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Hollywood's New Rules

17 points by jseliger 5y ago

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jevoten 5y ago
> We spoke to more than 25 writers, directors, and producers—all of whom identify as liberal A small deviation from the "36% conservative, 35% moderate and 25% liberal" [1] US population, but I'm sure it's just a coincidence. [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/328367/americans-political-ideology-held-steady-2020.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/328367/americans-political-ideo...
throwawaysea 5y ago
All of this feels so dystopian and dark. What happened to enlightenment values? The marketplace of ideas? The institutionalization of ideological purity tests (like RAISE in the article) is a scary abuse of power and a step towards absolute political tribalism. It feels a lot like a repeat of the long March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institu...
betwixthewires 5y ago
Hollywood is such a strange industry. You've got a small economy about presentation such that even discussing the internals of the economy must be presented carefully. This makes it very resilient, the tools needed to maintain it are already in built by default, it's staffed by actors and story crafter's after all. But this makes it fragile, because since the industry internals must be presented, the industry can be easily transformed with PR, and someone found a way to hack it. Does this all end in a class action suit? Maybe. But what it actually ends in is a dead entertainment industry. There's only so many meaningless platitudes people are willing to pay for, there's only so many no-nos until people feel like it's too sterile to be culturally dominant. It might feel like it's booming now, but the industry is in a no win situation where the reputation of it declines one way or another, and in the process the content itself, what people actually pay for, becomes less compelling.

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Hollywood's New Rules

17 points by jseliger 5y ago

deleted 5y ago
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jevoten 5y ago
> We spoke to more than 25 writers, directors, and producers—all of whom identify as liberal A small deviation from the "36% conservative, 35% moderate and 25% liberal" [1] US population, but I'm sure it's just a coincidence. [1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/328367/americans-political-ideology-held-steady-2020.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/328367/americans-political-ideo...
throwawaysea 5y ago
All of this feels so dystopian and dark. What happened to enlightenment values? The marketplace of ideas? The institutionalization of ideological purity tests (like RAISE in the article) is a scary abuse of power and a step towards absolute political tribalism. It feels a lot like a repeat of the long March: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institutions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_march_through_the_institu...
betwixthewires 5y ago
Hollywood is such a strange industry. You've got a small economy about presentation such that even discussing the internals of the economy must be presented carefully. This makes it very resilient, the tools needed to maintain it are already in built by default, it's staffed by actors and story crafter's after all. But this makes it fragile, because since the industry internals must be presented, the industry can be easily transformed with PR, and someone found a way to hack it. Does this all end in a class action suit? Maybe. But what it actually ends in is a dead entertainment industry. There's only so many meaningless platitudes people are willing to pay for, there's only so many no-nos until people feel like it's too sterile to be culturally dominant. It might feel like it's booming now, but the industry is in a no win situation where the reputation of it declines one way or another, and in the process the content itself, what people actually pay for, becomes less compelling.