so in "the power of the powerless" havel writes of a greengrocer that displays the party posters and messages "workers of the world unite!"
the greengrocer does not believe any of it yet displays the signs and slogans anyway because in not doing so he might be seen as a dissenter and taken away to the gulags or worse
"They must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system."
how much woke shit in films and games and other media can be attributed to people scared of the woke such as the greengrocer was of the party?
Eh, much of it isn't even that, it's simply the corruption by things like ESG. They're not scared of being taken to the gulags, or even shunned...they're just worried about not getting their share of the coin.
And of course the lefties would scream "capitalism" here, but the fact is we don't have a free market to begin with. A few woke multinationals captured the market using money
investedborrowed from normies.I'm all for free markets, I'm all for capitalism. But it's sad when, per your example, video games and films can decide to market to Blackrock/Vanguard and, by proxy, a bunch of "investors" who aren't even watching the films.
That's not free market. That's retarded. Sell your shit to us. Live or die by the sword. That's how it should be.