8:15:24

“The upside is that, for the first time since I got online, I feel excited about the counter-culture outside the bubble of the Left. I keep telling my daughter and anyone else who feels too afraid to create something new in this suffocating climate of fear: write it. In a few years, it will be in high demand…For various reasons, the Film Twitter hive mind has been coming for me for years. I can’t shut up. I’m a contrarian. I push back. It’s my own fault. At the same time, I could sense a bottleneck in entertainment writing and Oscar coverage, which I reported on for years. Someone has to be willing to tell the truth…The problem with the Oscar coverage now, even though no one reading this will care, is that it is under the thumb of publicists and the studios, so it has to be generally on board with all of the pandering. And that makes for dull content. Sorry, but it does. Good writing means telling the truth. But if you can’t even see it, how can you write it? Much of the time, the only thing driving their content is this cancel culture nonsense—where what people think is a story. Thought crimes are a story. Destroying people is a story. Why? Because they have nothing else. I believe in telling the truth, no matter where it takes you. Does it mean you are now human garbage to the people with all of the power? So be it. I can’t do the other thing. I can’t lie and pander. I can’t pile on. I can’t dehumanize. This is where I’ve landed. Knowing I am healthier in my mind and heart makes me feel better Hollywood is collapsing. No one cares about the movies anymore. Hardly anyone watches them. Why? Because they can’t tell the truth anymore, not even to themselves. But as long as they have a fresh supply of people to accuse and purge, they can pretend they’re still the good guys.”

-Sasha Stone

I can’t do the “other thing” either. And yes, Hollywood is collapsing. So is everything else. People who pretend otherwise, or who cling to this fraudulent crap culture/world are perhaps sadder than the ones who produce and push this shit in the first place. I have no patience for cowards, conformists, followers, and careerists anymore.