The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

In just a few generations, Hollywood has descended into a self-referential malaise that treats itself as the arbiter of all things, and has contempt for the people who actually fund their activities. You know... the shrinking population of Americans who go to the movies. They insist upon making movies that do not engage their former customers, preferring to make us uncomfortable with an unending litany of leftist talking points. Gay is wonderful! Transexualism is even better! America sucks. White men are evil. Women are better at everything, and black and Hispanic women trump them all!

And that's just a short list. Gone are the days of even grudging respect for traditional American values...family, church, country are punch lines now. And with an entire industry untethered from its customers, and desperately pushing the most caustic, antisocial, anti-traditional themes possible, is it any wonder that we have the best actress award winner enthusiastic about....hookers?

Mikey Madison wins best actress for 'Anora'

"I also just want to, again, recognize and honor the sex worker community," she said. "I will continue to support and be an ally. All of the incredible people, the women, that I've had the privilege of meeting from that community have been one of the highlights of this entire incredible experience."

And not just enthusiastic. Supportive! Because being a "sex worker" (what a vile euphemism) in Hollywood's warped and twisted worldview is pretty much just like going to school and becoming a physician, or accountant, or doing the most important work on earth bearing and raising children.

We should honor them? How? Give awards for best alleyway BJ? Or maybe there should be two awards...one for quality and one for quantity. And maybe there should be a category for bestiality? Pulling trains? All the stuff that is most valued in women by Hollywood.

In a sane world in which women are actually respected, rather than considered only according to their genitalia and what they do with them, prostitution would be seen as a terrible consequence of lives gone wrong. Our culture would work to make prostitution -- an incredibly debasing life -- something to be shunned, and a life out of which we should help people.

Instead, Hollywood rejects objective morality and simple decency and revels in the degradation of our humanity. How else to continue their and their masters' work at the destruction of traditional American culture? But concurrent with that almost total detachment from their audience and their revenue stream is the increasing disinterest in their product. Most Americans don't much care about the politics of a bunch of rich, under-educated mimics who seem to think that because they are good at memorizing dialogue, their nasty opinions about the President and fascism and transgender lunacy are important -- and should be shoved down our throats at every opportunity. And don't forget Ukraine! The darling of every ignorant fool to walk that red carpet, unless they like Hamas more!

The movie industry is barrelling toward collapse, and they are too stupid to see it. Revenue has been down since 2019, and when corrected for inflation the numbers are even worse. Hopefully some of the slack will be taken up by small independent studios that will respond with a product that Americans actually want to see. But they will need to recognize the change that is in the air!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X]

posted by CBD at 11:00 AM

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