But that's why the reveal works so well, I think It's the repressed, achingly earnest little-girl version of herself that she's been trying to hide and built a wall around for years since the bombs fell Something she never showed anyone, not even her brother, until Vision
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And the obvious response is "Who the fuck am I specifically harming I'm not fucking 'brainwashing' anybody into thinking anything by listening to this music *myself* If I'm the one being brainwashed, I have the right to do that And I like it"
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And like They're right But their critics are also right If media never had any impact on anything then the world wouldn't be the way it is, and yet it's asking a whole fucking lot sometimes to ask people to give up something that gives them joy over seemingly abstract concerns
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I dunno, I think that as shallow as the writing may have been forced to be by being an MCU product there's absolutely something potent that resonated with a lot of people here Dreams don't die easy We don't *change* from our childhood selves so much as just add layers on top
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I dunno if this is intentional on the WandaVision writers' part I *do* know the FaWS writers were thinking about this stuff, hence the one Flag-Smasher who sheepishly admits he was a fan of Captain America as a kid (setting him up for his ironic fate)
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But like that one shot from the WandaVision penultimate episode (the true finest hour of the show) will stick with me a long, long time More than the "Love persevering" line That shot of the unexploded Stark Industries shell in the rubble, right next to the still-playing TV
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The blinking red light telling Wanda and Pietro they're going to die at any moment, while the Dick van Dyke show still merrily plays Wanda's favorite episode -- the one where Dick has a silly nightmare of his world falling apart but he wakes up and everything's fine
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The American Dream and the American Reality, side-by-side America's broken promise, in one shot
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These are the two things America gave the world They literally give you *both of them* at the same time, served on the same tray And you wonder why people's attitudes about this country are so fucked up? You wonder why people have no chill?
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I don't fully stand by everything I said when I wrote this years ago But I will stand by the hot take that I don't think "native-born" Americans will ever understand the "American Dream" the way many immigrants do Some things are only defined in negative space
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The American Dream is everything the American Reality isn't, after all By definition It's what Martin Luther King called an "uncashed check", the accounting discrepancy between what is owed and what has been paid, accruing interest through the generations
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And goddamn is that one hell of a yawning gap Maybe some of you are so used to hearing it as background noise it doesn't register anymore But those are some wild fucking promises to make people if you never intend to keep them There's consequences for doing that
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From the high-minded abstractions -- freedom, dignity, equality, opportunity -- to those saturated colorful images of the concrete life they're supposed to represent beamed onto everyone's TVs Those beautiful homes, those clean, safe streets
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A decent job with a fair wage for an honest day's work A new land and a fresh start where anyone can decide who they want to be and make themselves into it Forty acres and a goddamn mule A fucking chicken in every fucking pot
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And the conservative politicians look at our changing world full of resentment and conflict and anger and think that means "the American Dream is dead"? All that negativity is because the Dream *didn't die*
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That crimson rage is the Dream still pulsing hard beneath the skin of every radicalized "anti-American" It's having a vision of how life could be -- of how you were *promised* life *would* be if you put in your hours and took your lumps -- that *didn't* die
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No matter how many bland, polite men in business suits looked at you from across your desk and told you it was never yours to begin with Something they tried to bury but *would not die*
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That play about the desperate, possibly doomed struggle for a working-class Black family to get the damn house in the suburbs, A Raisin in the Sun, is named for a line from Langston Hughes' poem "Harlem", whose first line is "What happens to a dream deferred?"
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It's that whole galaxy-brain thing Foucauldian thing about how every seemingly subversive text has a reading where it upholds the status quo and yet also every conservative text invites a subversive reading
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The cheesy commercial propaganda they try to feed you to tell you everything is okay and no war needs to be fought refutes itself The contrast between the lie and the reality awakens a greater rage than before the lie was told
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The cheesy sitcoms that were intended (insofar as there was any coherent intention behind moneymaking media moguls pumping this shit out) to make good happy prolefed citizens awakened the Scarlet Witch
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You know what Langston Hughes said about what happens to dreams deferred, and all... "What is a revolution, if not a dream persevering?"
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