The Collapse of Woke Hollywood

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For decades, Disney had effectively seemingly controlled the board designed to oversee its own properties. Until DeSantis stepped in recently and put a stop to it. Now a new report from the replacement board has shown just how corrupt Disney’s arrangement was. And how both entities took advantage of taxpayers to foot the bill for their cozy relationship.

The report found that Disney had promised to build services including hospitals, schools and libraries as part of their obligations under their special governing arrangement. Sure enough, they built none of it. It also described what Disney had achieved as essentially an “absolute monarchy” over the Florida property.

 

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Disney is the New Enron​

The Devil Mouse has been very, very, very naughty. But instead of getting coal in its stocking this Christmas season, it’s getting an audit of the Reedy Creek Improvement District by the State of Florida, and almost certainly, the IRS, as the Dark Herald explains how and why the wolves are circling CEO Bob Iger.

 

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It was the taxman that got Al Capone eventually, looks like Disney might be going the same way, Hopefully.
 

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I never tire of reflecting on that slice of wisdom.
Zappa would know of course. He was one of the illusion makers. The book - 'weird scenes inside the canyon', is a big eye opener, as regards the manufacture of entertainment for control purposes. A military operation. Zappa and others came from strong military and intelligence backgrounds.
 

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Zappa would know of course. He was one of the illusion makers. The book - 'weird scenes inside the canyon', is a big eye opener, as regards the manufacture of entertainment for control purposes. A military operation. Zappa and others came from strong military and intelligence backgrounds.
Thanks for the heads up on that, might get myself a copy.
 

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Thanks for the heads up on that, might get myself a copy.
It's informative, but not very well written. I believe it may have been a series of articles before getting to book form. But the presence of endless money, access to fancy homes and intelligence operatives is fascinating
 

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Zappa would know of course. He was one of the illusion makers. The book - 'weird scenes inside the canyon', is a big eye opener, as regards the manufacture of entertainment for control purposes. A military operation. Zappa and others came from strong military and intelligence backgrounds.
And of course, we now know who controls the US military, based on recent events.

The military utility, as regards Hollywood's role in secularizing the culture, becomes more obvious as a vector for making post-Christian support for Israel's actions more acceptable, versus a western world/culture that is still Christian, and would consider the Holy Land a Christian site, primarily .
 

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For where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of all significant effect and reduced to the level of a banality, philosophy will never prosper. -Pieper
Who's Pieper and what kind of waffle is that?
 
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Who's Pieper and what kind of waffle is that?


“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/754022-mu-e-und-kult

Very intellectual. Seems to be of a C19th mentality, these sentiments are often seen from late in that century as mechanisation was turned on culture and social organisation. Harshly critical of scientism and social materialism.

Think of being crushed between the slides of a specimen prepared for a microscope. Obsession with career and Instaglam vacations are merely distractions from the pain of being crushed under the thin plates of glass - the vision of the enormity and wonder of life (expressed in the spiritual life) being blinded all the better to make us pliable like geldings under the yolk.

Something along those lines. His words have power. Would explain why drug use (and other bewildering uses of ourselves) has proliferated to such a degree.
 

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“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/754022-mu-e-und-kult

Very intellectual. Seems to be of a C19th mentality, these sentiments are often seen from late in that century as mechanisation was turned on culture and social organisation. Harshly critical of scientism and social materialism.

Think of being crushed between the slides of a specimen prepared for a microscope. Obsession with career and Instaglam vacations are merely distractions from the pain of being crushed under the thin plates of glass - the vision of the enormity and wonder of life (expressed in the spiritual life) being blinded all the better to make us pliable like geldings under the yolk.

Something along those lines. His words have power. Would explain why drug use (and other bewildering uses of ourselves) has proliferated to such a degree.
I have no idea what any of that means.

My apologies Sir.
 

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More here on the role of popular music as an energy release valve for disgruntled citizens, not to mention a vehicle for devil worship:

“An FBI internal memo from 1968 mentions the employment of the Grateful Dead as an avenue ‘to channel youth dissent and rebellion into more benign and non-threatening directions.’ [They] performed a vital service in distracting many young persons into drugs and mysticism, rather than politics.” – Jim Keith

 

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Hollywood produced only many crap movies for many years. We'd rent them on video cassette and speed/skip view them on FFwd and put them back in the box, took a few years to finally give up on 'Movies' and then -
We learned how to entertain Ourselves and forgot about Absurd Hollywood and how pathetic we were . . .
:unsure: HHmmmmmmm
Those repetitive themes that really were none of our business . . . . .
 

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Hollywood produced only many crap movies for many years. We'd rent them on video cassette and speed/skip view them on FFwd and put them back in the box, took a few years to finally give up on 'Movies' and then -
We learned how to entertain Ourselves and forgot about Absurd Hollywood and how pathetic we were . . .
:unsure: HHmmmmmmm
Those repetitive themes that really were none of our business . . . . .
I could count on both hands the total amount of movies I've seen in my life.
I think I've been to the cinema about 4 times and the other few were on TV.
 

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I could count on both hands the total amount of movies I've seen in my life.
I think I've been to the cinema about 4 times and the other few were on TV.
The ability to tell a good story is gone from Hollywood.
Preachy Virtual signalling shite.
That turned off the movie going public is what's on offer.
Fuck them.
 

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Preachy Virtual signalling shite.
James Bond's dad was a mean aul Black & Tan who terrorised Irish independence, his uncle used to draw lampoon cartoons for the daily rags of the day!
Fuck off the lousy propagandists who twist cultures for their profit and sick pleasures.
Jewolly wollywood does a crap job on Semites, Russians and most other nationalities as being clunky dums dums
as john mills in the quiet man😳
 

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