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Daniel Lopez's avatar

Great article Keith. Nothing demonstrates the bizarrity of the situation more clearly than this interview on BBC Breakfast: https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1910281285798396237

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Another fantastic article.

A few points. Firstly, the shear volume of this world-view affirming neoliberal propaganda is basically infinite. It is created faster than anybody can keep up with, and crosses all mediums. It has not slowed for lack of commercial success, and has generally very high budgets and production values.

Secondly, there is a pervasive myth called "get woke go broke". It has been repeated like a mantra for a certain film and culture review slop-flinging sector of cultural critics, such as Nerdrotic and his panel guests, or Jamie at the Quartering. Its basically a mainstream phrase at this point, even among the apolitical and moderate. This is a myth, because the intention of all of this propaganda is to control the culture and utilize repetition of certain themes, such as the dopey white father, the benevolent ethnic, or the girl boss.

By controlling the culture and the Overton Window, not to mention constantly rewriting history, control of a large enough percentage of the population is achieved. This mass of plebs is often comprised of the informationally bereft leftist, the neurotic, the childless old feminist, and the usual rather detestable and angry spit-talkers. As Keith mentioned.

But it does give them a unified symbology and set of reified beliefs. It allows them to out-group dissidents to the system, and often violently suppress them, as we can see in pro-life groups, the or the now perhaps slightly ashamed white BLM supporters.

"Get Woke go Broke" is a fallacy because the intention was never to make money- that was a very nice side benefit during the century or so that Hollywood and their ilk controlled the entertainment scene. We are now sliding back into an era, maybe we can call it the Greenblattian era, where elites just ham-fistedly belch out vitriol and threats, while providing what is obviously propaganda that is tiring and dull. Good old-fashioned propaganda.

It all points to loss of control for The Regime, but lets disabuse ourselves of the idea that the propaganda itself will stop because it loses money, now. The Beeb or Hollywood can lose billions up front, it still allows for the theft of trillions on the back-end. It also provides moral justification for the increasing persecution of populists, and what is looking like a majority of the population, the NATIVE population, at least of a growing list of countries, from Canada to Ireland.

Interestingly, China has officially given the middle-finger to faltering efforts of Hollywood in their country as part of the trade war, recently. That policy may have some of the most interesting outcomes. Hollywood was supposed to expand into that market to make up the losses for its failing products at home. As well as losing money, people are just able to see this propaganda for what it is, and reject it more forcefully. Its efforts are becoming risable, and counter-productive. But I doubt that lack of financial success will slay the beast. It has to be replaced by a better competitor.

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