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Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.
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Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.

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PhD, Texas A&M, 2015. Software worker. Data nerd. My views are my own and never represent any employer.

Winona, MN, USA
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    1. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

      The principles of fiction, in reaction to the present times, by yours truly: 1. Fiction should satisfy an audience. If it does that and the audience is not also motivated to do actual harm, then the fiction is done.

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    2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

      2. Qualifying that,while fiction should avoid actual harm,authors and audiences alike should understand that very little fiction brings itself about in reality. Even the most didactic *and successful* fiction - two things that rarely go together - rarely causes direct realization

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    3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

      Case in point on this would be the works of Ayn Rand, which to the extent they are influential on actual behaviors, they have done so through happening to appeal to very specific individuals who then wield power to enforce their interpretations of it

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    4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

      The fact that self-identifying Objectivists are basically everywhere and that very few of them know the entirety of what’s in Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead, and that I’m fairly confident as a left leaning liberal I could beat most of them at Rand trivia, is highly relevant

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    5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

      Orwell is another good example of this, as my friends have discussed on their TLs a lot. Most people have only a vague idea of Orwell’s politics when referencing him.

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      Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

      Even leaving aside the authorial intent, most assholes who cite Fight Club or the Matrix barely know the literal surface plots of these works

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        2. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          2a. To the extent that Tumblr kid culture is right about anything, it’s that the one primary rhetorical function of fiction as a political force is to normalize things. This is hard to predict and usually only occurs successfully as part of a propaganda effort.

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        3. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          2b. On the whole, most fiction is highly unsuccessful at normalizing any of its values. To go back to my raw data driven model of the world, let me list off the core values as I understand them of the top movies in recent history

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        4. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Avengers: Endgame: to the extent there is an ideology here, you could say a certain technocratic ideal is promoted through heroizing Stark, but above all if the film has a “message” it’s “you can’t sacrifice massive numbers of people for your agenda” and, well, not normalized.

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        5. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Star Wars: The Force Awakens suggests that violent resistance to fascism, including dissent within the ranks of those who are ordered to enforce it, is morally just. This is not happening.

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        6. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Avengers: Infinity War has the same message as Endgame. Again, people are perfectly happy thinking like Thanos. (Could Thanos have been taken as a hero, like we saw with Fight Club? I’ll get into that later.)

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        7. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Jurassic World has messages in favor of animal rights and not militarizing things, and generally about corporate exploitation being bad. None of those things are politically ascendant.

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        8. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          The Lion King is, again, about deposing an unjust ruler who ascended through deceit and evil. This is not happening

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        9. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          The Avengers doesn’t have a coherent message I can point to, but people certainly didn’t take Nick Fury’s decision to not sacrifice New York in the hope of saving the rest of the nation to heart.

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        10. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Frozen II argues that we must interrogate whether we’ve benefited from colonialism. Some folks say it doesn’t go hard enough on that; fair, but people aren’t doing that at all.

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        11. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Avengers: Age of Ultron suggests it would be a mistake to trust techbros to write an algorithm to control our lives. On the contrary, we have decided we want to absolutely do that.

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        12. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Black Panther suggests that Black people deserve sovereignty and independent legal rights, should have a choice about whether to cooperate with law enforcement, and should resolve disputes within the Black community without needing white people’s help.

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        13. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          These are all things that are happening to one degree or another, but definitely in no way because of the movie.

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        14. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Finally, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part II suggests that if an existential threat arises to everyone but especially minorities, people should resist bureaucrats who try to interfere with addressing that threat, using violence where those bureaucrats are collaborating

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        15. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          This, too, is not a thing that is happening. Media is not successfully didactic. Most of the films we talk about that supposedly got an idea into culture and led to it being adopted are cult films in any case, and they are nearly all subject to interpretation/selective reading

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        16. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Like, it’s text in Fight Club that Project Mayhem is *bad*. The book *may* endorse the “men’s movement” to the extent that it suggests men have some specific problems to work through with each other, although Marla’s story indicates it’s societal or generational.

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        17. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          But Tyler is NOT the hero, the hero is the guy who shoots Tyler. It’s not a reinterpretation, it’s the surface reading. As soon as Narrator realizes he’s Tyler he sets out to stop what he’s put in motion.

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        18. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Similarly, you don’t need me or the Wachowski sisters to tell you that a person who sits down to watch THE MATRIX and comes away from it thinking that the r*d pill represents liberating men from evil female control is bringing his own baggage to the table

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        19. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          I mean, you don’t need to bring up that it’s a trans metaphor or anything! Just apply “it’s just a movie bro” basic logic and note that the villains are all dudes, all the women shown are with the rebels except for the one fake program lady, and it’s clearly just not about that

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        20. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Anyway, I'm not saying media can't have an influence over people behave, but I'm saying that simply looking at a work and saying "wow, this is saying x" doesn't mean people will take x from it and act on it, whether that's the intended meaning or not

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        21. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Ok, so 2b. The way stories are most effective at normalizing things are through portraying things as relatable. I'll grant some concessions in the following bits.

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        22. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Stories normalized the military throughout the 00s and up until the beginning of the current decade. I'm not sure how effective this normalization currently is, and sometimes suspect Millenials and Gen X are overly sensitive to it, but it's definitely real

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        23. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          I would contend that fiction in our society normalizes Christianity in various ways that mostly result from treating it as completely ordinary and normal, even when one isn't really Christian

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        24. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          brb have to talk to family will get back to this.

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        25. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          OK, can continue for a bit Fiction normalizes heterosexuality. I don't see any evidence it's successfully normalized non-heterosexuality or being trans, although I think it can ok now BRB for real

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        26. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          OK, so 3. I said fiction relates to audiences. It primarily does this by evoking emotions in them, and those emotions are going to broadly trend toward the positive *after the audience has processed them*. The actual emotions felt by the audience at the time may differ

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        27. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          Parenthetical,will address in a bit:audiences may be small, or they may be quite large! There is some media that will always have only niche appeal, but we cannot fully judge what the broad appeal of a media is from things like sales/box office, bc marketing & culture play a rule

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        28. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          *role Fiction must be understood in any case on at least four levels of abstraction before it reaches audience impact: I. The in-story emotional tenor of an event (a character’s father dies tragically)

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        29. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          II. The audience’s judgment of that emotional tenor (they disagree with the character’s actions, as he is Kylo Rea and he is stabbing Han Solo, with whom they have positive associations, but conversely, they relate to Rey and Finn’s dismay in-universe and judge it appropriate)

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        30. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          III. The audience’s actual emotional feelings as a result of the event (in this specific example, ranging from being angry at the creators for killing Han Solo, to hating the character of Kylo Ren for killing Han Solo, to *relating to* the character of Kylo Ren for same)

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        31. Dr. Ellie Lockhart. Republic serial villain.‏ @BootlegGirl 25 Aug 2020

          IV. The audience’s emotional impact from witnessing (or if it were a game, participating in) the event: objectively in the case of the canonical death of Han Solo, largely muted, possibly from the out of universe expectation that Harrison Ford would ask to be killed off

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