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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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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It may back fire. It is exhausting to watch.
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The enjoyment itself represents that the brain thinks it is accumulating examples of cause and effect. So if you resist that, you won't enjoy the movie. Highly processed movies are jam packed with fake cause and effect. So you have the choice: be manipulated or don't enjoy
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Definitely programmable . One of the first to put science to this was Russian Theatre directorStanislavski . He wrote the books that made Brando . We are all method actors nowhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislavski%27s_system …
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But we can control it. The problem is that if you DO control it you will have to stop absorbing all the fake information. And if you do that, you will stop enjoying it.
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