I like winding down with shitty old B movies or TV shows so the other night I watched "The Night the World Exploded" from 1957 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050767/) It was a giant feast of "expert" worship and environmental paranoia that wouldn't be that out of place today.
Plot synopsis: a Top Scientist has invented a device to predict earthquakes. Amazingly enough, hours after completing the device, it's already picking up indications of a massive earthquake later that day. He is immediately given access to the governor who, begrudgingly, tells the Top Scientist that although he wants to, he can't evacuate cities and bring in the military on his say-so alone.
Naturally the earthquake happens, the governor apologizes, and brings in the Top Scientist to advise. Top Scientist warns that his device is already picking up major indications of imminent global catastrophe, and needs to bring in Top Scientists from around the world to enact a plan to save the planet.
Turns out that the earthquakes are being caused by mankind's extraction of resources. Mining and oil wells being the biggest problem. Naturally the Top Scientists are able to mobilize an effective worldwide campaign to prevent disaster, after being granted 100% authority over military resources.
The whole thing could have been written by a modern climate cultist, with carbon being the villain instead of earthquakes. The only thing that hasn't "aged well" by modern standards was that the lead actor and actress fall in love at the end. But the rest is naked agenda: human beings are destroying the planet, and we need to give dictatorial powers to "experts" to save us.
Pretty much anything post 1945 is going to have some degree of that corruption. Especially when it comes to hollywood, which was doing a good deal of that since its inception.
JOOLYWOOD was always from the j-bois, now the internet just made the noticing unstoppable...
Well they did run away to California with the cameras and other Edison Company equipment so they wouldn't have to pay usage fees.
Oh sure, there's lots of science worship in the last 80 years of entertainment. Even most of modern sci-fi has "science" that's indistinguishable from magic.
This one was just really on-the-nose for a 1950s' sci-fi disaster B-movie. Science infallible, also Top Science Man infallible and should save us from ourselves.
soyence is a great tool to shut down the ignorant population, specially when academia, which is also controlled by them, is just a big rewards program for right-think
My grandma, born in the 1920's, always called it "Hellywood"
A lot of this is a direct response to the industrialization era. Once you got away from an agrarian economy (where you could be independent and grow your own food on your own farms and where land ownership was king), Everything became a factor of centralization and that begats control by various resources - either economic or labor, etc;
Marxist wasn't a communist because he cared about the people - Marxist wanted control of the means of production "to benefit mankind". What's the mean? Whomever is in charge that wants it to mean. That's why Hitler's socialist economic successes were lauded by the communists worldwide as the new model of human progress - until Hitler told them to suck an egg and they've spent every day since demonizing him for wrongthink.
That's why the whole communist/socialist system is evil and biogted. it always results in one, or a small cadre of people, enforcing their ideolog onto others - and almost always resulting millions of deaths for the greater good.
Marx's own behavior refutes the idea that he "cared about the people". You will not be able to find anyone who does, but in his case it was more obvious that in that of others.
His ideas were a logical outgrowth of his presuppositions. Namely that there would be ever greater concentrations of capital and that this would result in ordinary people being ever more immiserated. Ultimately, they would 'seize the means of production' so they and not just the owners of capital would benefit from it.
This was pretty crazy at the time that he proposed it, and while some people who admit that Marx was wrong still want to give him credit for exposing the bad conditions of working people - that mostly came from official documents and inquiries of the British government, many quite old even by that time.
However, the idea itself is not impossible. Just imagine a future where automation reaches such heights that the people who control general AI arrogate to themselves all surplus and ordinary people are left to starve because their labor isn't worth much anymore. I don't think it's likely, but it's not impossible. In that case, it is obvious what people would do.
A ton of media from Hollywood is like that. One that some people might not notice is "The Day The Earth Stood Still".
Hollywood Was Always Red
Fuck me, he was right!
Directed by Fred F Sears.
Producer Sam Katzman:
Written by Jack Natteford and his wife.
Just to be clear, this is basically the process whenever I "check" something for subversive intent, it always turns out the same way. That is why they say "every single time".
6% of the global population and 2% of the American population should not be separated by 1 degree or less from literally every single piece of western culture propaganda.
And those 6% and 2% figures are grossly inflated because obviously only a certain % of the total jewish population anywhere are actually directly involved in cultural export.
Queue Imp "I couldn't help but notice his WIFE was a FEMALE" :P
I think you conveniently 'forget' whenever it is not the case. Or you label a random Nordic or German name as 'Jewish'. You also 'forget' whenever it's Jews fighting for what is right.
I mean, this isn't surprising. Hollywood is run by mostly Jewish people, and it's a nepotistic shithole. But if I were interested in playing "Jewspotting" I could also cherry pick good, non-subversive movies.
My main focus was that The Message hasn't changed much in 70 years.
Fair point
It's changed in that it used to be much more subtle. I think, but can't vouch for it, that communist sympathizers were told to insert very small messages into their works promoting their ideology., Now it's just a movielong sermon,.
Watching the Lethal Weapon movies is fucking hilarious at how blatant they are in trying to push the same anti-gun rhetoric as they are now. Riggs is the only sane person. Notice he stops an elementary school shooting in the first appearance and is marked as crazy, forced into mandatory therapy, and Danny Glover is constantly on his stupid "I try to shoot them in the leg" bullshit spiel. Not to mention all the apartheid boycott nonsense and the anti-gun propaganda posters in the police station in one of them, I think the one where Murtagh's son has a friend that he ends up killing because the kid gets a gun and shoots at him. Which, sure it's tragic, but the guns aren't the issue. Which places have the most stringent gun laws? Cali, Chiraq, etc. Which has the most gun crime? The places where there's a gun buy back program, where citizens can't legally own certain guns and/or normal capacity magazines, and thugs know that, so that's who they target.
It feels like any sane environmental discussion e Stopped being possible years ago. Acting like any energy but solar or wind is evil is destroying the planet is ridiculous along with convincing the youth that the world will end due to climate change
Both solar and wind cause more pollution than modern thorium nuclear reactors, too, while producing far less electricity.
The idea that resources were going to run out was in the Zeitgeist then, and actually lasted into 1980.
Just to play devil's advocate: how do we distinguish between propaganda and a moviemaker trying to make a buck off of something that is in the Zeitgeist? It could be both, of course.
One fairly easy test is that someone trying to make a buck will make it entertaining so that people will pay them to see it.
Ideology-driven propagandists generally aren't very good at being subtle (or entertaining).
It's been this way since the end of the second world war. Even before it, in fact.
Our rulers are still selected by the same mafia of rockefeller and rothschild bankers.
I doubt anyone was complaining about 'sexism' at the time.
Most B movies have pretty low scores. That's kind of the point. It was never going to be an Oscar contender, even with its pushing of The Message.
Feminist indoctrination has been in our culture for over 100 years. Where did you think the disaster known as prohibition came from? Or the dietry advice disaster uncovered by Gary Taubes?
Even things like the white feather campaign were successfully waged by women despite being "oppressed" by the "patriarchy".
Before the scare of a warmer world, there were posters from the 50s to 70s of the world freezing over. Flipped script.
The risks and dangers of man's actions, especially as it relates to technology, has almost always been a prevalent subject in science fiction.
Science fiction writers, as a matter of genre and subject, typically try to ask the bigger questions about humanity and its relationship with scientific discovery and technological advance. Sometimes executed with elegant finesse, other times a painful blunder with laughably crude and cringe results, all the way back to the beginning.
Well, it was the era of smog in L.A. being cracked down upon. This included oil wells, which littered the area (and somewhat still do). The drilling process was known to cause minor quakes and subsiding even back then. Something the fracking industry has conveniently been able to make people forget today. Throw in the west-coast rich starting to buy up estates in the country running up against mining companies, including the Hearst family, the biggest media propagandists of the first half of the 20th century.
So, in conclusion, being a propaganda film from the era of hollywood becoming awakened to their own problems in the time when American Scientists were still considered living gods (the atomic age), of course something like this was going to get made.