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Posted on 07/17/2026 3:08:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Over 30 years later, Dean Cain still believes that Superman's values epitomize the American experience. As the star of the hit ABC series "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," Cain brought the superhero to life for millions of Americans.
But he almost ended up in Hollywood by accident. He originally planned to play professional football and was signed by the Buffalo Bills in 1988, but a devastating knee injury ended his NFL career before the regular season.
Over the past decade, Cain has emerged as an outspoken conservative, and has not shied away from criticizing Hollywood and going against the grain in the entertainment business.
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No one should get a cent until the movie makes money ,LOL
Hollywood’s era is over
All that is required is a complete new generation of writers, actors, directors, and producers. We should pray for plague.
Woke era?
You mean the last 30 years?
“a complete new generation of writers, actors, directors, and producers”
The problem is that they all came out of the exact same corrupt, polluted, anti-American, DEI, union-dominated school system throughout the entire country. Until that changes (and a couple of generations of people emerge from K-12 and universities without corrupted minds), a new generation will be just like the old generation.
They dont have to make money. Especially Disney.
The curse of high intelligence is having to put up with all the stupid people.
Actually, we’ve been looking at woke culture since it started (2020?) and we’ve thought it was stupid.
I asked Grok about when ‘woke’ began, and I got this comprehensive answer:
When, in your opinion, did ‘woke culture’ begin?
“Woke culture,” as commonly understood today, didn’t have a single starting date—it’s an evolution of older ideas with a sharp acceleration in the 2010s.Etymology and early rootsThe word “woke” (as in “stay woke”) originated in African American communities, notably in the 1930s. Blues musician Lead Belly used it in the context of the Scottsboro Boys case, warning Black people to remain vigilant against systemic injustice and police violence. Similar usage appeared in the 1960s–1970s during civil rights struggles. This was a straightforward call for awareness of real discrimination, not the expansive ideology it later became. It stayed mostly niche until the 2000s–2010s.Intellectual foundations (pre-2010)The broader worldview—prioritizing identity categories (race, gender, sexuality), systemic power analysis, and reshaping language/institutions—draws from:Critical theory and postmodernism (Frankfurt School, Foucault, Derrida, later applied via critical legal studies and feminist/queer theory in academia from the 1970s–1990s).
Multiculturalism and political correctness debates of the late 1980s/early 1990s (e.g., campus speech codes, “culture wars”).
Intersectionality (Kimberlé Crenshaw, 1989), which layered oppressions.
These were influential in humanities departments but remained somewhat contained. They emphasized grievance, deconstruction of norms, and equity over equality/color-blindness, contrasting classical liberal approaches.Modern “woke culture” emergence (2010s)In my view, the recognizable phenomenon—mainstream cultural dominance, corporate adoption, institutional capture, social media enforcement, and terms like “cancel culture,” “safe spaces,” and expansive DEI—coalesced around 2013–2017. Key triggers:Black Lives Matter (founded 2013, surged after 2014 Ferguson events). “Woke” went viral here as a badge of awareness of “systemic” issues.
Social media amplification: Twitter (pre-Musk), Tumblr, Facebook algorithms rewarded moral signaling, purity spirals, and rapid outrage. Microaggressions, trigger warnings, and call-out culture scaled.
Campus events: Yale Halloween costume controversy (2015), Evergreen State College (2017), and earlier disinvitations showed intolerance for dissent.
#MeToo (2017) and rapid shifts on gender/sexuality (e.g., rapid mainstreaming of certain transgender policies post-Obergefell 2015).
Corporate/elite buy-in: Brands, universities, governments, and HR departments adopted the framework around the mid-2010s, often as risk management or status signaling.
This wasn’t organic progress on older civil rights goals (which achieved broad consensus by the 1990s–2000s on legal equality). It reframed society as a perpetual power struggle between identity groups, with speech, biology, merit, and humor often subordinated to equity outcomes. Critics like Jonathan Haidt (The Coddling of the American Mind, 2018), James Lindsay/Helen Pluckrose (Cynical Theories), and earlier figures like Thomas Sowell or Christopher Hitchens identified the pattern as illiberal, drawing on Marxist-derived oppressor/oppressed lenses applied to culture rather than class.Why the 2010s inflection point?Pre-2010 versions were academic or activist subcultures. Smartphones + platforms created feedback loops that turned ideas into enforced norms faster than institutions could adapt or debate. Data points: skyrocketing disinvitation/cancellation incidents post-2014 (FIRE database), polling shifts on free speech tolerance among young people, and corporate DEI spending surges. Earlier movements sought inclusion in liberal institutions; this phase often sought to remake them.That said, elements predate this—human tribalism, moral panics, and utopian reformism are ancient. “Woke” is one label for a specific post-liberal strain emphasizing identity essentialism and emotional safety over evidence, trade-offs, or universal principles. It has produced genuine awareness of past wrongs alongside overreach, backlash, and measurable harms (e.g., declining trust in institutions, self-censorship studies). Cultures evolve; this one appears to have peaked in intensity around 2020–2022 and is now facing correction via public pushback, legal challenges, and platform changes.
Its not over yet.
The core morons are already regrouping and planning their future push.
Much depends on what one means by woke.
“Smart strong women, dumb white men” is very well entrenched in Hollywood and the culture in general. Is it just going to go away?
Actually it started in Universities back in the early 90’s.
I had a conservative professor tell me about it.
It had been stupid the whole time!
Interesting. Marion Morrison's shoulder injury* ended his football scholarship at USC, prompting him to go full time in the movie industry.
*(Bodysurfing at The Wedge in Newport Beach, California.)
Yes, John Wayne played tackle. He met Ward Bond on the team. Both got their first taste of Hollywood when the whole were hired to appear in a John Ford movie. All three men were lifelong friends after that, and Bond and Wayne were in several of his movies.
Yes, John Wayne played tackle. He met Ward Bond on the team. Both got their first taste of Hollywood when the whole were hired to appear in a John Ford movie. All three men were lifelong friends after that, and Bond and Wayne were in several of his movies.
Thanks to the homeschooling movement that’s steadily gained momentum since the 80s, I see an army of the homeschooled taking over. The public schooled, under educated, ADHD medicated, incapable of rational thinking, entitled, Tik Toc addicted will barely be able to (if at all) function in any workplace, as we’re already seeing. We can look around and see what’s happened because of DEI hiring practices that put the moronic in leadership positions and nearly destroyed the country. I have a lot of hope for the future.
I think Dean is being wishful. If we want quality movies and TV again the epicenter will have to move away from Hollywood. Hollywood and Disney seem disinterested in making a profit; they really don’t care how much money they lose.
The only way to get them to stop if we boycott Disney.
But their theme parks are still popular today.
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