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.
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.