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The point is to ruin.
“Is it representation that matters, or is it selling toys? Isn’t this just another way to inject or indoctrinate the young into their way of defining this country’s ideals? Identity matters more than anything else? But especially as a way to sell stuff and not feel guilty about it?
It’s a mash of identity and narcissism, euphoria and commercialism, fame and inclusivity, a kinda wow kinda now pink cloud of cotton candy Kardashian empire building. You can have it all as long as you pay the piper.
There’s a word for it: Propaganda.
American movies now are the realization of the very thing Joseph McCarthy worried about during the Red Scare—ideology that, bit by bit, pretends to be art while chipping away at the foundations that define this country and make us a strong nation. Meanwhile, over in China their overt propaganda isn’t even pretending to be art.
Even the worst movies back then were better than almost everything they make now.”
