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The market is no longer a force for change. I believe Capitol is above production now, probably worked and formed into an ever-replenishing reservoir we are all somehow paying for whether we like it or not. The "woke" will not go broke just because we turn away from content.
Raz0rFist's take on it is, "Go broke, get woke," that wokeness is the shelter they flee to after ruining a franchise more often than it is the cause of said ruination. I personally think it's a cycle, because franchises either fail because they go woke, or they fail because they hired a bunch of affirmative action hires who can't do the job right, and then hide behind the wokeness. "See our movie or you're a white supreme pizza" fails as a business model.
When it has been said to me "if you're doing nothing wrong you have nothing to to hide" I've simply answered "how much did you take home last month after tax?" That puts an end to that nonsense quickly enough
“I just don’t care anymore” is exactly how I feel. Haven’t enjoyed a movie or TV show in years. When I was younger I found it amazing how people don’t vote, how can you not participate in your own society? Now I see why. They don’t care, have given up, or realize it won’t change.
There is no political solution, but its worse than that, voting actually strengthens the implication the regime has a mandate from the people. Your belief in the system mainatains your oppression.
It's kinda hard once you start noticing all the messaging and you realize it's meant to slowly warp our minds so we'll all willfully create the degenerated society the film producers envision...a society that will immiserate us while benefiting them. Beyond that, the quality of filmmaking is just awful because the younger generation of filmmakers are bourgeois, lazy and unlikable. Their films thus reflect their personalities. I just did a video about the new Avatar film, which seems to be popular, but the video wasn't really about the film per se (shameless plug). It was more about the theme of romantic primitivism in modern film. I miss all the movie dissections done by Black Pilled (Devon Stack). I think he's still making content on alt tech somewhere.
... and yet, even though I haven't watched any of your video's for the last couple of months, this one sprang up in my recommended section almost immediately.
I recently watched an arc of Andor with a friend of mine. It was the one where he helps the rebels on the Celtic/Iceland planet. I'm not a big fan of the show ("dark gritty Star Wars" just seems a bit oxymoronic to me), but it was pretty good. However, one thing I realized while watching the Empire's very realistic oppression of a colonized people (using "comfort stations" and trade to demoralize them and erode their cultural institutions) is that the average progressive viewer might sympathize with this fictional "indigenous" population but would absolutely hate everything about them. Let's say the people of that planet are freed by the rebellion. Should they then be free to practice their "backwards" religious festivals? Engage in "primitive," "sexist" divisions of labor, marriage practices, and enjoy their life unimpeded by interconnected globalized (galactized?) corporations, NGOs, and trade networks? Obviously no "right-thinking" progressive would allow that. In the end, progressives don't have a problem with the tyranny of indigenous peoples. It's just who is doing the tyrannizing and for what purpose.
Very much so. They claim to love the little brown "savage", but would in a vacuum hate them. And when it's a white person being oppressed they don't care because they are white. Likewise, when it's the white man being the oppressor, they will hate him, but ultimately love all that he has to offer. The Empire maybe designed to remind them of Nazis, but deep down they agree with the western imperialism and modern globalism. The leftist are ironically very much blood and soil types so long as you are defending some Amazon tribal or something. And a white burden imperialist when you are spreading progress to the middle east and helping to uplift the downtrodden 3rd worlder. Liberals aren't much better and share this in their common lineage. The average liberal also doesn't take much of a push to become a one world order, imperialistic moral objectivist in regards to how the "savage barbarians must be enlightened by the superior western ways." They of course wouldn't word it this way, but they have been shown time and time again to be the world police/interventionalist types. Rather than the "if the believe in killing their widows, so be it as long as they keep it the hell over there." Types.
You should watch the whole thing... That portion was probably the least riveting arc. The prison was the one that hit most people the hardest. It was TOO realistic for me even. It was just too well done, just like the entire season. As far as progressive hypocrisy, how are you not beyond that yet? There is two types of people... those who use language to communicate, and those who use it to manipulate. One side needs to say what they mean, so that they can actively work together and get things done. You cant get people to build a functional bridge by gaslighting. The other simply needs to get the first group to "bring home the bacon' as it were. They dont say what they mean, they say what works. That's why they can say straight to your face that "islamaphobia is racist" or some other illogical statement. They dont use logic, they use guilt, shame, happiness or any other emotional feeling. A problem as old as mankind itself, for there will always be two types of people. Masculine and feminine.
@@hohenzollern6025 As I said, "dark, realistic Star Wars" isn't my thing. Don't really feel the need for that, so not interested in watching more. And I'm plenty aware of progressive hypocrisy, but analyzing the why is interesting and can make for interesting conversation. "Why do you care about this people group?" As for blaming progressive madness on women/femininity, as far as I see it, linguistification has long been employed by both sexes and mostly results from the need to make causes palatable. You can't say "the Pope wants land in Israel" and ensure loyalty, so instead you say "God wants to drive out the infidels." You can't say "The US needs to supplant a failing birthrate with mass migration" and garner support, so you say "no human is illegal." It's the result of civilizational complexity, not feminity.
@@echoecho3155 I didnt say women. Or men. I said masculine and feminine. Think of it like a plug. Your masculine cord isnt actually a man, but it has "male traits". The left, in general, uses emotional manipulation. You know... like women do. It's not to say all of the left are women, and all men are right... it's just to demonstrate the similarities. And there is absolutely no point trying to gauge a response to logic in people who posses none. I would not ask my dog to explain to me the logical reason it chewed that shoe up. I just already know 'he do, what he do'. Just like I know there is no point in trying to corner a leftist by pointing out his/her hypocrisy. Thats just what they do.
@@hohenzollern6025 My argument is that linguistification (not talking straight for purposes of manipulation as you put it) is neither masculine nor feminine. I see it as a technology devoid of normal human conceptualization. And I think progressives have plenty of logic. They're just stuck in self-referential loops, often facilitated by linguistification. You're not cornering them into logic, but disrupting a harmful path. You probably won't convert them, but you can disrupt the pathway and potentially harm the ideology, if only a little. Plus, learning and understanding how the pathways work lets you navigate them better as well.
14:46 Finally someone else says it. People complain nowadays about comparisons to 1984, Brave New World and all that Dystopian media as being cliche or an indication you shouldn't listen to anyone using those terms (like they're some baby boomer on Facebook or something). Yet at the same time the world at large continues to veer in that general direction.
That's the effect of the combination of intellectual laziness and disingenuousness, gaslighting, and a deep fear of actually confronting the monsters under the bed.
@MostPeopleArentWeirdos There's a reason for that. Both Orwell and Huxley were connected with the establishment, Huxley family in particular. HG Wells is another. Those novels aren't predictions. They are what the establishment was conceiving back then.
@@MonstersNotUnderTheBed When schools teach memorization of carefully chosen narratives, and only rarely (if ever) encourage critical thinking, you have robots as "citizens." When these robots encounter "news" or "entertainment," it doesn't matter the category, they lap it up as if it's another thing to be memorized for accuracy. Their tendency to obsessively memorize, as adults, will mirror their school days' behavior. The most prissy, robotic "teacher's pet" kids will now be the Complaining Karens and Lecturing Lesters, treating their memorized narrative as The Reality and treating all freethinking folks as heretics if not insane psychopaths. Just as they did in school. To bring it full circle with Morgoth's topic -- the great majority of people in 1st world countries seem most like Senstive Ponytail Guy in the classic Good Will Hunting scene that ends with Will saying "how 'bout them apples." They memorized nonsense, they have no integral world view or synthetic understanding. They think their memorized trivia make them experts, knowledgeable, authoritative. But they're just hollow robots.
@Beware the XLBS variant. I could write essays on how close Huxley and Orwell were and what they got wrong comparing it to our life today. Its creepy. You recognise so much even if its a bit of a midwit take.
@Beware the XLBS variant. I believe someone said Orwells ideas about "the party" and its totalitarian control were based on James Burnhams "The Managerial Revolution".
I love how half of the critics in this space pretend that ‘I don’t care about the black dwarfs and elves! Honest! It’s the writing that is bad!’ How cowardly. Stop pretending that you don’t care about black elves and dwarfs because it’s politically incorrect to say so. We all know you think it’s ridiculous because it is.
The amount of videos over the years I stopped watching when they get to the point about not caring about the most fundamental elements of desecration beggars belief.
“The ResistanceTM” is one of the things that upsets me the most in clown world. It’s absolutely maddening to see these people who control every institution of power act like they are some poor down trodden rebels fighting against the Man.
Agreed. There’s nothing more pathetic and shameless than pretending to be the victim when you’re actually the oppressor. These people will go down in history as the most disgusting and vile traitors to ever live. Our people will want to forget they ever lived in the first place.
@@Master_of_Critique a good example of this is the teachers unions in the US getting the FBI to designate parents at school board meetings as domestic terrorists. They use the government to go after parents and they want to act like victim? It’s infuriating.
First there were authorities that were arbitrary, that ruled by fiat, and let it be known that this was what it meant to rule, prerequisite before any questions of what it meant to rule well could be asked. They were replaced by authorities that meechingly disclaimed their authority, deprecated rulership, and sought refuge in the vestments of neutrality, common sense, and prudence, all divorced from such nastiness. They were in turn usurped by authorities that outright denied they were authorities, and perennially claimed their enemies, who merely used such concepts as neutrality, prudence, and common sense as baubles to district their prey, were all-powerful, and therefore deserved whatever happened to them. Sooner or later the wheel shall turn again. Laughing lions must come.
"The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work and what it has become has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away." -Christopher Tolkien. This is how I feel most of the time now. I used to enjoy watching the videos critiquing the latest woke trash, but I can't even do that anymore. No amount of argument will change it, they don't care and are doing it on purpose. Its all so tiresome, just walk away. Also, great and very accurate commentary on power and how they control us today.
Every attempt to create teevee or movie from JRR Tolkien's work has been crap -- because it wasn't made as pulp fiction destined for a "thriller blockbuster" movie translation. It carried messages, it was asking moral questions and making moral observations, and used extensive symbolism and metaphor -- none of which have conveyed to televised or movie productions. No wonder Christopher politely says he can only turn away. Who knows how he'd truly speak on matters, if not filtered by 21st Century soft and overt censorship.
>The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing this almost seems like a universal maxim these days. everything touched by money withers as if its mere presence is poison. one can almost remove the "the" from the phrase to make the specific subject categorical instead, and assert that commercialisation poisons creation itself.
There's a very suspicious element of a section of "review youtube" that's clearly just doing it to make money themselves, to the point of giving promotion to every single pointless corporate reboot that I've been suspicious of them just getting money from the corporation they're supposedly criticizing.
That is right. It is not the Big Brother that controls everybody. Big Brother cannot be everywhere at once. It is the fear of His omnipresence and resulting self censorship, self control that makes all into good, obedient little cogs in the machine.
"It's interesting that 'Progressives' can only look back, back at the dystopia of the 1930's." Well they're not going to part the veil on the dystopia they've built for us right now, are they? They need a mythology that their way is always better than any other way, all while the goal posts zoom about on roller skates.
IMO, progressives hate everything and everyone. Nothing is good "as-is" if you're a progressive. Everything must always be "progressing" and a progressive will not tolerate debate on what is "progress." Progressives define progress. They'll tell you so, just like a Harvard grad will always tell you so within the first 5 mins of conversation. A person skilled in assessing human psychological maladies would Dx the progressive as self-hating, and stuck perpetually in an adolescent mindset. The progressive projects the self-hatred onto the world, saying "it must PROGRESS!" -- and does this instead of fixing himself/herself.
It’s the screen. We’re addicted to moving lights. It really doesn’t matter what is being displayed or how long it is, all that matters is that it is watched. The Medium is The Message.
The irony of people believing 1984 or Brave New World could never happen is that these novels (and others) are directly inspired by what our establishment was actively contemplating when they were written. Many of these naïve people are not aware that Aldous's brother, Julian, was friends with Teilhard de Chardin, the Jesuit priest, and were right at the forefront of transhumanist thinking decades before the public had even been introduced to the ideas. Everyone is three steps behind, so it doesn't matter if the material itself is direct propaganda or not because in both cases it is limiting your thinking. Lying by omission, rapid camera transition or dramatic music to affect physiological rhythms, there's so many subtle ways to shape thinking patterns (not just individual thoughts). It's called the 'idiot lantern' for a reason. As Bill Hicks used to say, it's like taking black spray paint to your third eye. It is filling your mind with material, any material, which drowns out the silence from where direct intuition rises from. Thus, it is all propaganda against you.
Some times i like to imagine what could happen if (for whatever reason) Morgoth gets invited to a Podcast discussion like EFAP or something like that. I can't imagine how bizarre will get. All of this top movie critic Trying in every way to not talk about what they really think or believe.
One reason modern cinematic fiction is in a persistent vegetative state is that so many sci-fi works of the past 50 or so years have become partly true, yet current citizens go about their days as if these negative developments haven't happened. It's all dizzy-making. These sorts of sci-fi works have some truth in them today -- Logan's Run Dark City The Truman Show The Circle Idiocracy (too goofy to be taken seriously when new, now seems a documentary) Black Mirror tv series (which only mildly satirized and hewed too close to reality) V for Vendetta Minority Report A Scanner Darkly I bet you could get a bunch of people gathered and show several of these works to them and they'd say, "thankfully WE don't live in that kind of sociey!" I'd even add The Hunger Games but that one seems created as a "let's rub it in" sort of production. And yet people still would say "thankfully WE don't live in that kind of society."
It seems to most people fascism exists as an abstraction - something that happened in the past to other people.The establishment propoganda of ‘We live in a democracy’ is still working on most people,after all most people are relatively well off - why would they want to rock the boat or question the status quo? In a sense everyone has become the bourgeoisie.However,as the war on humanity becomes more extreme it has caused or exaggerated a separation into three main groups among the population. Those with heads still buried in the sand will be squeezed into complete solidity or psychosis or possibly in a few cases sudden enlightenment? The minority already awake must stay on the path and not become demoralised. Those in the wide fuzzy middle will be faced with rapidly increasing pressure to choose.
I haven't watched a single new movie since I switched off The Last Jedi about half an hour into it. I have absolutely no motivation whatsoever to sit down and take in a new film anymore, even the ones that might be championed by the spheres I frequent. I have, however, watched and listened to thousands of hours of content from content creators and will continue to do so, it's what gets the ol' blood pumping. I'd rather listen to folk saying "it's less woke, it's gritty, it looks like Middlesbrough in the 1980s" than have to put up with The Product™.
I am in my 20s but the ones I fear for most are those in their teens or younger. These kids have never known a world outside of the panopticon. They will therefore be its most willing subservients and see the constant monitoring as "just our way of life"
I am in the same age range, and I have been only able to relate to one other person in my age range when it comes to politics and philosophy… just comes to show you how common sense has disintegrated.
Yeah, it's unfortunate. Ideals that were once centrist are considered alt right, it's their aggressive push to power. They know others are willing to up their freedom to destroy their political opponents and the youth are conditioned to see anyone outside of this subset as deplorable.
I agree that a lot of people 'don't care' anymore and I'm one of them. Every new bad thing I hear about just makes me sigh, no energy anymore to be mad. Drained more by the stupidity than the malice if anything. I've always thought about doing some soft activism of simply spreading awareness since people just simply don't know what is going on or what it means but alas I don't.
Maybe Andor is just an Anti-Sith bigot who needs to check his privilege, the Sith have been oppressed by the evil Jedi for centuries for no reason at all!
Excellent video and commentary. On a related note, it's satisfying to see another RU-vidr use the term "Critic RU-vid" after I first used it in a video essay two years ago and wondered if it would ever take off.
@@MorgothsReview1 Lol! I'm glad you have enjoyed my videos. I think your analysis here is spot-on but I wouldn’t hope for any self-awareness from the left wing of Critic RU-vid. I rarely look at progressive critic videos but, from what I've seen, they're always blind to revelations and parallels - such as the ones as you have outlined - because they get too easily distracted by “representation” and the urge to v*rtue signal is strong. As you have pointed out, even the blatant hypocrisy of megacorporation’s pushing Marxist critiques of capitalism isn’t enough to switch their brains on and make them smell the coffee.
What I do find it quite amusing about Hollywood that they declare themselves revolutionaries in their tv shows and yet if anyone dare call them the institution they are punished or mocked for it. They want to feel as though they are making some great change while forcing the world to agree with their same ideologies. They don't even realize that the people they depict as evil in their movies are often the true revolutionaries in the modern day. It's a beautiful irony constructed through years of supercilious behavior.
Brilliant perception and insight as ever. You nailed it with your vision to see through all the mind games and control the poor Western populations are being subjected to and forced to endure. We are not free and worse still living under the illusion that we are.
I was saying to someone today: tv is being slowly fazed out and streaming service will take its place as its young target audiences grow older. What wont change í believe is the presence of what í call "focus group" ideology dictating what its audience thinks instead of allowing simple entertainment of the masses.
I had the exact same feelings after I watched HBO's Chernobyl. I really liked it and loved the grim soundtrack. If you look for the OST on youtube you'll see many comments saying HBO should make a series like that about covid. They seem oblivious to the fact HBO will never make a show about covid for the same reason Chernobyl isn't a soviet made show. HBO is integrated into our western system which is resembling more and more the totalitarian system midwits like to criticize, and like them, it cannot look inward to create such brutal self critique. It only vilifies rival systems such as the soviet, the fascist or the chinese system, but it will never be able to touch problems in our own unless it is a permitted critique.
Genuinely fascinating. I would be keen to know if there are more examples of modern movies/shows that so explicitly mirror the world we are living in today but at the same time flys over the head of the progressive class that currently dominates us!
Also after watching the show, I was somewhat surprised how on the nose the Empires eagerness to subvert local and ancient community’s/traditions came through. This certainly doesn’t gel with modern progressive ideology and helps highlight the hypocrisy and delusion that they would in any way be associated with the empires opposition.
Maybe not a UN army at the moment, but its not lost on them that it could be in a heartbeat. There's always mercenaries to be had in the world. Thank you for all the work you've done.
The YA novel series Tunnels was one that laid out the imagery and methods of such systems of control and the incredible lengths the bug men go to secure their power over others. Many of those that believe themselves free will fight for the very system eating then alive, because they don't know any other way to live.
Metokur is/was fine by me, people called him out for mocking the changing world but not doing anything of merit to resist it, he was never obliged to. His attitide somehow reminded me of a helpless soul who knew he was going over the top at sunrise but faced it with gallows humour. His takedowns of Kraut & Sargon were of incredible value, through all the mocking & superberry shilling some pertinent truths were sent out into the ether. I hope he's lying & he just wants to quietly disappear
Amazing as always. I was actually just thinking about this today. How the muscle of globohomo is actually a bunch of bureaucrats, and not storm troopers.
"They mine the energy of the being through how they imprint the human to perceive reality" - John Trudell. In all these dystopian films like star wars, hunger games etc, the rebels win and the tide turns against the odds. So maybe its just a matter of time, and maybe time is on our side.
And funnily enough, that sentiment is in the series. "Tyranny is unnatural. It requires constant work. It leaks, it breaks, it falls apart. In the end, it will always fail." Whoever wrote the dialog was a brilliant individual.
"They mine the energy of the being through how they imprint the human to perceive reality" - John Trudell. What does this mean? Who is Trudell? I've never read a more awkward sentence offered as a quote to be admired. "...mine the energy of the being..." "...imprint the human..."? What sort of reddit-tier hipster babble is this?
Right after watching the series, I hopped onto youtube to see what reviews were like and I, too, was struck by the leftie commentary, so I really appreciate your making this video. A couple of other characters I found were notable from a dissident perspective were Vel and Leida (the sister and daughter of the Senator, respectively), as well as Siryl, the failed corporate police officer. Vel is the very embodiment of the privileged girl who comes to resent her own privilege and joins a cause to atone for being born rich-she’s in a sense what the system programs every white woman to want to be. At one point, she even says that Mon Mothma and her “need” to stand for a cause, rather than “just being rich girls”. Of course, both she and her sister (and even her brother in law) show aversion to their world’s conservative family traditions… but there’s one person who doesn’t: Leida. Born to an unloving but rich family with distant parents (especially her mother), Leida refuses to assimilate into the Empire’s “globohomo” culture and actively embraces tradition, going so far as to host “bible study”-like traditional sessions with her peers at the family home. Having been hurt from the distance of a careerist mother who raised her away from any meaningful community, she actually embraces the Chandrillan way of life, right down to arranged marriage (rather than marrying for loveTM or playing around like her aunt). This horrifies Vel who we learn is a Lesbian (lol), and Mon Mothma, who’s enjoyed a traditional upbringing but denied that to her daughter. Perhaps Leida is a metaphor for all the zoomers going increasingly right, as a reaction to their parents. Siryl is interesting in a different sense: he’s what the left perceives authoritarian right types to be: self-important, with no father and a domineering mother, quasi-autistic and sexually frustrated, and, most of all incompetent but also seeking recognition and status. I’ll say that it’s projection at its finest and leave it at that.
The worst thing about movie critique/movie essay RU-vid is how so many channels aren’t actual individuals, but instead a production company or website that churns out these “top 10 _”, “the problem with _” or “why _ is a great film”. It’s never original in anyway and those types of videos could literally be made by AI (if they’re not already).
Deserve a thumbs-up just for mentioning _Angel Cop_ . I think _Patlabor: Mobile Police_ (the 1989 movie) is a good one too, in relation to technology. I miss the golden age of anime.
The main reason I stopped watching TV, movies, etc. was to escape the mind poison of "control". I've even stopped listening to music except for things made by dissidents.
@@evolassunglasses4673 Unwashed has always kind of taken that approach to the movement. He wants to make ethnat punk rock. Hahaha I kinda like the idea, tbh.
I still watch the occasional movie but that’s about it. Any TV programmes have to be at least 25 years old to be bearable I find. Once you’ve avoided mainstream media for a good few months then happen to be exposed to it, it’s shocking how intense the messaging actually is.
A very good essay as always, I deeply enjoy your media reflections. I haven't seen Andor and didn't know it was so blatant about it's Stalin allusions, though I can't say I'm surprised. It is, as you say, highly ironic that they want to be the romantic rag-tag revolutionaries but are always rebelling against the systems that they have created. The Stalin esque protag isn't rebelling against a traditional monarchist society (even though it is technically headed by a monarch), he is rebelling against a modernist regime. One that resembles what the left leaning revolutionaries built in our world.
Funny thing about Andor (which I have never seen and never will), it's about a character created by Disney and that is reason enough to turn my back on it. Watching it would be like implicating yourself in a crime. Hollywood needs to collapse. Like you, there was a time when I would avidly look forward to a particular movie release. The entertainment industry is a smouldering funeral pyre right now. The only good thing to come out of the situation is the abundance of youtubers pointing this out.
Yes, but these youtubers, like the Drinker and so on, just goes for low hanging fruit. They'll incessantly whine about the low quality of entertainment these days and wokeism, but they never directly call out the propaganda and who's behind it. The questions that truly matter they won't touch with a ten foot pole, even though I'm sure they must be aware of it. The term "The message" is popular among these youtubers, but they will never elaborate on what the purpose of this message is, the long game or who's orchestrating it. All you get is the redditoid centrist/conservative take "forced inclusivity bad".
@@WhiteWolf126 Exactly true though is it because they are naive in the matter or because at that point it ceases to become about movies and goes into the realm of wider philosophy?
"Anything could be true. The so-called laws of nature were nonsense. The law of gravity was nonsense. "If I wished," O'Brien had said, "I could float off this floor like a soap bubble." Winston worked it out. "If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens."" - 1984
It appears that by finally brainwashing Winston in the end the establishment won,but all they did in reality is create another automaton and big brother continued to solidify and stagnate.
Happy New Year Morgoth! Well that’s quite a start....I used Benthams Panopticon in pretty much a similar context as yourself. I also think that the Optics involved in using the repressive state apparatus is what’s predominantly prevents its deployment more frequently (remember they now pander to the prevailing ideology and dominant discourse!) , unless of course your of the correct demographic .....a class intelligent essay anyway and as always food for thought! 👍
Absolutely wonderful video, and very important too. This is one of those videos that I want mainstream content creators and normies alike to watch, process and then accept.
Brilliant. This review actually sparked some interest in watching this show and when it comes to Star Wars I generally don’t care anymore. But I don’t have D+…
I wish this show was the first thing to come from Disney Star Wars. It looks like something I would really enjoy, but I just can't bring myself to watch it. My animosity towards this company is just much for me to overcome.
Last night I watched The Cat and Canary (1939) Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, was free on RU-vid and I really enjoyed it, no agenda, no moralising, no social engineering.....pure entertaining fun
I miss the quality and style of films like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. I don't switch the TV on now. It's actually very liberating. Best wishes Morgoth and a Happy New year.
Andor is fantastic, well written, carefully plotted, and full of compelling characters. I thought Diedra was a great character and an excellent performance by the actress. She makes this face of disgust that is just chilling. Great video Morgoth!
This is a perfect example of the panopticon. I am glad to see someone express what so many of us having been feeling in words. The quote "To always focus on the totalitarianism of old and trivialize emerging tyranny of the present" I found to be especially profound. As someone who witnessed the discrimination that is upheld in an academic level against those of conservative ideals. I have noticed the addressing of issues is always downplayed or ignored away by using past injustices that justify their movements of aggression today against innocent people. Who do you go to when those who have authority for addressing the issue find preference against you? There is no one to speak to openly and so often we just lie to our professors and peers, autonomy is not allowed if it contradicts obedience to their "utopia." And so by every definition they are the establishment they claim to fight with a slightly altered set of rules. And yet even in their gluttonous nepotism they still remain angry as if the world has done some injustice to them. It's bewildering.
I enjoyed this series based on your recommendation so thanks. Would like to someday hear your take on the Netflix show Dark, which l really enjoyed not only for the nostalgia element of the 80s but the well written storylines and dialogue. Anyway take care and happy new year.
Chatty Chitty Bang Bang, along with Willy Wonka (The original), are my must watch Christmas films. There are a few more, (Oliver, Poppins etc) but the aforementioned are must haves. Just saying. Happy new year mate. Nice to have you back.
I recently discovered the films of S. Craig Zahler. Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Dragged across concrete are both excellent and certainly not pc. Gonna watch Bone Tomahawk this weekend.
Andor was genuinely fantastic in its meditation on our instinctual humanity vs systems of control and organisation, and the spectrum of compromises we all make to greater or lesser extents. Loved it
And it's ironic that many 'progressive' watchers cheering the rebellion are more likely to be complicit with authoritarian ideologies in their own life.
The Panopticon is an appropriate metaphor for the desire for a systemic, all-pervasive control grid. However, creative people are always circumventing such scumbaggery. Got to love the power of memes and comedy to undermine social programming. Narratives are breaking down, the role of the jesters is to hold a mirror to power. Many thanks as always.
On the subject of Star Wars, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic is a brilliant and well written game. Games are time consuming but I couldn’t recommend it more.
Excellent analysis. This is why you lasted 2 days on Twitter. Intelligent reasoned convincing arguments against the system will not be tolerated. Slurs and fed posting will.
A good series to watch is "The Prisoner". The original one. Be seeing you. Also, the black and white original Twilight Zone was very good (with Rod Serling).
I'd recommend Gommorah, an Italian mafia drama. Zero woke agendas, just brutal and relentless action with some amazing cinematography. Again, the normies didn't like it because subtitles.
Something about this got me thinking of the artilleryman in War of the Worlds, and how he suspected a post-Martian conquest society would look like, with the Martians causing initial destruction and quickly snuffing out those who'd actually resist them wherever they were found, but providing material abundance, plenty of (likely fattening) food, and even leisure for whatever humans were willing to go along with the new system even if it meant they knew they were now little more than livestock. His case was that there's be many who'd willingly accept this, to the point that any actual resistance would have to turn out runaways who seemed to soft to stick it out in a harder existence or, worse yet, would inform on them. Granted, this is of course a science fiction setting with actual blood-drinking aliens in the elite position, but how many people make excuses for a slow slide into a world where you have to fear for what you say to even people you think of as friends lest your life be ruined, all because the world system we live in now offers material abundance, plenty of (often fattening) food, and even leisure for whoever is willing to go along with the system as is able to keep up with and swallow the approved speech guidelines? How many even among those who complain about the quality of art and media nowadays, or the political upheaval that came as a direct result of political and social liberalism taken to its logical extreme can be trusted to actually turn against this state of affairs?
I would say that films nowadays are intended to disillusion true artistic expression, we're fed tripe to turn us into emotionless undistracted workers and consumers. Find your niche and support it.
I thought you hadn't uploaded in a while, then i discover this and see i've missed another 2. Maybe i just missed them, but i think YT is up to their old tricks again.
