by peartreed » Mon Apr 30, 2012 2:44 am
Hollywood is as corrupt and compromised as everywhere else involving high powered persuasion of the masses.
Having worked with the cast, crew and production staff of, “The X-Files” and its offshoot, “The Lone Gunmen”, including sessions with writers and producers, I can attest to the fact that script research often involved delving into current and old ufology, paranormal and conspiracy theory premises in order to add “verisimilitude” to the stories and dialogue – all towards the goal of the shows’ audience suspending disbelief. It was recognized, especially in the early going, that the prime target audience demographic and psychographic profiles already had some exposure to, and interest in, the increasing popularity of such subject matter.
The film industry simply mirrors the trends in popular culture, often distorting it in the process, sometimes expanding it.
Hollywood producers (AMPTP in the U.S. and CFTPA then in Canada) were and are interconnected at the highest executive level in a highly competitive but often surprisingly cooperative cabal united in their control of industry rates, policies and the obvious production, programming and distribution of film industry product. The collaboration on content was and is more a result of what is working and sells, especially in generating audience market share and advertising/box office income.
Like all corporations, especially including global multimedia conglomerates, the film industry relies on government political, economic and legislative support to exist and prosper. It has learned to not only not bite the hand that feeds it, but to throw the odd bonus bone to the agencies and agents with a social or propaganda agenda – placing political messages, themes and constructs much like commercial product placement in films. How overt or covert, subtle or subliminal becomes merely a technical issue rather than a moral one.
My point is that the film industry is just as corrupted by ulterior motives and agendae as the rest of the world of commerce, or compromised humanity is. The difference is in the impactful delivery of compelling tales to credulous crowds who, in turn, like our tribal ancestors going back millennia, love a good story. The art of manipulative exploitation is a tradition that government, religion, commerce and the military all have mastered because we, as the manipulated, still find it very entertaining and perversely enjoyable in an otherwise dull and boring ennui-filled routine existence.
Mind control represents the extreme of such manipulative exploitation "success" in the most direct and intrusive way, would-be master to would-be slave. As that covert corruption, such as MK Ultra, ultimately rose from the depths of depravity of concentration camp experimentation into the public press, Hollywood noted the sensational tabloid potential of the subject matter and its ability to pique and press the perverted buttons of the prurient public interest - ergo counterculture entertainment.
The only difference between that and porn, if any, is the compliance with the various codes controlling programming content.
It illustrates that all of us will try to get away with as much as we can to the extent that the rest of us continue to allow it, or consider it entertaining enough to watch.
peartreed
