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Woody Allen is doing a very limited publicity tour for his latest movie, which can’t get any actual distribution because the filmmaker had been canceled a while back, and was asked about the obvious.
“Someone asked me about cancel culture, and I said, ‘If you’re going to be canceled, this is the culture that you want to be canceled from.’ Because who wants to be part of this culture?” he asks, rhetorically, surrounded by emblems (remnants?) of a previous culture: the works of great authors on the bookshelves; DVDs (The Godfather, Reds, Annie Hall—three with Diane Keaton) on the coffee table.
I’m not a fan of either the man or his movies, but it’s still a striking statement coming from a man who used to be at the center of culture, dismissing the current culture as worthless.
And it’s hard to argue with him.
What is culture now? Comic book movies (woke), beach reads (also woke), soap operas pretending to be dramas (woke) and all of it feeling oddly the same like it’s all been run through the same filter. And none of it even matters because 96% of what the younger generations consume is social media.
Woody does have a point. Aside from the economics of it, what is there to be canceled from and who wants to be a part of this culture?
American culture once seduced the world. Now American culture means a recognizable IP and some special effects. Technique, narrative, and even acting are becoming lost arts like certain obscure forms of ancient pottery or the secrets of building the pyramids.
When Chaplin was prevented from returning to America, one could argue that something of value was lost (then again considering that he went on to do Limelight and A King in New York, it seemingly wasn’t), but what of value is being lost now?
I certainly don’t mourn Woody Allen getting canceled even though the charges are obviously spurious. Back when Allen was getting distributed it was through Amazon Video looking to borrow his prestige and the movies were terrible. Canceling Harvey Weinstein means we’ll miss out on more European Oscar bait, losing Kevin Spacey means he’ll play fewer villains speaking in the same menacing monotone, and losing Joss Whedon means the comic book characters will have to speak in less soulless quips.
And that’s the people from previous generations who were canceled.
The entertainment products of the last generation could vanish from the earth and very little of any value will have been lost because, among other things, there’s barely even a discernible culture here.
Wokeness is the only discernible characteristic in a culture that otherwise is a frantic remix of the past with the attitudes of the present in which everything becomes one giant mass and whose only purpose is to gain social media traction or perish.
We live in a world where Taylor Swift, who’s too bland and boring to play herself in the event that anyone ever filmed her life story, is the biggest musical act in the country.
What more needs to be said?
Country music has become so indistinguishable from pop which has become so equivalent to R&B that the big news is that Beyonce can adopt a country persona and no one can tell the difference.
As AI voices replace autotune, the idea of a performer as anything except a technological construct is passe.
Hollywood studios are folding or preparing to fold and merge what’s left ahead of the incursion of AI generated video. Their only business strategy lies in hoarding their IPs so they can go on making Avengers or Star Wars movies until the copyright runs out.
Who wants to be part of this culture? Beyond wokeness, there’s no culture to even be a part of.
This is a good point. It is not like they have a new culture to offer. They have nothing.
It is not enough that they are already dead. They have to make everything else dead.
Culture? What culture,
When a person is dead he won’t know he is dead and only others will feel the pain. Kinda like
being stupid.
Oh, we have a popular culture, alright. And it’s in the toilet.
And it stinks.
Or is yellow.
Hey DG,
You’re still as funny as ever without really intending to be.. Hang in there!
TP
You’re still as stupid as ever, but it’s nice to see you’re still kicking, TP.
TP? More like used TP.
It’s nice to receive such a warm welcome from so many old friends who still seem able only see one side of any argument. The great thing about DG is that he can see both sides, if not many sides, to all arguments. He may have strong opinions about some things, which most of you seem wholeheartedly if not fanatically in agreement with, but I have yet to detect any ill will in him toward anyone. Instead, he seems to adopt an attitude of profound and shocked disbelief that anyone could possibly disagree with him about anything, and I find that to be absolutely hilarious. He’s a comic genius, and he doesn’t know it!
All the best to you all.
TP
EDIT: only to see
EDIT: only to see
Fake culture based on experiences of people living in a fake culture.
And these are the morons helping Hamas, who would love to kill them all.
I’ve seen entertainment advertised as “woke,” as though that were an enticement to pay for it rather than avoid it. Self indulgent twats.
And Hollywood and comic books keep pushing trannies on the public but I notice they never get their own movies, streaming series or comics, they’re just characters in other ones because nobody will pay for that “woke” crap.
Fake culture is right. And I thought worship of a Ford car or a painting of a can of soup sucked.
lol, that’s a good one. I remember those soup cans 🙂
Yes, “woke” Democ-rats are fake Nazis: Goose-stepping to be goose-stepping.
I keep praying to God for a massive earthquake that destroys Hollywood and separates California from the
US mainland by about 5000 miles.
I live in CA and if it became an island it would be like that dumb “Escape from LA” movie.
Not all of us are left-wing dumb shits, you know. It’s our government that’s really bad. Greenfield and Algorithmic Analyst both live in CA, too.
This isn’t a culture, its a cult and it stems from Marxism, and radical Islamic culture…. when the foundations of every institutions are destroyed. They pray on the weak who can be subverted to a depraved way of thinking and manipulated by violence.
The greater catastrophe that is happening to this earth is a lack of knowledge about where this kind of culture is going.
People need to understand that this will not go on forever, there a window of opportunity to change, but the signs of a world passing away are upon us, and those who are rulling with depraved minds.
2 Peter 2:4. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment, if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them with extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.
Those generations and civilizations never expected what happened to their world either, and when the judgment came it was too late for them. They were totally taken by surprise and living in their own world of delusion.
Hello RS. We are indeed approaching the moment when our Creator, the God of Abraham, will, as he has promised “bring to ruin those ruining the earth”. How else are “the meek” – those meek towards their Creator, those who will listen to him and obey him – going to inherit the earth and live forever upon it?
I cancelled myself out of the current ‘alleged’ culture when I saw the rise of social media ….
When everyone is busy trying to get their 15 minutes, we end up smothered in Bull S**T unending,
I am now back to listening to whatever radio station I can find a decent talk show on and I’m back to ‘gasp’ reading books.
I have few friends and acquaintances since I refused to be a vaccine victim. I am beginning to feel comfortable as a semi recluse.
A friend of mine’s mother in a so called care center got the vaccine and was dead 7 days later. The “vaccine” shot was mandatory at the upscale care facility she was staying in..
My friend was very angry and bitter about that.
The best culture today is the home grown variety: : staying home, gardening, reading from your own bookshelves, listening to your favorite CD’s, home cooking. Yeah, it’s pretty circumscribed, but it beats the rot that’s out there.
You should try hiking. The woketards haven’t ruined that and probably never will.
It would be far better to home educate your child rather then sending them to one of those Indoctrination centers we used to call Schools
The left has been pushing the lowest common denominator and they have achieved it. The only thing at which they excel is a lust for power. They don’t care if it’s tyranny. Tyranny gives them more control, hence more power.
Allen’s statement sounds like a variation of the Groucho Mark quote, “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” When if comes to wokie culture, I concur. No self-respecting individual with any integrity would ever abide, much less be a part of a culture based on absurd and arbijtrary dictates.
Well … I guess the welfare check showed proof of life for the geezer.
God forbid they actually learn any science or engineering
To them, science and engineering are global climate warming change and “gender” reassignment surgery.
The turning point in our culture, all started when women started wearing yoga pants then I knew the collapse was coming
Collapse? On the right chicks, those pants have the opposite effect on me.
I see it as when thug rap (prison boasts of sex, crime, and violence) became “normal entertainment.” The rise of porn culture didn’t help, either– they worked together.
I”m LOL’ing at your comment. Thank you.