I haven’t viewed all of the initial part yet but mention of the covid story on Don Johnson’s cruise flick prompted the following ruminations:
I have often wondered what exactly the routine is when these obsessive memes keep being regurgitated. Of course it’s not just covid. There was a time when you couldn’t tune into a TV programme without some transgender subplot. This went through soap operas, kids’ shows, detective shows etc. From “Doctor Who” to “Baby Reindeer” to “Baptiste”, there seemed to be trans characters everywhere and usually played by those who identified as trans in “real life”. Now how did that happen? I will always maintain that the whole trans issue is the most fantastical meme ever to hit the news. As with covid, if no-one in the media had mentioned it, it would never have happened. So how to explain all those shows suddenly awash in the topic?
Without wishing to delve into Ickean speculation on conspiratorial networks, it nevertheless seems inevitable to posit some kind of co-ordinated effort involving nodal points of influence. Of course it helps if there are various supremely rich individuals who would appear to be genuinely steeped in the trans ideology – “Martine” Rothblatt for example.
Such speculation dovetails with the curious monolithic front presented by “Leftist” groups re: covid – the way they all unhesitatingly jumped on the covid meme train and never let up.
And this matter leads into the odd current quiescence of the pandemic narrative – the silence here being particularly notable with reference to those little sites who I’d say were definitely NOT part of some nefarious network. Those sites who were taken in – but who seem to have just carried on without any detailed backward glance at the matter. I’d guess there is a deep seated unease and embarrassment festering there.
All of which leads me to note that since 2020 there has been a speeding up of media nonsense in which there are surges of “shock and awe” followed by sudden cessations where it all just vanishes.
there is always a question of exactly how these mechanisms work vis a vis propaganda. Often , clearly, the writers sense without much difficulty the prevailing tropes to follow. But sometimes its also clearly a memo was handed down. And in much of the trans stuff im sure thats the case. Other *woke* values are just part of Hollywood culture, and you will notice there is ALWAYS one happily domestic gay marriage in every show. EVERY SHOW. On one level this isnt really a problem but at a certain point it begins to impinge on the integrity of the narrative. (im guessing there are not many same sex marriages among detroit homicide cops for example).
Jeffrey Sachs is a propaganda guy. How is it that he, an economist, was on the COVID commission?
How is it that later, he was able to call out the west causing nord stream to be destroyed? And oddly enough even though one pipe didn't get damaged, they shut it all down and said it'll take months to repair. IT'S STILL NOT REPAIRED???
Same with the false dichotomy of covid: lab leak vs zoonotic. Neither. It was normal death counts manipulated and some hospital and nursing home procedures that caused death before the jabs. Either lab leak or zoonotic stories are a distraction.
Re: zombies. If 90% of the population became zombies, and 10% are survivors, how many zombies do the survivors have to kill per month in order to not go extinct? The zombies occasionally infect a survivor, so each battle with zombies involves some diminishment of the group of survivors. Then what birthrate will they need to maintain their numbers into the future so that they don’t go extinct during the endless battles with zombies? Can they even take time to make babies and raise children during this war? Has the science figured out the answers to these questions? People need to know. Anyway, the best zombie movie was Sean of the Dead because it was a comedy and it was humane. In the end, the protagonist takes care of his zombified best friend, who is now cured and non-contagious but permanently brain damaged.
Another great apocalyptic TV series was LOST. The writers put in lots of influences from philosophy and literature, and they were proud that they got a lot of fan mail from people who read the books that appeared in characters hands or that were influences on the story. One obvious influence, conscious or not, was Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. It’s not quite an apocalyptic story, but like that genre, it involves characters who get to experience the struggle to survive outside of their domesticated boring life back home. The irony is that even though they are a bunch of fuckups and fugitives, they all want to get off the island and get back to the hell they were living in.
About Dr. House, I recall that in one episode, he mocked a mother who didn’t want her baby vaccinated. If the show had still been on during the pandemic, what would the writers have put into his dialogue? Would they have turned that wit, cynicism and pessimism toward the pharmaceutical industry and hospital bureaucracies, as they often did on other matters? Would he have used repurposed ivermectin? He often used repurposed drugs, daring maverick that he was. I suspect they would have gone along with the prevailing doctrine, and they would have used the virus as a way to kill off one of the main characters when an actor wanted out of his or her contract.
I haven’t viewed all of the initial part yet but mention of the covid story on Don Johnson’s cruise flick prompted the following ruminations:
I have often wondered what exactly the routine is when these obsessive memes keep being regurgitated. Of course it’s not just covid. There was a time when you couldn’t tune into a TV programme without some transgender subplot. This went through soap operas, kids’ shows, detective shows etc. From “Doctor Who” to “Baby Reindeer” to “Baptiste”, there seemed to be trans characters everywhere and usually played by those who identified as trans in “real life”. Now how did that happen? I will always maintain that the whole trans issue is the most fantastical meme ever to hit the news. As with covid, if no-one in the media had mentioned it, it would never have happened. So how to explain all those shows suddenly awash in the topic?
Without wishing to delve into Ickean speculation on conspiratorial networks, it nevertheless seems inevitable to posit some kind of co-ordinated effort involving nodal points of influence. Of course it helps if there are various supremely rich individuals who would appear to be genuinely steeped in the trans ideology – “Martine” Rothblatt for example.
Such speculation dovetails with the curious monolithic front presented by “Leftist” groups re: covid – the way they all unhesitatingly jumped on the covid meme train and never let up.
And this matter leads into the odd current quiescence of the pandemic narrative – the silence here being particularly notable with reference to those little sites who I’d say were definitely NOT part of some nefarious network. Those sites who were taken in – but who seem to have just carried on without any detailed backward glance at the matter. I’d guess there is a deep seated unease and embarrassment festering there.
All of which leads me to note that since 2020 there has been a speeding up of media nonsense in which there are surges of “shock and awe” followed by sudden cessations where it all just vanishes.
there is always a question of exactly how these mechanisms work vis a vis propaganda. Often , clearly, the writers sense without much difficulty the prevailing tropes to follow. But sometimes its also clearly a memo was handed down. And in much of the trans stuff im sure thats the case. Other *woke* values are just part of Hollywood culture, and you will notice there is ALWAYS one happily domestic gay marriage in every show. EVERY SHOW. On one level this isnt really a problem but at a certain point it begins to impinge on the integrity of the narrative. (im guessing there are not many same sex marriages among detroit homicide cops for example).
Jeffrey Sachs is a propaganda guy. How is it that he, an economist, was on the COVID commission?
How is it that later, he was able to call out the west causing nord stream to be destroyed? And oddly enough even though one pipe didn't get damaged, they shut it all down and said it'll take months to repair. IT'S STILL NOT REPAIRED???
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/21/nordstream-2-seymour-hersh-feeds-the-fake-binary/
Same with the false dichotomy of covid: lab leak vs zoonotic. Neither. It was normal death counts manipulated and some hospital and nursing home procedures that caused death before the jabs. Either lab leak or zoonotic stories are a distraction.
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/there-was-no-pandemic
Re: zombies. If 90% of the population became zombies, and 10% are survivors, how many zombies do the survivors have to kill per month in order to not go extinct? The zombies occasionally infect a survivor, so each battle with zombies involves some diminishment of the group of survivors. Then what birthrate will they need to maintain their numbers into the future so that they don’t go extinct during the endless battles with zombies? Can they even take time to make babies and raise children during this war? Has the science figured out the answers to these questions? People need to know. Anyway, the best zombie movie was Sean of the Dead because it was a comedy and it was humane. In the end, the protagonist takes care of his zombified best friend, who is now cured and non-contagious but permanently brain damaged.
Another great apocalyptic TV series was LOST. The writers put in lots of influences from philosophy and literature, and they were proud that they got a lot of fan mail from people who read the books that appeared in characters hands or that were influences on the story. One obvious influence, conscious or not, was Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis. It’s not quite an apocalyptic story, but like that genre, it involves characters who get to experience the struggle to survive outside of their domesticated boring life back home. The irony is that even though they are a bunch of fuckups and fugitives, they all want to get off the island and get back to the hell they were living in.
About Dr. House, I recall that in one episode, he mocked a mother who didn’t want her baby vaccinated. If the show had still been on during the pandemic, what would the writers have put into his dialogue? Would they have turned that wit, cynicism and pessimism toward the pharmaceutical industry and hospital bureaucracies, as they often did on other matters? Would he have used repurposed ivermectin? He often used repurposed drugs, daring maverick that he was. I suspect they would have gone along with the prevailing doctrine, and they would have used the virus as a way to kill off one of the main characters when an actor wanted out of his or her contract.
footnote. The new season of FBI begins with an anti Iran narrative. Its so blatant now.
Michael Moore did not, and would never, endorse Trump. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/michael-moore-endorsed-donald-trump/