Re: Wrinkle in Time
"Because they aim for a higher purpose"? Or, well... they say they do. Does anybody honestly believe that? They are as corporate as any other corporation. Investors and bottom lines, chasing trends, taking managed risks. Of course, I can't know that either. I'm not in their board rooms. Maybe they are the most altruistic bunch of do gooders the world has ever known. Don Diegos in their palatial mansions who come out as Zorro to save the masses from themselves. Insert -eye roll- here. What? They could be.
And...
"People are more motivated to see movies when they see people who look like them on screen"? Wow. Just... wow. I'm almost at a loss on how to even approach that. So does that mean I shouldn't have liked Black Panther? Or maybe it was because I identified with the Martin Freeman character. Yeah. That must be it. Because social dictums forbid me to see past the fact that T'Challa reprsents loyalty to family and country, espouses heroism and mercy. No. God no. I just need to know he's a ...(whisper) Black man.
If this is what the future holds to actually get to a balanced society of equality and justice - all of us hammering people with statistics that don't mean squat or throwing out dubious rationale for what people believe to be equality and justice - then I posit that we are all doomed.
"Because they aim for a higher purpose"? Or, well... they say they do. Does anybody honestly believe that? They are as corporate as any other corporation. Investors and bottom lines, chasing trends, taking managed risks. Of course, I can't know that either. I'm not in their board rooms. Maybe they are the most altruistic bunch of do gooders the world has ever known. Don Diegos in their palatial mansions who come out as Zorro to save the masses from themselves. Insert -eye roll- here. What? They could be.
And...
"People are more motivated to see movies when they see people who look like them on screen"? Wow. Just... wow. I'm almost at a loss on how to even approach that. So does that mean I shouldn't have liked Black Panther? Or maybe it was because I identified with the Martin Freeman character. Yeah. That must be it. Because social dictums forbid me to see past the fact that T'Challa reprsents loyalty to family and country, espouses heroism and mercy. No. God no. I just need to know he's a ...(whisper) Black man.
If this is what the future holds to actually get to a balanced society of equality and justice - all of us hammering people with statistics that don't mean squat or throwing out dubious rationale for what people believe to be equality and justice - then I posit that we are all doomed.
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