The monsters have definitely been playing the long game. For decades. It sounds conspiratorial, but if one really starts looking at pop-culture, movies, shows etc over the last 30 years or so with "C19 eyes" it is SHOCKING to see just how long they've been advertising everything we are going through right now. Getting everyone to accept their demise. Uncanny.
It's the destruction of imagination. The cartoons of my (long-ago) childhood worked on both the children's and adult level--lots of wordplay and double entendres and sly references to the classics. And when my kid was little, Shari Lewis returned (as Shari and Friends), and wordplay silliness was elevated to gentle genius. Now all the animation is flat and the stories are all based on angst. Joyousness is gone. Prepare to be a drone and like it.
I'm hoping to write about that. Got my first inkling into how much pop culture, etc. shaped our POVs and got us 'addicted' to various things... especially after reading David McGowan's Laurel Canyon series. All the stuff after WWII is just amazing for the level of hypnotic components in them - music, movies, TV shows, commercials... unbelievable.
There was some real talent in the mid 60s to early 70s as far as music goes. And then in the late 70s early 80s a much weaker renaissance. And since it seems to have died. But maybe they all just ran out of songs to steal from the 20s and 30s.
This is why every totalitarian system first mocks and discards the voices of experience. Forces them out of institutions; derides them as "not up on the latest [fill in here];" valorizes voices of "the young fighting for change" etc. etc. etc. Hierarchal systems are both necessary and yet appropriate to rebel against, and one needs some real, developed wisdom to understand what to value and what may also legitimately be forced to evolve in a healthy direction. Child capture at the earliest stages prevents that development of wisdom. All o' them Young Pioneer-type movements lead to a generation of morons.
A mere two years to wreck the whole world. Who'd a' thunk it?
The set-up took decades though. Reminds me of one of those domino knock downs that take years to design, and only a minute or less to flatten 'em all.
The monsters have definitely been playing the long game. For decades. It sounds conspiratorial, but if one really starts looking at pop-culture, movies, shows etc over the last 30 years or so with "C19 eyes" it is SHOCKING to see just how long they've been advertising everything we are going through right now. Getting everyone to accept their demise. Uncanny.
It's the destruction of imagination. The cartoons of my (long-ago) childhood worked on both the children's and adult level--lots of wordplay and double entendres and sly references to the classics. And when my kid was little, Shari Lewis returned (as Shari and Friends), and wordplay silliness was elevated to gentle genius. Now all the animation is flat and the stories are all based on angst. Joyousness is gone. Prepare to be a drone and like it.
I'm hoping to write about that. Got my first inkling into how much pop culture, etc. shaped our POVs and got us 'addicted' to various things... especially after reading David McGowan's Laurel Canyon series. All the stuff after WWII is just amazing for the level of hypnotic components in them - music, movies, TV shows, commercials... unbelievable.
There was some real talent in the mid 60s to early 70s as far as music goes. And then in the late 70s early 80s a much weaker renaissance. And since it seems to have died. But maybe they all just ran out of songs to steal from the 20s and 30s.
...yes IтАЩve totally been noticing this...
They've been "nudging" everyone towards this.
This is why every totalitarian system first mocks and discards the voices of experience. Forces them out of institutions; derides them as "not up on the latest [fill in here];" valorizes voices of "the young fighting for change" etc. etc. etc. Hierarchal systems are both necessary and yet appropriate to rebel against, and one needs some real, developed wisdom to understand what to value and what may also legitimately be forced to evolve in a healthy direction. Child capture at the earliest stages prevents that development of wisdom. All o' them Young Pioneer-type movements lead to a generation of morons.
They arenтАЩt done yet.