In the old days, movies were mostly entertainment with a bit of social mind control sprinkled in. But our skills at movie-making kept improving along with our mind control skills. In 2020, a movie like Joker can rewire an entire nation into seeing things in its frame.
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Your brain is a pattern-recognition machine, which probably helps to keep you alive, but it also makes you programmable. If I feed you the same pattern often enough, it becomes a "fact" to you. CNN and FOX News feed their audiences different patterns.
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I'm willing to bet 90% of the protestors have seen Joker. It is so powerful and well-made that it bounces around in your brain and burrows in, forming a dominant go-to pattern for your thinking.
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Can one movie nudge a young person into violence and anarchy? A bad movie can't. Even a good movie can't do that. But Joker can. That movie is next level, persuasion-wise.
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I don't blame movies for how people act because we can't have a social system that absolves people of responsibility. That's my legal and philosophical opinion. The trained persuader in me assumed reality would imitate the movie as soon as I saw it.
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As I often say, humans probably don't have brains that evolved (or were designed?) to understand reality, but you can choose a filter on reality that does the best job of predicting. The persuasion filter saw this coming from miles away. I'll bet
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At least for those who took the red pill.
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I never got into the Matrix but the Butterfly Effect is quite real!
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It doesn't "re-wire" initially, rather re-contextualize what the ego will "juice" for primary or secondary gain usually importance or relevance. Which many people are lacking and then will "re-wire" with enough repetition.
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I e often theorized that Disney princess movies have the ability of persuading young boys to want to be princesses. That for a small group of boys and girls these movies can rewire the mind to want to be a different gender.
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