1. The fact that a huge amount of time is spent discussing the political ramifications of the sexuality, ethnicity, and so on of actors in what are, effectively, children’s entertainments is a damning indictment of our situation.
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3. The “politics” of mass entertainment is just an extension of the gossip industry, although conducted in a vaguely moralised way. However, it may have an unexpected power bc these modern myths are very, very important to some people.
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4. For example, a man in his late 30s described something I said about politics as being like Thanos (a character I had to look up just, but am vaguely aware of from Twitter). In other words, people still take their cues & thinking from mass entertainment quite late in life.
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5. I can’t claim any superiority here, since I used to go along with it as and acceptable middle ground, but I gave up years ago. The point is that alterations to mass entertainment can make people very angry; it’s the closest thing they have to community.
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6. Fiddle with the bread and circuses—as the left does with mass entertainment—and you may find some unpleasant side effects
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7. The left doesn’t understand that violent action films were used to sublimate certain forms of ethnic self-expression in defence of liberal democracy (i.e. you can be a fascist sadist like James Bond in defence of libe democracy). What happens when you remove the sublimation?
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