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Give it 20 years, people will think World War Two was fought by women of color with space age technology. Historical fiction is a very loosely respected genre

Give it 20 years, people will think World War Two was fought by women of color with space age technology. Historical fiction is a very loosely respected genre of entertainment. We pick and prod what we want and let fantasy live out in historical dressing. We inundate media with it, and create an ethos to summarize complex ideas into puerile, milquetoast thoughts. Civilizations get washed down, historical figures rewritten, and modern sensibilities injected where appropriate. And we don't really think much about it. Because after all, it's entertainment. Entertainment has no responsibility to inform or educate. But through it all, children will grow up and absorb it. And suddenly a whole generation starts believing that Ancient Greece was a multi-ethnic civilization (by today's standards) and that Spanish Moors were Sub-Saharan Africans.

d0mine 5y ago
Hollywood is the propaganda machine first i.e., a movie may be not especially entertaining but it must conform.
- Retric 5y ago
  There’s plenty of incentives to conform, but no actual requirements. For example the DoD subsidizes war movies it agrees with. When the goal is to make money, that’s hard to turn down.
  - d0mine 5y ago
    The propaganda goes far far beyond explicit DoD subsidies.
thanatos519 5y ago
You mean like this? https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/ https://pbfcomics.com/comics/now-showing/
mhh__ 5y ago
I don't think they will. WW2 media is still dominated by things other than (say) BF:V They will have no sense of the Soviet contribution to the war, because that media will be American.