"The Leftist belief that if you believe the wrong things, Leftism has a right to ownership of your children."
The most disgusting occurrence of this imo is Pans Labyrinth, where the Spanish republican scum steal the infant son of a Nationalist officer, telling him his son will never know who he was right before they kill him. I decided never to watch a del Toro movie again, what a cruel and spiteful soul must go into creating something so vile.
Crawling out from under my rock to tell you that I have never once been tempted to watch an Avatar movie. 😅
A well written piece as always. I hope something better is coming soon but a whole lot of obstacles have been placed to stop this from happening. Maybe this is where the AI tools will level the field for better ideas to trickle up.
"Audiences basically don’t care about, or connect with, or consciously understand, this genocidal sermon on any level."
Adult audiences do not notice, because it blurs together with the rest of the same sermon we hear everywhere else. Gen X and Baby Boomers grew up with this sermon, and a more-or-less functioning country, both. We still feel, still believe, that the propaganda is harmless, that everybody knows it is neither true, nor sincere, and that having said our obligatory "Amen"s we will go back to doing what we were already doing, anyway.
Younger cohorts and small children think the sermon both heartfelt and descriptive. "The older people who built the world believe it, so I should, at least provisionally."
Then, reality bites, and suddenly, for no reason at all, they become Nazis. "If they lied about x, why not y and z, as well?"
Or reject as a religion, to start his own. Which is exactly how sacred fires - and the light of civilization - die. When no one gets the joke, the believers are the joke. No one can see that no matter how ridiculous old luxury beliefs are, somebody, somewhere did something right or we would not have made it this far.
The Right, today, knows whats wrong, and knows what they want. What they do not know is how to get it; and the more the Establishment tries to torture them into seeing what was never there, the less they have to lose.
What the sane,rational "Late Gen X" and "cool" Boomers must do is offer the younger cohorts a working model of civilization. It has to be us, we are the only ones who remember when the parts still fit, when everything worked.
But no one will take it on faith any more. That faith is a joke, deservedly so. We are going to have to prove our theses and show our work. And our time is running out.
Something like Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings Trilogy is such a striking contrast to Avatar because it's also a massive technical achievement, but it has actual heart and universal/human/true themes, so we're still talking about it 20+ years later. That's also true for Lucas's Star Wars films, to a somewhat lesser extent. These represent essentially timeless, mythic visions of storytelling, which are the sharpest possible contrast to libtard luxury beliefs. This is why various entertainment franchises will ultimately be forgotten - Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Phillip Pullman's fedora-tipping atheist dreck His Dark Materials series. This stuff is an artifact of Boomer ideology and it seem that Gen Z, for a large part, already finds it dated and cringey.
I have no actual data to back this up, but my impression of Avatar was always that it was, how do I say, mostly third-world derived demographics going to see this stuff. I can't remember ever hearing any white people talking about the movie(s). Third-world demographics are easily dazzled by spectacle, but they're not creating *culture* around something like Avatar the way that white, mostly male, nerds do: generating fan fiction and art, having extended discussions and debates in online forums, dressing up as characters at conventions, and so on. As goofy as some of that stuff can be, it's a big part of why things like LOTR and Star Wars have had such long cultural legs.
Get to the factories and shipyards and build something, they are rising already. Stop moping, have a friend kick you in the balls to remind you are a MAN. 👋🏻 SLAP.
And if worried about the school’s homeschool.
Mind you in the main the school system turns young white kids into Nazis better than Himmler ever did.
Thank you for reinforcing and explaining my initial suspicions about Avatar, which caused me to walk out of the first one. Cameron's epic Terminator 2 didn't have the same playbook, the 1980s being a reaction to the proto-woke 60s and 70s. Most directors won't buck the current-think of Hollywood, too much $$$ is at stake. Clint Eastwood, however, leaned toward the anti-crime values of the old West, and even the antebellum South in "The Outlaw Josey Wales". His Dirty Harry movies, and others, laughed at the ridiculousness of feminism. Gran Torino doesn't ruin his legacy.
Ok, I C the problem, never ever go to the sequel, it's all down hill from there. The movie that dropped in 2009 was pivotal for one scene "Time to wake up", military grade pacification and control coming from Hollywood, riggeded sports, the war on Drugs, the war on Terror, the war on hunger, and it's working, everyone tucked away in there sleep pods, we all need that wake up call before the 500 pound fat cat banker takes total control
What the cool Boomers do not get, is that younger people will never understand how old people could let all of this happen. Its great to say, "Hey, I did not participate! I didn't put grandma in a care home, kill one third of my children, put the survivors in day care and leave them to raise themselves. I didn't sell the farm, I didn't move the factories to China, I didn't do any of this!"
Well, what did you do?
Christian marriage is literally illegal, all of the institutions, including the churches, are captured, wages are literally and actually below what the old south paid to their slaves. To own a house, much less to own one's job, is no more believable than any other just so storey.
Every single person in charge of all of this is, right now, is a Baby Boomer who took over forty years ago, and proceeded to pull the ladder up behind him, replacing every single younger man in his entire bailiwick, with people he thought could not do his job. On purpose - he did not plan to be out of power, ever. Young people do not want to hear our excuses. "Wow, cool storey, Grandpa"."Sorry, I did not know you when you were cool."
They are not wrong.
None of this had to happen, and all of it did because people who had it all could not be bothered to defend it.
It is easier for Gen X, in a way. We watched it happen, but were already frozen out of power. Folks younger than, say, forty... what should they think? What would you think?
a genius crushed. it still brings me intense rage. the offerings he had to the world were unfathomable. if there is ever a billionaire reading this, please, god, give him funding.
"The Leftist belief that if you believe the wrong things, Leftism has a right to ownership of your children."
The most disgusting occurrence of this imo is Pans Labyrinth, where the Spanish republican scum steal the infant son of a Nationalist officer, telling him his son will never know who he was right before they kill him. I decided never to watch a del Toro movie again, what a cruel and spiteful soul must go into creating something so vile.
Crawling out from under my rock to tell you that I have never once been tempted to watch an Avatar movie. 😅
A well written piece as always. I hope something better is coming soon but a whole lot of obstacles have been placed to stop this from happening. Maybe this is where the AI tools will level the field for better ideas to trickle up.
"Audiences basically don’t care about, or connect with, or consciously understand, this genocidal sermon on any level."
Adult audiences do not notice, because it blurs together with the rest of the same sermon we hear everywhere else. Gen X and Baby Boomers grew up with this sermon, and a more-or-less functioning country, both. We still feel, still believe, that the propaganda is harmless, that everybody knows it is neither true, nor sincere, and that having said our obligatory "Amen"s we will go back to doing what we were already doing, anyway.
Younger cohorts and small children think the sermon both heartfelt and descriptive. "The older people who built the world believe it, so I should, at least provisionally."
Then, reality bites, and suddenly, for no reason at all, they become Nazis. "If they lied about x, why not y and z, as well?"
I always look forward to updates here, thank you.
Late Gen X here and this is so accurate. "What the father believes in jest, the son will believe as religion"
Or reject as a religion, to start his own. Which is exactly how sacred fires - and the light of civilization - die. When no one gets the joke, the believers are the joke. No one can see that no matter how ridiculous old luxury beliefs are, somebody, somewhere did something right or we would not have made it this far.
The Right, today, knows whats wrong, and knows what they want. What they do not know is how to get it; and the more the Establishment tries to torture them into seeing what was never there, the less they have to lose.
What the sane,rational "Late Gen X" and "cool" Boomers must do is offer the younger cohorts a working model of civilization. It has to be us, we are the only ones who remember when the parts still fit, when everything worked.
But no one will take it on faith any more. That faith is a joke, deservedly so. We are going to have to prove our theses and show our work. And our time is running out.
Stonetoss noted cultural imprint of Avatar.
https://stonetoss.com/comic/nature-lover/
Something like Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings Trilogy is such a striking contrast to Avatar because it's also a massive technical achievement, but it has actual heart and universal/human/true themes, so we're still talking about it 20+ years later. That's also true for Lucas's Star Wars films, to a somewhat lesser extent. These represent essentially timeless, mythic visions of storytelling, which are the sharpest possible contrast to libtard luxury beliefs. This is why various entertainment franchises will ultimately be forgotten - Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Phillip Pullman's fedora-tipping atheist dreck His Dark Materials series. This stuff is an artifact of Boomer ideology and it seem that Gen Z, for a large part, already finds it dated and cringey.
I have no actual data to back this up, but my impression of Avatar was always that it was, how do I say, mostly third-world derived demographics going to see this stuff. I can't remember ever hearing any white people talking about the movie(s). Third-world demographics are easily dazzled by spectacle, but they're not creating *culture* around something like Avatar the way that white, mostly male, nerds do: generating fan fiction and art, having extended discussions and debates in online forums, dressing up as characters at conventions, and so on. As goofy as some of that stuff can be, it's a big part of why things like LOTR and Star Wars have had such long cultural legs.
Get to the factories and shipyards and build something, they are rising already. Stop moping, have a friend kick you in the balls to remind you are a MAN. 👋🏻 SLAP.
And if worried about the school’s homeschool.
Mind you in the main the school system turns young white kids into Nazis better than Himmler ever did.
Thank you for reinforcing and explaining my initial suspicions about Avatar, which caused me to walk out of the first one. Cameron's epic Terminator 2 didn't have the same playbook, the 1980s being a reaction to the proto-woke 60s and 70s. Most directors won't buck the current-think of Hollywood, too much $$$ is at stake. Clint Eastwood, however, leaned toward the anti-crime values of the old West, and even the antebellum South in "The Outlaw Josey Wales". His Dirty Harry movies, and others, laughed at the ridiculousness of feminism. Gran Torino doesn't ruin his legacy.
Boomer here. Couldn't stand to watch Avatar cause it looked stupid. Still does. Don't know about the rest of all this stuff.
Ok, I C the problem, never ever go to the sequel, it's all down hill from there. The movie that dropped in 2009 was pivotal for one scene "Time to wake up", military grade pacification and control coming from Hollywood, riggeded sports, the war on Drugs, the war on Terror, the war on hunger, and it's working, everyone tucked away in there sleep pods, we all need that wake up call before the 500 pound fat cat banker takes total control
You don't like us much, do you?
who?
Boomers
That’s correct. You personally may be cool, I don’t want to attack you specifically
What the cool Boomers do not get, is that younger people will never understand how old people could let all of this happen. Its great to say, "Hey, I did not participate! I didn't put grandma in a care home, kill one third of my children, put the survivors in day care and leave them to raise themselves. I didn't sell the farm, I didn't move the factories to China, I didn't do any of this!"
Well, what did you do?
Christian marriage is literally illegal, all of the institutions, including the churches, are captured, wages are literally and actually below what the old south paid to their slaves. To own a house, much less to own one's job, is no more believable than any other just so storey.
Every single person in charge of all of this is, right now, is a Baby Boomer who took over forty years ago, and proceeded to pull the ladder up behind him, replacing every single younger man in his entire bailiwick, with people he thought could not do his job. On purpose - he did not plan to be out of power, ever. Young people do not want to hear our excuses. "Wow, cool storey, Grandpa"."Sorry, I did not know you when you were cool."
They are not wrong.
None of this had to happen, and all of it did because people who had it all could not be bothered to defend it.
It is easier for Gen X, in a way. We watched it happen, but were already frozen out of power. Folks younger than, say, forty... what should they think? What would you think?
passivity is a form of participation
Sad
>shane caruth
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a genius crushed. it still brings me intense rage. the offerings he had to the world were unfathomable. if there is ever a billionaire reading this, please, god, give him funding.
About time to disconnect completely from the trash chute...