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It's fear, that's part of it, and they know how to rattle them by say talking about Social Security payments getting cut. But they also instigate powerless ang

It's fear, that's part of it, and they know how to rattle them by say talking about Social Security payments getting cut. But they also instigate powerless anger, and a good bit of hatred, too. With the anger, it's about framing it as an inescapable injustice, rather than something you could make a dent in by eg going to jury duty, voting every single time (even blank) because it's so easy, even making a financial contribution to a politician you think very highly of (and with the campaigns I contributed to, pocket change basically, but I'm really happy I did, those politicians truly came through for the common good over their whole career since the contribution). But CNN doesn't want to talk about actions you can take to fix problems they tell you you have, because if you do you will be carrying out actions and doing verbs instead of watching television. It's basically an attention thing, advertising only works if people are paying attention, and different shows get it in different ways. Comedians get attention by telling jokes. Action movies get attention by (generalizing) showing a single hero or heroine take down a conspiracy of over 50 people. I'd estimate 90% of action movies involve a struggle against a conspiracy. The exception that proves the rule is No Country for Old Men, because the bad guy was a lone wolf, but I can't think of any others. In fiction it allows for plots where it makes sense for a single star to be in fight scenes against "henchmen", which is of course a conspirator, especially in fights where he's outnumbered. This gives more drama and sense of risk, over and over again. And I sense that people really find the struggle against conspiracies gratifying to watch, there's some really profound identification there. And news channels get attention by rankling you. And it also involves conspiracies, without actually using that word because it's super taboo. When Biden went into office the news channels had problems coming up with enough "content" because they could no longer put negative coverage, and fake news, and lies, and occasionally some little nuggets of truth too, about Donald Trump around the clock. He was keeping them in business, very good for their bottom line. There's an element of hatred here, too, they absolutely desire that. They want you to refuse to cooperate, and always oppose, the bad guys of the movie that is CNN, which is really the basic biological function of hatred. The bigger picture is, what is CNN selling? Well, they barely have any formal ads. I believe their ads in Chile are for that Emirates airline, and occasionally they have a "technology" feature which is pitching some electronics. So what are they selling? I think the viewer's votes. They have ways of measuring how many brain stems they have hooked up to their Matrix, they can give credible estimates of how much they can swing an election. Eyeballing it, I'd say CNN can swing a presidential election by .1%, which is a huge amount.

koprulusector 5y ago
Just rattling off the action movies I can immediately think of, I don’t believe any of which include a conspiracy in their plot/synopsis. The only action movie I can think of about a conspiracy is the movie Conspiracy with Mel Gibson, got any others? - The Last Action Hero - Robocop - Karate Kid - Baby Driver - Rocky - The Revenant - Mad Max - ConAir - Terminator
- daniel-cussen 5y ago
  Terminator is an easy one. The terminator at the beginning has done nothing wrong, and fights a gang[1] of bikers who antagonize him and gang up on him, and fight him together, for being naked after traveling through time. Karate Kid had the Cobra Cai, I think it was called, the rival school. I didn't see it, but I believe they were bullies. Maybe you're right about that one, although I think Daniel-san triumphs against a bully, there might have been several, or the bully had little supporters. It's a coming of age movie, though. It's also a sports movie, they do Karate-Do, which is for decorative, spirital, and sport purposes, not Karate-Jutsu, the military or let's call it "action". Robocop, there's that company that makes the robot that Robocop has to fight in the end, there's a lot of people working in that company and together they built an automatic murder machine, which they then set loose. And IIRC they're doing a housing development and have ties to the criminal activity in the city Robocop tries to clean up. And like that evil robot had missiles coming out of its back I think, the special effects were glitchy, which made it look like an even greater monstrosity. Companies are groups of persons so absolutely can be guilty of conspiracy if the facts warrant it, incorporation documents don't give permission to traffic heroin. So it happens to fronts for drug dealing and it almost happened to Abbott Laboratories, also basically for drug dealing, only with a drug patients hated instead of craving. Rocky does not involve a conspiracy, except of course the conspiracy that Rocky works for, the mob, as a debt collector. Which is the reason behind his conflict with Mickey, while Rocky says "it's a living" Mickey replies "it's a waste of life!" But I think I can hand you this one. One catch: this is a sports movie, not an action movie. I haven't seen the others. [1] gang is a well-marketed and very glamourous word for conspiracy, which is the term courts use when there's the formal elements of a conspiracy: meeting of the minds, two or more participants in a crime acting in coordination, there's a third one [EDIT: secrecy, and illegality or bad faith are others] but that's the gist of it, it just means criminal teamwork. Some things you do alone, some things with others, same goes for crime...at any rate, don't accuse someone of being a conspiracy theorist to a judge. Judges deal with conspiracies continually, sometimes multiple different ones per day, and there absolutely are people trying to play that judge by "covering" for each other. You will curry zero favor with that judge by putting the word "conspiracy" in your opponents mouth and then claim he must be delusional. That always works on talk TV, but not in court. Judges simply don't have the luxury of being able to pretend criminals never cooperate, like none of them had a single friend.

koprulusector 5y ago

Just rattling off the action movies I can immediately think of, I don’t believe any of which include a conspiracy in their plot/synopsis. The only action movie I can think of about a conspiracy is the movie Conspiracy with Mel Gibson, got any others? - The Last Action Hero - Robocop - Karate Kid - Baby Driver - Rocky - The Revenant - Mad Max - ConAir - Terminator

daniel-cussen 5y ago
Terminator is an easy one. The terminator at the beginning has done nothing wrong, and fights a gang[1] of bikers who antagonize him and gang up on him, and fight him together, for being naked after traveling through time. Karate Kid had the Cobra Cai, I think it was called, the rival school. I didn't see it, but I believe they were bullies. Maybe you're right about that one, although I think Daniel-san triumphs against a bully, there might have been several, or the bully had little supporters. It's a coming of age movie, though. It's also a sports movie, they do Karate-Do, which is for decorative, spirital, and sport purposes, not Karate-Jutsu, the military or let's call it "action". Robocop, there's that company that makes the robot that Robocop has to fight in the end, there's a lot of people working in that company and together they built an automatic murder machine, which they then set loose. And IIRC they're doing a housing development and have ties to the criminal activity in the city Robocop tries to clean up. And like that evil robot had missiles coming out of its back I think, the special effects were glitchy, which made it look like an even greater monstrosity. Companies are groups of persons so absolutely can be guilty of conspiracy if the facts warrant it, incorporation documents don't give permission to traffic heroin. So it happens to fronts for drug dealing and it almost happened to Abbott Laboratories, also basically for drug dealing, only with a drug patients hated instead of craving. Rocky does not involve a conspiracy, except of course the conspiracy that Rocky works for, the mob, as a debt collector. Which is the reason behind his conflict with Mickey, while Rocky says "it's a living" Mickey replies "it's a waste of life!" But I think I can hand you this one. One catch: this is a sports movie, not an action movie. I haven't seen the others. [1] gang is a well-marketed and very glamourous word for conspiracy, which is the term courts use when there's the formal elements of a conspiracy: meeting of the minds, two or more participants in a crime acting in coordination, there's a third one [EDIT: secrecy, and illegality or bad faith are others] but that's the gist of it, it just means criminal teamwork. Some things you do alone, some things with others, same goes for crime...at any rate, don't accuse someone of being a conspiracy theorist to a judge. Judges deal with conspiracies continually, sometimes multiple different ones per day, and there absolutely are people trying to play that judge by "covering" for each other. You will curry zero favor with that judge by putting the word "conspiracy" in your opponents mouth and then claim he must be delusional. That always works on talk TV, but not in court. Judges simply don't have the luxury of being able to pretend criminals never cooperate, like none of them had a single friend.