I understand and accept the fact that I, a somewhat older, been-around-the-block-a-few-times white guy, am more or less representative of a certain kind of odious, old-schoolish, Italian suede lace-up elitism, aging-fartaholic delusions and repressive evil in the world of 2022, and that if I had any grace or humility I would hang my head and acknowledge that my general way of seeing things is kinda sorta bad…basically an over-and-done-with ethos and even destructive in some ways…just ask Bob “bolt of lightning” Strauss.
And so there’s only one decent thing to do, and that’s to acknowledge the inherent saintliness or at least the moral-ethical superiority of all non-WASPy types and let nature takes its cleansing and benevolent course.
From Sasha Stone‘s “The Day the Movies Died…Again,” posted on 11.27.22:
“The micro-managing of Hollywood by activists is” — stop if anyone has heard this before — “killing its product.
“It’s making them feel like anything that features a strong male hero is somehow ‘bad’ because hetero men, usually white, must always be the enemy. I watched Barbarian, which I loved, but of course that movie’s message could only be: white men bad. It is almost always the case now — only the villains can be white and everyone else is saintly. Does no one think there is something weird about that or are they just too afraid to say so because they’ll be called a racist?
“They believe this ideology is universally shared, but it isn’t. It is the status quo among an insulated group, but doesn’t represent what the majority in this country thinks or wants.
“I’ve been writing about this for a while now and it’s not easy to talk about. Most people just don’t want to confront what has happened to the film industry, even if almost everyone knows that something dramatic changed — and that something has turned people off. Even if the movies themselves don’t have activist-driven content, the Hollywood brand means that’s what they’re going to anticipate – so they’ll avoid it and wait for streaming.”
Cue “Castor Troy, Jr.“, “Lean Pantaloon” and “jjhunsecker“: “Whoa, wait a minute….where exactly is the hard, incontrovertible proof that this so-called micro-managing of Hollywood by activists is an actual thing? And who the hell is this Out of Frame guy? What the hell does he know?
“We three know one thing, and that’s that Sasha and Jeff and this fucking Out of Frame guy need to prove their thesis chapter and verse to us because, you know, we’re free souls and with free minds, and we’re highly skeptical.”