Gosh, this is super evident in movies as well! It's 1 in a hundred now that speaks to something true and resonant. And those do amazingly well in the theaters. People still hunger for it. But the rest is preachy propaganda. No story, all message. And people can FEEL when they're being led and rebel against it. It's icky.
Very true! I felt sick watching Netflix and thought the shows were dark and brought me down to a very low vibration so I cancelled my subscription… and that was back in 2019! I recently watched a “program” on my adult son’s account only to discover that it is even worse now with ramped up predictive programming and sorcery. The negativity is so thick, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch anything on tv unless it’s old fashioned comedy. Why even the documentaries seem to spin woke ideologies like the climate scam or will have at least one gay mix raced couple in the story. Inappropriate and sad.
I threw out the TV when my kids turned teens in the late 1990s. 25 years on, they still don't have a TV. Grandchild is screen-free. To me, it's boring bollocks -- I've got better things to do with my life.
What's amazing is that even the kids FEEL it. They are not buying this grey mush the rainbow brigade is selling. It's fascinating to watch. And hopeful too.
Some history about what has happened to North American radio stations since the days of independents in the 60's/70's to present day would make a great topic for a substack. And what about the days of pirate radio from the UK offshore?
Part of it is conglomeratisation (can that be a word?). All of my local stations were locally owned, and locally advertised on. They played what we wanted to hear, or they played to some other genre that was interested, or they went broke. Clear Channel originated here, bought them all up and they turned to shit. Same songs, over and over and over.
I make my own playlists now. Or I listen to Public Radio jazz. Our local PR station is still locally hosted and I actually know them.
Good Lord, I’m old enough to remember when Voice of America broadcast across the world, and echoed the values of freedom and democracy. I grew up listening to VOA on the radio while living in Libya.
Did you then mature to the point where you realized VoA was pathetic propaganda, and that Libya under Gaddafi was about as good a country as you can get?
Things would be a lot cooler if we could just bring back stadium rock.
That might be the answer to the existence of the universe.
Every stripe and color was there and nobody gave a fuck. Being collectively outraged was the point!
What disgust me is that genX had virtually healed all the racial wounds in this country. I mean what a difference between let's say the early 80's and the mid 90's. By the early 90's we had really turned the corner, but that glide path was still not a soft enough landing for the baiters. And it will never be enough. They know that. They know you can never completely solve for hatred because it is a part of the human condition. This would be in the distant past by 2024 had they let the people heal themselves.
So now we are set back at least two generations. And that's what they want, because of course, making perfect the enemy of good with the human condition is as useless as having a game plan of trying to write a perfect thesis or pitch a perfect game.
We had built a solid foundation, although a little "sloppy and disjointed" (as any organic or "drift" movement/ behavior is), that required hands of many colors.
And because of that it must be burned down. The "process" will never satisfy them no matter the results because the intention is to make the process the penalty. The penalty is not to pay a pound of flesh ...oh no.. that's not good business...the process is to make people think a pound of flesh is on auto-renewal...daily.
Why?
Because it aggravates EVERYONE.....so it's good for biz.
And the recurring "revenue" will keep coming in until people figure out it's the Gillette model...without the potential of a perfect "shave".
Glen Beck and Jason Whitlock were speaking of this just this morning inre: to rap music. They have made it mainstream and it is force fed all through media. They likened it to "lyrical porn".
that's an interesting insight.
what we had was a market. what's being shoveled now is a form of soviet style political programming and affirmative action..
i like that.
Gosh, this is super evident in movies as well! It's 1 in a hundred now that speaks to something true and resonant. And those do amazingly well in the theaters. People still hunger for it. But the rest is preachy propaganda. No story, all message. And people can FEEL when they're being led and rebel against it. It's icky.
Very true! I felt sick watching Netflix and thought the shows were dark and brought me down to a very low vibration so I cancelled my subscription… and that was back in 2019! I recently watched a “program” on my adult son’s account only to discover that it is even worse now with ramped up predictive programming and sorcery. The negativity is so thick, I don’t think I’ll ever be able to watch anything on tv unless it’s old fashioned comedy. Why even the documentaries seem to spin woke ideologies like the climate scam or will have at least one gay mix raced couple in the story. Inappropriate and sad.
I threw out the TV when my kids turned teens in the late 1990s. 25 years on, they still don't have a TV. Grandchild is screen-free. To me, it's boring bollocks -- I've got better things to do with my life.
What's amazing is that even the kids FEEL it. They are not buying this grey mush the rainbow brigade is selling. It's fascinating to watch. And hopeful too.
Some history about what has happened to North American radio stations since the days of independents in the 60's/70's to present day would make a great topic for a substack. And what about the days of pirate radio from the UK offshore?
eg: Howard Stern. And Jimmy Kimmel too.
They became famous and rich because they were Pirates.
Then they became Parrots.
I'm sure there's a Jimmy Buffett song about this somewhere.🤔
Part of it is conglomeratisation (can that be a word?). All of my local stations were locally owned, and locally advertised on. They played what we wanted to hear, or they played to some other genre that was interested, or they went broke. Clear Channel originated here, bought them all up and they turned to shit. Same songs, over and over and over.
I make my own playlists now. Or I listen to Public Radio jazz. Our local PR station is still locally hosted and I actually know them.
Local, local, local is always the best.
Good Lord, I’m old enough to remember when Voice of America broadcast across the world, and echoed the values of freedom and democracy. I grew up listening to VOA on the radio while living in Libya.
Did you then mature to the point where you realized VoA was pathetic propaganda, and that Libya under Gaddafi was about as good a country as you can get?
Yeah, about 20 years ago!
Things would be a lot cooler if we could just bring back stadium rock.
That might be the answer to the existence of the universe.
Every stripe and color was there and nobody gave a fuck. Being collectively outraged was the point!
What disgust me is that genX had virtually healed all the racial wounds in this country. I mean what a difference between let's say the early 80's and the mid 90's. By the early 90's we had really turned the corner, but that glide path was still not a soft enough landing for the baiters. And it will never be enough. They know that. They know you can never completely solve for hatred because it is a part of the human condition. This would be in the distant past by 2024 had they let the people heal themselves.
So now we are set back at least two generations. And that's what they want, because of course, making perfect the enemy of good with the human condition is as useless as having a game plan of trying to write a perfect thesis or pitch a perfect game.
We had built a solid foundation, although a little "sloppy and disjointed" (as any organic or "drift" movement/ behavior is), that required hands of many colors.
And because of that it must be burned down. The "process" will never satisfy them no matter the results because the intention is to make the process the penalty. The penalty is not to pay a pound of flesh ...oh no.. that's not good business...the process is to make people think a pound of flesh is on auto-renewal...daily.
Why?
Because it aggravates EVERYONE.....so it's good for biz.
And the recurring "revenue" will keep coming in until people figure out it's the Gillette model...without the potential of a perfect "shave".
Glen Beck and Jason Whitlock were speaking of this just this morning inre: to rap music. They have made it mainstream and it is force fed all through media. They likened it to "lyrical porn".