“See it?!
I’ve never even heard of it!”
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Me neither. I’ve often stumbled upon articles that listed movies that received these awards and found that I do not recognize hardly any of the movies listed.
Years ago, I would recognize many of the movies that received accolades. Films such as the original Star Wars (you have to admit the special effects were amazing for that time) or the “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (great action, fun, good plot), or “Schindler’s List” (very moving and about a time in world history that is being forgotten). However, now all movies that are selected for honors are required to be “woke” even if the plot and acting are horrible.
Movies no longer are a work of art but instead are based solely on activism and pushing a narrative.
The use of entertainment to warp humanity has been happening for as long as it has existed. The difference it that since television began the number of people who could be influenced through entertainment has steadily increased.
Bonanza and Ponderosa were not at all accurate to the time period depicted; they were not intended to be. Instead they displayed social issues like racism by showing viewers what we should aspire to be. Such shows were decried as unrealistic and were replaced with “gritty” (pretend) realism that highlighted human failures and frailty. Shows like Hill Street Blues helped to usher in entertainment that provided plausible reasons to abandon morality, virtue and truth.
Eddie Haskel was a jerk and Wally knew it. But he was a loyal friend regardless, and encouraged him to be better. Today instead of showing what should be, comedy television is an endless stream of “put-downs” and verbal abuse; but it is ok because they are “friends” (who pass each other around like a box of cracker jacks).
Today we have reached a point where the MSM and “entertainment” industries have so desensitized us to evil that our own president and his son can be incredibly demonstrably corrupt and millions of Americans just think “oh well ...” or worse, they are so deluded by being told what and how to think that they don’t believe it.
This is why he is called the father of lies.
Pray for revival. We are in dire need of repentance. Without God we are finished as a nation. It is only a matter of time.