Comments by "" (@johnwattdotca) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. There is a technological reason movies are having less impact than they used to. When people were only seeing movies in theaters, seeing this technology for the first time, they were having difficulty separating the actors in the movies with the roles they played, a new kind of artificial realism that overwhelmed senses. People who played "bad people" had a hard time in public, being perceived as their movie character, not as the person they were. Rudolph Valentino, seen as being the first male sex symbol in movies, became so caught up with his movie image he refused to leave a party or public event to urinate, wanting to be thought of as above ordinary men, and he died from a disease you get from holding it in. Now that non-movie people can make their own videos and take their own photos, and watch them without attending movie theaters, movies have less of a hypnotic effect and it's easier to see the actors as ordinary people. As far as all of that helping citizens see through government brain-washing for political and military gain, that's only a good thing.
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