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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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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What really infuriates me about people who use, say, the language or imagery of Harry Potter to oppose Trump or the Tories is that they have no critical understanding of the source of their metaphors (not to mention the authorial prejudices). They treat is as inspired Scripture!
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1. I never liked Harry Potter, but I saw all the films to be kind to a then girlfriend (wouldn’t happen now). I also read one book, which I didn’t enjoy. Basically, you can’t help but be religious & people are religious about these things without knowing they’re religious.
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2. Worse, it’s hard to explain they are religious. The appeal lies partly in just feeling good about yourself and not making hard choices. Harry Potter is hierarchical, aristocratic & concerned with bloodlines (although in a liberal democratic way). Subverted rightism.
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