tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post5995983040003082468..comments2024-03-29T00:24:13.128-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : What the Death of Hollywood Means for AmericaDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-49019240173809705302022-07-26T17:19:31.856-04:002022-07-26T17:19:31.856-04:00Dear Anon; Good point. There is a difference
be...Dear Anon; Good point. There is a difference <br />between European elite and commoners. Perhaps<br />more than here, due to European history of the<br />"Royal" class. Tocqueville was impressed by <br />Yank disdain for such.<br /><br />Still, the Frankfurt School brought some elite <br />thought to the American elite. American elite<br />preferred the "historic glow" of Europe to the <br />future oriented optimism of the Yank unwashed.<br /><br />I agree with your main point; most of the bad<br />ideas come from the "Elites", regardless of <br />continent. Thanks for your insight. --ThomasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-75819262018928556802022-07-26T04:46:15.516-04:002022-07-26T04:46:15.516-04:00Thomas
I hate to disillusion you but … the only p...Thomas<br /><br />I hate to disillusion you but … the only people "scorning" those movies were/are elitists (in NY and Washington as much, or more so than, Paris, etc.).<br /><br />The era (the 50’s) when movies still portrayed virtues was a time when even Americans running the show (who had been born and brought up in the 20’s-30’s) were still operating under the ideological and moral/ethical ‘influence’ of the previous hegemony (The Empire). The American hegemony became reality immediately post WW2, and became utterly dominant globally by the sixties.<br /><br />Now look at how successive, increasingly exclusively American generations have ‘progressed’ – from one corruption and degeneracy to the next, ever deeper, sleazier and more depraved.<br /><br />You blame “The Europeans” yet every perversion and depravity destroying civilisation across the world can ultimately be traced back to … America. Feminism, racial, identity, gay , and now trans politics have all been American ‘babies’ (even the “Eugenics” programs so ‘promoted’ by the Germans in WW2 was yours. Adolf really loved those California ideals).<br /><br />Yes, some of those bad ideas have roots elsewhere, but it is only when accepted wholeheartedly by (east/west coast) America, promoted, promulgated, and even enforced by you, that they cause the destruction we see now.<br /><br />You need to accept facts. The American hegemony has done much good throughout the word, but you can’t claim credit whilst denying any responsibility for the utter destruction ‘you’ have spread too.<br /><br />The leftists of east and west coasts don’t even vaguely reflect the reality of the values of real Americans, but you need to understand the truth that neither do the elitists in Rome, Paris, Berlin or London reflect those of Europeans. You blame Europe, whilst forgetting the elitists everywhere have more in common with each other, than they do with their supposed ‘own people’ (similarly, you could take a rural living man/woman from Italy, France, Germany or England and dump them in ‘flyover country’ and other than the dress-sense they’d bend in seamlessly).<br /><br />Enough of the us/them idiocy, there is an us and them but it has almost nothing to do with nationality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-19370959370710583742022-07-26T01:13:27.617-04:002022-07-26T01:13:27.617-04:00There won't be an America is 2522There won't be an America is 2522Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-21336158522661624782022-07-25T19:34:19.928-04:002022-07-25T19:34:19.928-04:00American movies, scorned by Europeans, used to
mak...American movies, scorned by Europeans, used to<br />make you "feel good". One found true love, the <br />crime was solved, our team won, virtue was <br />rewarded. Because we agreed on the meanings of <br />virtue, justice, true love, the stories and <br />characters could find a way to the good feeling. <br />You bought the ticket, watched, and felt good. <br />Simple.<br /><br />But the Europeans knew better: infidelity, <br />cruelty, injustice, meaningless suicide: as <br />the constant, inescapable nature of life.<br />They prided themselves on being able to quaff <br />this bitter elixir of Truth. (Ergo: being <br />better than the Yanks.)<br /><br />Our coastal elites have become the Euros they<br />have long admired. And Hollywood is Yucky.<br /><br />ThomasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-65729546481739418592022-07-25T11:10:04.806-04:002022-07-25T11:10:04.806-04:00"bewildering amount of content"
Quantity..."bewildering amount of content"<br />Quantity over quality.<br /><br />CCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-37453164545432414212022-07-25T09:53:52.403-04:002022-07-25T09:53:52.403-04:00EXCELLENT article, as always!EXCELLENT article, as always!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-70140135283803141962022-07-25T09:51:37.749-04:002022-07-25T09:51:37.749-04:00Most streaming "services" only produce m...Most streaming "services" only produce marginally entertaining shows with little or no direction in the story except the eventual fizzle out and death. All now have the usual suspects ,.. lgbt, trannies, interracial sex, drug addiction, etc., and, if not shown outright, implied. They've also become the bait and switch con artists of this era by allowing you to watch part of a movie or season "for free" then attempting to charge you for the remaining half of the movie or season. Plus, most shows are simply tiresome. Maybe one episode or part of an episode will be good, then it falls apart. Sometimes a movie or series will be propped up by one or two very good actors, but many of these simply cease to exist midstream. It is truly sad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-89752275735026679792022-07-25T07:33:23.047-04:002022-07-25T07:33:23.047-04:00Final exam question for an American History class ...Final exam question for an American History class in 2522:<br />How was the leftward shift of Hollywood responsible for the decline of the petrodollar as a major world currency? Describe in less than 100 words employing at least two examples.boronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780356895910449471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4060149634646136062022-07-25T06:55:40.697-04:002022-07-25T06:55:40.697-04:00As a non-American, with all due respect, Hollywood...As a non-American, with all due respect, Hollywood has ‘always’ been “a mass propaganda machine feigning popular support for a regime”. <br /><br />Hollywood, from its inception, has been the de facto propaganda arm of the US government and dominant cultural ‘elites’. Nothing more, nothing less. Consider any film it produced from the perspective of either a foreigner (of any other country), or someone who believed in basic truth, honesty and facts, and you will be forced to admit just how manipulative, biased and counter-factual it has always been. (Re-writing history is something of an American speciality as it sought to do to The British Empire what Rome did to Carthage).<br /><br />It was just that that regime was a more conservative one, and those elitists employed by/in it were (even whilst leftist in orientation were still) American-centric. They were happy to peddle false narratives, perspectives and blatant lies, but only those that still left America as top-dog (just with ‘their people’ in charge).<br /><br />Now the regime and cultural elitists are both extreme left, and Hollywood views themselves as aligned purely with ‘woke’ globalist ideals. They don’t, even vaguely, view themselves as American any more. So? Is it any surprise that they now present material that portrays America in the same way as it has the rest of the world for decades?<br /><br />Their core audiences are now fellow globalists, China and the (deviant) fellow-travellers they exclusively mix with in their gated enclaves. They don’t care what you say or think. (You see the same in the British BBC, where their only contact with any other white person, in predominantly foreign/non-white London, is with fellow elites. Which is why, by output, you’d expect England was 90% black/asian and 50% gay which is so far from the truth as to be laughable).<br /><br />As an outsider, it’s interesting to note that the “reworking” is merely the latest of many – first was to make all heroes American, then came women, then black, then homosexual and now … they’ve run out of ‘victim’ groups so they now aim to demonise anyone not one of such.<br /><br />It’s also ‘amusing’ to watch the outrage of normal Americans who suddenly realise … the “bad guys” aren’t Russians, or even English, any more they’re … us.<br /><br />So? No, the world (and I’d suggest America too) will ‘not’ even vaguely “be poorer” for Hollywood’s well deserved, and cannot happen soon enough, demise.<br /><br />Much as so many of the recent revelations have shown "journalism" to not only be currently biased, fraudulent, ideologically driven liars, but, it can be seen, that ... they were always so, Hollywood's reality has similarly been revealed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-36925289823566219402022-07-25T06:05:03.702-04:002022-07-25T06:05:03.702-04:00Biden is senile but hardly a reactionary. Biden...Biden is senile but hardly a reactionary. Biden's model of 'public service' is the same as Clinton, Warren and the rest of the Nazicrats. Leverage and abuse the advantages bestowed by public offices for personal gain behind a facade of spewing out the cliches and platitudes of concern for public welfare. The perfect setup for this is the green scam that will be the repository for $b's in public money into policy and delivery failures but will make its investors rich but will deliver nothing but debt. <br /><br />That was a World Bank model that served its executives well. Build massive useless infrastructure in the 3rd world, indebting the people, whilst serving a corporate interest that exploits some finite local natural resource. It is perhaps Karma to see former policies used to milk the 3rd world now being used on the 1st world to do the same to thing to itself. Globalism means there are no countries but just vested interests of the elites. <br /><br />Much like Gates that sold software that didn't work or was engineered to fail thus tying its users into endless upgrades.<br /> <br />When Hollywood stopped being an entertainment industry and became a self-appointed organ of political policy was when it failed American culture. If you look at public policy like some sort of movie it is bound to fail and stunts the public mind into an intellectual stupor that can't debate out a policy decision using empirical data, a now lost art, used long before all this crap took hold.<br /><br />Jonty DeeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com