“The bottom line is that the erratic pursuit of sweeping, penetrating, soul-touching art (a rare achievement but one that has occasionally manifested over the decades) has been more or less called off, it seems, because such films or aspirations, in the view of progressives, don’t serve the current woke-political narrative.
“And that’s it — that’s the whole magillah. Hollywood became captive to the ‘increasingly niche taste’ crowd, which is a community that lives in its own progressive realm and is engaged in a campaign of social change, and this is why most of those who used to regard the Oscars as an annual event that mattered to some extent…this is why the vast majority of average, woke-averse Americans, who have lots of stuff to watch and who don’t necessarily share the values of the aggressive progessives, have basically said “fuck those people…they live on their own planet, and for the most part are focused on their own values and goals, which we don’t feel a burning need to align with, no offense.” — “Increasingly Niche Tastes,” posted on 9.9.21.