Comments by "beingsshepherd" (@beingsshepherd) on "Why Modern Movies Suck - They're Destroying Our Heroes" video.

  1. It can all be traced back to the elephant in the room: our failure to have put even a dent in Washington's Iraq war machine. The collective will of we people of conscience around the world counted for nothing against the unstoppable rise of the waterboarding NeoCons, and to this very day no answer even in hindsight has emerged. The cataclysmic collapse of Leftist confidence has engendered a vacuum for the avaricious and envious to thrive by window dressing establishment propaganda.
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  2. They keep telling us that the government's obedient troops are the heroes. Whereas the Jedis of this world are now conspiracy theorists and terrorists.
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  3. ... to provoke a cathartic cultural revolution ... that in no way affects the Occidental power structure.
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  4. Julian Assange.
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  5. They're purging the world of negativity, which is bad for capitalism.
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  6. Imo it's a bigger issue than just film making. Many complain the same thing of popular culture wholesale. As the late American philosopher Hubert Dreyfus declared a few years ago, the Western psyche has now permanently changed and there's no going back.
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  7. They're essentially all David vs Goliath stories, along with BTTF, Karate Kid, Aliens and even Die Hard (ironically). The trouble is that these days the public regard Davids as "terrorists" and the regime's stormtroops "heroes".
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  8. I wonder how many underdog-lovers here support Julian Assange over Uncle Sam and his cronies? Western society now worships sheer might over justice and the little guy, which is what we now see in much entertainment fiction too.
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  9. The medium is the message.
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  10. oO(Is he talking about Luke Skywalker or The Critical Drinker?)
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  11. So have the public. Who writes letters anymore? Why are baby-killing troops so popular? Why do gamers have an insatiable demand for more polygons?
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  12. Conservatives played their part with the global "War on Terror" crusade.
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  13. When the public stop paying for more.
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  14. Michael Bloomberg's presidential run.
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  15. Thank goodness you can all agree on tech worship, rapacity, vainglory and drone-killing poor brown people.
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