ve applied some research with some thinking on the matter, and if “smart” people don’t do that, how much do you think our upbringing misinforms us?  A LOT.  Not that there is anything wrong with cultural imprinting-it is normal and necessary. 

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My point here is that most of us don’t think about most of what we were taught.  We just accept it.  And yes, movies and TV are a big part of that training.  But here is the thing.  Movies and TV are a business.  That is ALL they are.  And they reflect their audience.  Because the audience PAYS the bills.  You want to believe that Hollywood is an agent provocateur, an insidious outside force that is molding our minds.  You see this crap all the time. “Jews are evil collectivists and want to kill the American culture and they control our thoughts through political correctness”.

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Well, okay, I don’t recall exactly what they say.  But Jews are blamed for our cultural disintegration.  For brainwashing us.  Sure, because we all know Jews are smarter than gentiles, right?  Well, since we all love stereotypes, why not “Jews are the world bankers and only care about money”.  If they only care about money, then…? What?  They LOSE money on films to get us brainwashed?  I don’t think so.  You can’t have it both ways.  Are they losing money to control us or making money entertaining us?  Stop pounding squares into circles!  Not everything fits one paradigm.

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That shiny screen isn’t evil, it doesn’t exist to control you.  It is there because people in all times and culture want to minimize work and maximize leisure ( except the Puritans, and look at all the trouble that has caused ) and be entertained.  Hollywood can only entertain the most people by REFLECTING their thoughts, beliefs, desires and prejudices.  Hollywood, I am very sad to say, is JUST a mirror.  You don’t like what you see, I guess it is natural to find sinister forces to blame.  I have much more to blather.  Continued tomorrow.

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