Quote: (07-16-2016 02:21 PM)scorpion Wrote:
As it goes with homosexuality and female misbehavior, so it goes with every other sort of anti-social messaging. You see it with violence as well, which will upset many of the men reading here. The Walking Dead is a very popular show among both men and women today. I've never watched it, but a girl I was seeing was watching an episode one day and I was absolutely appalled at the amount of violence on display. People just slaughtering each other. She was totally numb to what she was seeing. She, and all the other viewers had been conditioned to regard human slaughter as perfectly normal. The implications are incredibly disturbing and do not bode well for what we are being conditioned for in the future.
Resurrecting this old thread because I got roped into seeing the latest installment of this blatant propaganda reel. The First Purge looked like a cheap forgettable B feature so I went along for the ride, not realizing anything about this series of laughable leftoid fantasy. Needless to say, I left wondering whether it was funded by Soros himself or an SJW slush fund at the DNC.
They ticked every box with this ridiculous fantasy fest of bogeymen: the NRA, Blackwater, Eeevil white men, the KKK, conspiracies about white people deliberately poisoning black communities with violence, etc. Tactical (white, male, of course) operators gunning down innocent black folks while wearing black faced masks - give me a break! Fear not, they are saved by a crack dealer turned good guy and a homicidal maniac who shows up at just the right moment to kill whitey.
It's been my experience that good propaganda is somewhat plausible. Yet the reality check wasn't even perfunctorily performed on this dud - it's like they didn't even care. The bad news is the true mouth breathing SJW idiots out there will eat this up, but the good news is there were maybe ten people in the theater, tops - literally nobody is paying for this crap. I'm stunned it made any money at all, but no-name talent is cheap these days and neither the props nor the set were anything special.
The only mildly surprising and disappointing news is that it was backed by Michael Bay, the same guy who did a pretty good job with Thirteen Hours, almost fooling me into thinking he had a patriotic bone in his (((adopted))) body. Well fool me once - I guess in the end a buck is a buck and he needs to maintain relationships in Hollywood, along with Jason Blum, his co-producer with a tendency towards leftoid race baiting. (((Coincidence?)))
Scorpion is right about the infectious tendency of entertainment, generally. This is what brought about
the production code from the great depression until about the 1960s. Hollywood had to clean up their act or no bank would finance them. Alas, when their financial situation improved, away went the rules and with them, the subtle attempts to influences, replaced by much more overt and caustic messages we see in films today. Before they at least had to be creative, now they just pump the message right at the audience, who, generations removed from Leave it to Beaver, indoctrinated in public schools and sent off to (((college))), are beyond numb to the levels of manipulation thrown at them.
I'm old enough to remember in the early eighties when local network affiliate in Boston refused to show the airing of
The Warriors because of so many protests from viewers over how violent the movie was.
They complied with the wishes of the viewers and did not show the network premier. As a kid I have to admit I was pissed, but they were right - that movie h
ad an effect wherever it was shown - fights broke out, kids got stabbed, real deal. Now, that film seems watered down and quaint, and it's difficult to imagine the controversy it created. Back then, a modern series like The Walking Dead would be an extreme R rated movie if anything, and definitely not a regular TV show accessible to anyone - regardless of BS ratings no parent pays attention to.
Scorpion also pointed out that same tendency of influence holds true for porn - it teaches you to be a cuckold and maybe worse. How many future faggots are created by subtle manipulation via entertainment? Did we ever used to hear about pre-pubescent children wanting to change their genders even ten years ago? What could be next?
None of this shit passed off as "just a movie" is harmless in the aggregate - it's the entertainment equivalent of cigarettes. Sure a few might not kill you, but a lifetime of crap will turn into a bad habit with a major negative effect on your health and welfare.
Whether we realize it or not, we're
slouching towards Gomorrah, for sure.