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 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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A shame that one side rules Hollywood.
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Risky Business: Was it good or bad for the University of Illinois? Discuss...
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How about Three Billboards? [sorry about the spoiler] Police station gets burned down with no consequences there.
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The creator of Joker understood darkness and hopelessness. But I don't think the movie created hopelessness. It simply described the feeling accurately. It no more caused the unrests, than the movie Pandemic caused the coronavirus pandemic, it simply portrayed pandemic correctly.
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