Late Stage Capitalism

This is real https://www.tiktok.com/@asimo_boutique/video/7461292559181139208

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26147370

I just want to have a discussion about this. All of the remakes and reboots hollywood has done throughout its history have always been a way of just making money by putting all the money on "sure" bets, things that producers already know people like because they were successful before, but there's something exceptionally soulless about the Disney reboots.

There seems to be no true desire to introduce a new generation to stories they weren't familiar with, but instead a desire to just rewrite disneys entire catalog to be presented in a new aesthetic. It's a homogenization of film to a single set of techniques and looks. Capitalism is directly strangling creativity and it's being successful enough that it's seemingly never going to stop. I mean. They're rebooting movies that aren't even 20 years old yet at this point. There are people in college seeing promos for reboots of movies their parents took them to as kids.

It's creating this environment where we're all stuck in this moment that already passed. The media we consume now was written in response to events that happened already, have passed us by, and can no longer be addressed. Any attempts to make new media that meet our current moment are stifled by studios who just... Don't care.

https://peopleoverprofitnyc.org/

A Jaunty little ditty I thought this place would enjoy...

I was called a conspiracy theorist for calling out that the owners of nature.com are part of the WEF and have predefined goals, not merely interest in science. So I looked up the most accurate information I could find on the WEF.

This article is from the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and it gets grants mainly from the Dutch and other European governments. It is from 2016, but still very relevant. It is obvious to me that any member or partner of the WEF shares the same goals.

"It’s an all-too-easy event to mock. It’s hard to keep a straight face when the world’s rich arrive annually in their private jets to the luxury ski-resort of Davos to express their deep concern about growing poverty, inequality and climate change. "

"The founder of WEF Klaus Schwab says “the sovereign state has become obsolete (external link) ”. WEF has created 40 Global Agenda Councils (external link) and industry-sector bodies, with the belief these are the best groups of people to develop proposals and ultimately decisions related to a whole gamut of global issues from climate change to cybersecurity."

"University of Massachusetts professor Harris Gleckman, who has closely studied GRI (external link) , says that one of its central tenets is that opt-in, voluntaristic approaches are the best way for tackling social and environmental issues. So codes of conduct become the norm, and international binding standards and regulations are rejected (except of course when it concerns facilitating trade in commerce and finance in which case legally enforceable protections for corporations are very welcome). In other words, corporations are free to pick and choose what they act on and not bound by any enforceable legislation that could control their social and environmental impact."