My older brother is the reason that I got into "nerd culture" since I read his sci-fi books as a kid as well as his comic books before I started collecting my own. Also, before he got too old for it we watched G.I. Joe religiously (imagine that cartoon on today). He a wife and three kids now so he is out of the loop for a lot of geek stuff, so when I told him that Amazon was going to have a Lord of the Ring show we both got a good laugh because the first thing he said was "so how long before the articles bashing Tolkien or whining about lack of diversity start"
It is so funny because with all the reboots/sequels I swear it is like clockwork to see articles from supposed life long fans of something that now "realize" all the racism/sexism in the original show/movie. I remember the gushing critic articles for Ghostbusters 2016 and it has only become worse since. I'm currently on the last book of Wheel of Time series and I've already seen articles calling it sexist and complaining about abuse to women. That whole Geeker Gate thing was spot on.
I've honestly given up on modern entertainment. There's a lot in the old times to appreciate. No need to give money to diversicrats or even to watch their propaganda.
That said, I probably will pirate Amazon's LOTR just to see, but having looked at the characters - who looked like Retard School - I am probably not going to be very interested.
I'm sorry to say, but Macron is right. America is corrupting the world. You are the Mordor, but fortunately populated by something besides Orcs (SJWs).
It's worse than that I think. For so long, American culture has been a corner stone of the west, You get 80s American tv shows in former USSR countries just coming out of the break up and everyone is copying stuff from that. This matters because that's been ingrained for such a long time, that when US culture started to degenerate and go into a purity spiral like it is now, it drags every other country with it. It's why you have Antifa set up in other countries, people in Britain marching for BLM. When you have a culture that's regressing and collapsing in on itself, it drags everything into it like a black hole.
Very well stated.
Except for the part where antifa literally existed in Europe first. And all of the intellectuals responsible for modern leftist doctrine came from Europe. Just because America imported this shit and enabled it with free speech doesn't mean Europe is not to blame.
The racial and gender components of modern leftism are obviously more pronounced in America. Cultural Marxism was a necessary pivot in the States because American workers were anti-communist. In Europe, this pivot was unnecessary because Marxism was already mainstream.
I know you like to blame non-jews however you can. Call them Bolsheviks if you must. But don't pretend that all of this began in the 60s with American college students.
It wasn't even that American workers were anti-communist, but specifically that they didn't respond to class warfare rhetoric. That was because the communists never quite understood America and the fact that it was not a well-established nation-state with a contracting middle class. When communism first showed up on American shores the country was still expanding so there was still room for class mobility. Even into the 1950s the G.I. Bill created a path to the middle class for millions.
Only now that the country has more or less filled up and the frontier is closed do people start responding to the rhetoric of class warfare -- because it actually applies. Of course by now the establishment has switched to using racist rhetoric instead. Doesn't matter, though. The working class knows who their actual oppressors are, and it sure ain't "wypipo".
Yeah, but our Antifa was fighting against the literal Nazis, while your Antifa beats up old men crossing the street.
Europe is definitely to blame. But this recent form it's coming out of your country, however you based in on prior European ideas. Almost all bad ideas come out of Europe, since almost all ideas originate in Europe.
Yet Marxism did not manage to take over any country. In fact, most European countries have a privatized postal service, while you still have a socialist postal service. Same for the railways. That is not Marxism, you know.
I like to blame regressives and SJWs, no matter whether they are Jews or non-Jews, while you want to blame Jews, no matter if they are regressives or not.
I don't believe any ethnic group is inherently good or bad. All of them are a mix of good and bad. The good ones should be praised, and the bad ones condemned. I'm not sure what is so hard about that.
Didn't our Antifa make the Nazis look like a less insane alternative to a lot of people, though? Not unlike a certain american incarnation.
The violence certainly helped the Nazis in that way. But it was not as much Antifa that scared the living hell out of the Germans, but the Bolsheviks themselves.
Yeah. And it's not Antifa that scares the shit of everyone right of Mao right now in America. Remember these are soyboys you wouldn't trust to deliver your mail throuth a field of blooming flowers. It's the democratic party (and whatever is associated with the current push for authocraty) and all the shenanigans they have going on. Antifa just makes them more afraid.
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Foucault and Derrida were French.
It's a rootless internationalist problem. Commies are everywhere. The foreign and domestic threats need to be handled simultaneously.
Rootless cosmopolitans, as Vissarion Belinski called them.
I've been reading Friedrich List, and "cosmopolitan" is the word he favors too. He derides Adam Smith, JB Say, Columbia University, and others of that era with it.
Spez: I looked up the etymology for cosmopolitan. It's Greek. Cosmo is world and polite is citizen. "Citizen of the world" is a degenerate english vulgarization.
Not to be too pedantic, but I am pretty sure that 'kosmos' means order. But it became to be used for 'world', because of the idea that the world is a beautifully ordered whole (cf. cosmetic).
Cosmopolitan definitely means 'world-citizen' though. Although of course, someone who is a citizen of the world, is a citizen of no place. Hence 'rootless'. Rootlesseness defines these human auto-immune citizens who do nothing but try to tear down the country that gave them the wealth and leisure to tear it down.
I live for pendantry.
A man to my taste.
Yeah, they were. They were mostly ignored in Europe. Less so in America. Especially in the past few years when your racial nonsense has metastasized.
And that's the problem. Europe didn't do ENOUGH to discredit them.
On that I agree. We exported our poison to you, and you ran with it. I wasn't trying to play the blame game, but I am frustrated that our own chickens have come to roost.
It happens. I mean, look what happened to Russia. They didn't properly gulag a certain Marxist and Germany made good use of them to knock Russia out of the Great War.
[WAR OF WRATH INTENSIFIES]
They owe it to you to liberate you from this totalitarian menace, after you liberated them - and the rest of us - from the previous one.
France has its own problems. The only ones who can liberate America from tyranny are Americans.
I made a decision a few years ago to only read or watch stuff from 2014 or prior with a few exceptions. I love going to used book stores and seeing a ton of sci-fi/fantasy books from 50s to 2000. Same thing with back issues at comic book stores.
Honestly there is such a back catalogue of stellar work that you won't ever have time to explore it all.
Exactly. As a heavy reader of books and comic books I see that every time I go to the used book store
I'm collecting movies, games and now starting on books that are pre-2014. It has been great for my moral.
Anything after 2014 I consider to be garbage until proven otherwise
It is effectively a requirement to be a data hoarder these days. Between problematic content, cancel culture, subscription services, and DMCA any media you don't personally collect is as good as gone.
Macron is part of the same swamp he has always been a globalist pushing sjw progressivism the only reason he said stuff against the woke now is because the election is coming up and le pen is gaining big popularity
Trust me, I know Macron. I know what he is.
The fact that this is where the wind is blowing is promising though.
Man, I still remember one dumbass argument I saw gossip journos peddle when it came to Ghostbusters 2016: "The original wasn't even that good to begin with."
"The original wasn't even that good to begin with."
... then why remake it and try to trade on its reputation? They don't even think one sentence ahead, do they?
So true. I always want to ask these shills that if the originals are so horrible why not make an original movie that is successful
And don’t forget after Last Jedi how they said Empire Strikes Back was hated when it came out.
There's some remakes out there that improve upon the original, so there's that.
Yes! That’s another golden oldie they pull out.
Yellowstone is a good modern show.
If you're looking for good shows, "modern" isn't the first place to look. We have a million years of aired television, I'm sure some of it is good.
I wish I could figure my brother out, I'd be willing to bet similar to yours in that he's fully left politically, but not really otherwise. Talk about politics, it's all oh I'm so glad I didn't vote for a racist, free healthcare, guns suck, etc.
With his family, I haven't seen anything to even slightly suggest trying to make his kid into a girl, let's him play with nerf guns, violent video games, etc. Even encourages things other than sit and feed off the YouTube. Will wear a mask and follow Covid rules because a conformist, but doesn't behave in any way that suggests fear of the virus. Just for whatever reason can't question the rules.
The sad part is I don't think people with this mindset are going to question narrative at schools, for one, therefore extra brainwashing. Also is about to move to a liberal infested area from a red state. I think/hope there's a rude awakening, but not holding my breath.
For me, I just don't get it. Seem to have head on straight but the second politics get involved worship the left. It doesn't make sense.
Most of my friends are on the left, they do not like woke stuff in movies, they do not like the anti-white policies, they do not like the push for trans children.
They also believe Republicans are against gays, racists, evil etc.
They do not seem to notice a huge connection between the left and woke stuff/ identity politics and they do not care enough about it to vote with the side of pure evil.
But at least we have enough of a middle ground to remain good friends. I hide my politics at work but not in my private life.
My brother is right of center actually our whole family is that way. I do have plenty of leftie cousins though.
That's good at least. I could certainly see him saying something about a show like that, but the second you get near a politician it's all left
If you haven't had your faith in mainstream media duly shattered by some personal flashpoint, it makes sense that you'd swallow everything they say. Gamergaters watched the mainstream media lie in real time about things we could verify with our own eyes. That sort of experience isn't something you can simply hand off to other people. They need to experience it themselves.
I'm just going to state the obvious: You guys know that 90% of the articles screeching about racism/sexism are cooked up to drive traffic, right? And I'm not talking about traffic to the site that publishes them, but rather to increase awareness about the product they're complaining about so you'll go consume it. You DO realize that, don't you?
In the last twenty years we've seen such an uptick in angry ranting media precisely because they know what you don't: pitting half the audience against itself drives engagement better than anything else. That this also causes them to become polarized and engage in tossing firebombs is apparently an acceptable cost of doing business for them.
The solution to all of this is to stop consuming corporate culture altogether. Doesn't matter if they're making things you find acceptable -- don't buy it. Stop buying. No, really, STOP FUCKING BUYING. Get a hobby that doesn't involve wasting money on buying shit you don't need.
Thss as is the very reason I pretty much read or watch stuff from 2014 or prior
{Braid tugging intensifies)
The books are basically a harem anime. You even have the tsundere, kuudere, and deredere archetypes in the harem.
See, THAT'S a valid "complaint" about it, not... "abuse to women". They all know they're in the harem role, and they're all more or less cool with it, from what I've seen. Consent was informed, and given.
These days, when a movie, game or show from a popular franchise comes out.. its hilarious that the first thing we think of is how they gonna fuck it up.
Like the new mortal kombat movie. They boast how diverse it is and how mortal kombat has such diversity of characters. These people dont realize that people liked mortal kombat because of its violence and cheeziness lol.
Seems there are only gonna be 2 types of movies.. ones with diverse gender/sex swap and ones with that milla jinovich.
I'm not surprised your older brother sees it. What I'm worried about is that it seems like the young Gen Z types *don't see it and more or less accept it as part of their "normal" the same way they accept the Internet and smartphones. They were born when it was already established - there was no era they can reference themselves to like us older millennial/Gen X types do.
That lack of reference makes them way more susceptible to dumb fucking ideas like "gender is a social construct".
The only modern entertainment I consume tends to be Japanese.