Posted on 07/14/2019 7:28:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Like more or less everyone I know, I have no desire to see a single entertainment company take over the future, dominating what had been a movie industry of multiple entities, each one fighting for their slice of your attention span. Disney, the movie studio so powerful that it ate another movie studio, looks, to many, like it could be that company. The full impact of its absorption of 20th Century Fox has yet to be felt, but now that the smoke has cleared, the mega-corporation that was formed stands before us like an unprecedented colossus, looming over all other studios, maybe over the entertainment business itself.
Yet lets be clear: Its not just, or maybe even primarily, the size of the company that is giving people the shakes. Its the fact that a single film corporation now seems to own everything worth having at least, in stark capitalistic blockbuster terms. Disney owns Marvel, it owns Star Wars, it owns Avatar, it owns the fabled animated features that it has been using to mint live-action-remake megahits as if it were printing money. Whats still on the table Godzilla? The shards of Harry Potter? [snip]
Viewed according to the logic of 21st-century fantasy culture, Disney doesnt just suddenly own all the properties. It owns all the mythologies. Long ago, Hollywood was called the Dream Factory. The intimidation factor of the new bulked-up, bursting-with-franchise-moxie Disney is the suspicion that a single company has become the Dream Factory. And the anxiety this has provoked is about something beyond market share. What a lot of people are wondering is: Will Disney now have the power to control our dreams?
(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...
If it weren’t for the many real actions taken by the NRA before and during the Trump campaign, the 2016 election might have gone to Hillary. Many Democrats have complained that the President Trump received $30 million from the NRA to work with. More recently, Democrats and other anti-Second-Amendment people have been using the Tokyo Rose propaganda approach in conservative discussion venues.
The NRA Has Been Outstandingly Successful Where It Really Counts
April, 2013
https://www.businessinsider.com/state-laws-nra-right-to-carry-gun-control-2013-4
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https://www.nraila.org/legal-legislation/
Wrong thread here. ...corrected.
Disney is preverted.
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