In the comments of Disparu’s video responding to a journalist on the subject of the failure of the Star Wars TV series The Acolyte, commentariopolitico1014 writes:
These people act as if they purchased a famous and profitable steak house chain, show up wearing “Beef is Murder’ t-shirts, change the menu to vegan, and now are complaining that all customers are gone and leaving 1/2 stars!
Williamlitsch5506 replies:
I think that this is exactly what they are doing, on purpose. A vegan doesn’t buy a steakhouse by accident. They do it with the intent to punish and admonish steak eaters. They do it because they don’t want to build a vegan restaurant accross the street and compete for who has the best lifestyle. They want to top-down smash the competition and other lifestyles using money and power. They don’t want to compete in the marketplace of ideas. They don’t want to tolerate the existence of alternative lifestyles. They have high religiosity, belong to a powerful cult, and have no principled opposition to authoritarianism. They believe they are better than you, but know they can’t compete.
All institutions are vulnerable to this. In entertainment, at least, market forces limit it. In open source software, projects can be forked. In politics, the threat is far more subtle and difficult to defend against.
For a very long time indeed Hollywood has been dominated by leftist ideas – as books such as “Red Star over Hollywood” explain, it is true that “market forces” (i.e. the customers) have limited leftism in the past – but this has changed.
These days Hollywood studios are not really owned by anyone, for example Walt Disney (who the present Disney Corporation pretend to admire – but actually hate and despise) died in 1966 and his brother a year later – there is no Mr Disney in control of the Disney Corporation.
Individuals generally own only a minority of the shares of the film and television companies – most shares are “managed” by such financial entities as BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard (who own shares in each-other) – hired managers, such as Bob Iger and Kevin Feige (both talentless hacks – who have spent their lives taking the credit for the work of other people) at Disney – “responsible to” other hired managers at the financial institutions.
These are all “educated”, i.e. indoctrinated, Corporate bureaucrats – they have little interest in, and no empathy for, ordinary customers.
And this most certainly includes the “creatives” such as Kathleen Kennedy (another person who made her career by taking the credit for the work of other people), and the Legion of other useless nonentities who dominate film and television.
“But Paul – eventually lack of customers will lead to change”.
Perhaps it will – or perhaps Credit Money, perhaps a Digital Currency, will force people to “buy” these Corporate “entertainment” products – whether they like them or not.
Till then there is still Copyright law – in Western nations now copyrights last 70 years after the creator dies, and Copyrights can be owned by Corporations (not the supposedly starving wife and orphan children of the dead artist) – so the Disney Corporation (and the other Corporations) continue to get money from the work of people who they, privately, hate and despise (whilst pretending to revere) – such as Mr Walt Disney.
The American Corporate State is even talking about extending Copyright to be a century long – but I think other nations will not go along with that.
Recently I tried to access a book on line written by someone who died more than 70 years ago – I had to promise that I was not in the United States, in order to do so.
The American Corporate State truly has gone insane.
There is presently one “right wing” film in American cinemas – the Reagan movie (with Denis Quaid).
In the United Kingdom there are none at all.
So the leftist destruction of what the late Dr Chris Tame called “bootleg romanticism” has proceeded even more in the United Kingdom than in the United States.
Truly the vegans have taken over the steakhouse – and they have done so, yes, in order to destroy it.
I live a few hundred yards from a cinema – but I can not remember when I last watched a film there.
Kettering cinema is now going to close – and I suspect that if the “entertainment industry” were given the choice of showing “right wing” films or closing down, they would choose closing down. After all “racist far right thugs” (everyone who is not a leftist is a “racist far right thug” – as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has explained) such as James Stewart (a, Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse Protect Us!, REPUBLICAN) would not be tolerated today.
Ditto the Corporate bureaucrats who control the other industries – although they are hoping that “Digital Currency” will make people buy their products whether they like them or not.
Watching journalists, critics, reviewers, actors, show runners and everyone else associated with the woke garbage churned out under the umbrellas of Marvel, Disney, Star Wars, Tolkien (they will pay dearly for this one!) and even Doctor Who collectively losing their minds at the gleeful ridicule from the likes of Critical Drinker, Nerdrotic and Disparu while simultaneously attacking their own fanbases is highly entertaining.