I rarely write about Hollywood or the film industry, primarily because there is a vast array of analysts and YouTubers in the alternative media that discuss the bizarre behaviors and trespasses of Tinsel Town on a daily basis. They usually have it covered. That said, every once in a while, I find that events in Hollywood reflect a much more pervasive dynamic in our culture and that the bigger picture needs to be addressed.
I also want to be clear that when I say “Hollywood” I am not only referring to the place. I’m referring to the entire corporate empire. I’m including Netflix and other streaming companies that may not work completely out of LA. They are all funded and run by the same people anyway.
Hollywood and the corporate cabal behind it have long sought to be the center of America’s cultural universe. In other words, they are seeking to pervert the dynamic so that life imitates art instead of art imitating life, and if they control all the art then they control people’s perceptions of life.
The concept of “Manufacturing Consent,” posited by people like Noam Chomsky, plays a role here, but I think it goes far beyond that. Rather, Hollywood seeks to not only manufacture consent from the public but also to manufacture the public’s relationship to reality. They don’t just want us to keep our heads down and begrudgingly accept their ideological zealotry; they want us to believe that their way is and always was the only way.
What I see in the film industry today is complete and unfettered propaganda. We have moved beyond the phase of subversively hidden manipulations to a new stage in which the propaganda has become blatant and aggressive. Almost every new movie and television series is rife with leftist distortions. You will be hard-pressed to find any content these days that does not push ideas like:
1) Endless feminist platitudes.
2) Patriarchy and “white privilege.”
3) Ridiculous exaggerations of racism in America (as if nothing has changed since the days of Jim Crow).
4) Oppression of women, rape culture, etc. as if all the tenets of first- and second-wave feminism have not already been accomplished. Depicting oppression of women where none actually exists.
5) Women consistently portrayed as overtly masculine with traits and abilities that defy their biology.
6) Men consistently portrayed as weak and feminine and better off for it.
7) Masculinity, strength, competition and merit portrayed as destructive, “toxic” and outdated.
8) Common positive feminine traits (nurturing, child-rearing, homemaking) portrayed as obsolete or oppressive.
9) Forced and unrealistic diversity, which misrepresents the actual statistical makeup of the U.S. or other Western nations.
10) Saturation of gay and transgender representation — a tiny percentage of the population is made to appear as if it is a vast movement that inhabits every person’s daily experience.
11) Older generations cast as confused and ignorant or removed from film and television completely.
12) Younger people portrayed as wise leaders “cleaning up the messes” of older generations, somehow blessed with extensive knowledge and experience by mere virtue of their youth.
13) History erased and rewritten to reflect modern leftist ideals.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea. None of the concepts above are an accurate reflection of the human world. Instead, they seek to make the outliers into the mainstream, and they seek to take normal human biological and psychological standards and portray them as aberrant and wrong.
And yes, there are cases where Hollywood is dabbling in fantasy and science fiction and this could be used to rationalize some of their odd depictions. That’s not what I am talking about here. I am talking about force-feeding the public an obvious agenda across the full spectrum of storytelling. These are not just movies. These are not just TV shows. This is not just storytelling; this is brainwashing.
Hollywood is not in the business of making art. They are not even in the business of making money anymore. Rather, they are in the business of indoctrination, and this is a fact that many in the alternative media still do not address. Yes, it is a “conspiracy.” Not a conspiracy theory, but conspiracy reality.
Their job is to make the public believe that leftist ideals (or in some cases globalist ideals) are the prevailing ideals. If you see the same lies every day in every depiction of life, you might start to think that your more rational, traditional and grounded views are in the minority. You might begin to self-censor for fear of being ridiculed. You might even join the other side just to avoid being attacked.
In order to maintain control over the propaganda machine a very important factor is ensuring that the faces on the screen are never allowed to deviate from the party line. Your puppet and pet celebrities need to be kept under lock and key.
Like most people, I recently watched Ben Shapiro’s interview with Gina Carano and it basically confirmed everything I already knew about Hollywood (my brief stint as a screenwriter 20 years ago exposed me to the underlying sellout culture and I was repulsed by it). What was striking though was the extent to which the Hollywood corporate elites seek to rape the minds of their employees and force them to submit to the cult. It wasn’t that Carano was fired for posting a historical fact on Twitter, it was everything that happened before that.
Carano mentions that as soon as she began speaking her mind from a conservative position, Disney and Lucasfilm began to bombard her with representatives, publishing agents, etc. whose mission was to convince her to apologize publicly for her statements. They even tried to force her to engage in a browbeating session (known as a struggle session among communists) with 40 trans people because she refused to post her “pronouns” to her Twitter page.
Do you want to know why so many celebrities these days seem so desperate to virtue signal online all the time? It might not be because they agree with the leftists. They may just be trying to keep their jobs and avoid being suffocated by a weaponized mob. What the interview with Gina Carono really revealed to me was the extent to which Hollywood corporations are involved in that mob.
Companies like Disney aren’t following the mob’s lead — instead, they are using the mob as a tool. They are leading the social justice cult, the cult is not leading them as many suggest.
After finishing the Carano interview, I could not stop thinking about a show from the 1960s called The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan. It portrays a man who works for the government and abruptly quits, only to be kidnapped by a nefarious unknown organization and transported to a place called The Village. The Village is a sprawling complex made to look like a happy seaside vacation town on the surface, but underneath it is a vast surveillance grid.
All the people that live there are trapped and watched constantly, and the group that runs The Village uses elaborate mind games to break the prisoners down. The Village operates by turning prisoners into informants and guards; its goal often has nothing to do with making people talk. Instead, the goal is to get prisoners to submit, to get them to love the village and become a part of it. The Village is not a prison, The Village is an experiment, a microcosm of what the elite want for the entire world.
I realized that the way Carano was essentially stalked by her own employers and prodded with struggle sessions and mind games, the way that Hollywood operates behind the scenes, is exactly what leftists and corporate elites intend for the rest of us. It is already happening to some extent. How often have we heard conservatives labeled as “insurrectionists, terrorists and racists” in the past year alone? How many conservatives have been censored by Big Tech platforms? How many have lost their jobs because of their opinions, or simply making factual statements?
The social justice cult and the corporations that control them want the world to be Hollywood. They want that environment of oppression and fear to become the standard. They want everyone to be afraid to speak, disagree or step away from the agenda in any way. Everyone must play their part to perpetuate the fantasy world. Everyone must battle to appear virtuous and pure for the mob. Everyone is an actor, pretending they love their new totalitarian collective.
There is a huge weakness to this strategy, though…
All of it depends on people’s aversion to loss. If you are afraid to lose something, then that something can be used to control you. Carano was not afraid to lose and so she could not be controlled, and I commend her for that. The example she has set for others is far more valuable than any work that she might have done by submitting to the Hollywood Cheka. If only the majority of people would do the same, our civilization would change for the better overnight.
All tyranny is an illusion predicated on fear within the minds of the enslaved, so do not fear.
Brandon Smith
