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From, A Gentleman In Moscow:

"Osip Ivanovich had actually mastered the English language right down to the past perfect progressive as early as 1939. But American movies still deserved careful consideration, not simply as windows into Western culture, but as unprecedented mechanisms of class repression. For with cinema, the Yanks had apparently discovered how to placate the entire working class at the cost of a nickel a week.

'Just look at their Depression', he said. 'From beginning to end it lasted ten years. An entire decade in which the Proletariat was left to fend for itself, scrounging in alleys and begging at chapel doors. If ever there had been a time for the American worker to cast off the yoke, surely that was it. But did they join their brothers-in-arms? Did they shoulder their axes and splinter the doors of the mansions? Not even for an afternoon. Instead, they shuffled to the nearest movie house, where the latest fantasy was dangled before them like a pocket watch at the end of a chain'.

Indeed.

Hollyweird is tightly intertwined with the control system just like the "news" outlets.

Cinema certainly works to placate the working class, but it also works to lie to them about history and serve them up loads of military propaganda.

DanielVogelbach wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 27, 2023 10:59 pm

Hollyweird is tightly intertwined with the control system just like the "news" outlets.

Cinema certainly works to placate the working class, but it also works to lie to them about history and serve them up loads of military propaganda.

We are in total agreement!!

Isn't that true of television shows and now the plethora of streaming services and all the other forms of passive "entertainment"? How many people read books anymore?

Sibelius Hindemith wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 28, 2023 11:40 am

Isn't that true of television shows and now the plethora of streaming services and all the other forms of passive "entertainment"? How many people read books anymore?

Do you mean 'printed media'?

The 'written' word?

I listen to books, though haven't lately

Most people just want sound bytes and dramatizations that have little to do with understanding reality. We have become a nation of spoon-fed dopes.

Sibelius Hindemith wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 28, 2023 11:40 am

Isn't that true of television shows and now the plethora of streaming services and all the other forms of passive "entertainment"? How many people read books anymore?

The written novel is a fairly modern idea itself, and it has certainly been used to plant ideas into people. However, the lazy, popcorn crunching hypnosis of movies and television are more powerful in my opinion.

The internet has also greatly increased the ability to brainwash. However, it's a double-edged sword, because it also increases the ability for everyone to share ideas and learn about reality. They aren't idiots, though. They know that the risk of allowing people to freely share ideas pales in comparison to the amount of control and influence they will gain from the tech.

Sibelius Hindemith wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 28, 2023 3:43 pm

Most people just want sound bytes and dramatizations that have little to do with understanding reality. We have become a nation of spoon-fed dopes.

100%.

The way I see it, the BIGGEST problem with the world is sheer laziness. People don't want to do ANYTHING. They sit on their asses, mesmerized by their devices, drinking the kool-aid all day long. Their memories have been reduced to a 3 second time frame. And the elites, politicians and media all know it. People have long ago forgotten that Biden is a disaster. They've forgotten history, so we're doomed to repeat it.

Short-term memory = long-term gain for the powers that be.

And again, it's mostly laziness. It's not that people are necessarily stupid, they just simply can't be bothered.