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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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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Just came out on HBO a couple weeks ago too, widely spreading it's reach.
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How easily people slip into the ecstacy of making things worse. It is near impossible to make art that truly celebrates aliveness.
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