While it may be considered hyperbolic to say, I truly believe a huge factor in the growth of our cultural rot lies in the woke infection of the entertainment industry.
I've been sounding the alarm for years about the left's playbook of taking everything you love and repurposing it so that it's a message carrier for their cause. Like the Alien face-hugger, the social justice-obsessed latch on to any given work, implant their ideas inside it, then release it only to have these woke ideas explode out at you out of the blue and leave the work ruined and destroyed behind it.
The examples are myriad.
Disney, Marvel, "Star Wars," "The Wheel of Time," "Cowboy Beebop," DC, "He-Man," "Terminator," "Ghostbusters," "Charlie's Angels," and even "Men in Black" didn't escape the socio-political conquest of the left.
Possibly the most egregious of them all, however, was the attempt to pervert and repurpose Tolkien. My constant articles about the ongoing attack on the author of "The Lord of the Rings" even got the attention of CNN, but it was something that I and many others in the critic community couldn't just stop talking about. This wasn't just an attack on Tolkien; it was an attack on the very fabric of our society.
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Again, that might sound hyperbolic, but the people who go after these great works to commandeer and corrupt them are very open about what they're trying to do.
As I wrote on Monday, localizers (the people who translate Japanese anime and manga to English) who adhere to social justice and woke culture openly said that they were "fixing" some of the problems that the original Japanese creators put in their work, and by "fixing" what they mean is that they're changing lines or altering the text to make it more palatable to a "modern audience."
The "modern audience," mind you, is a giant lie created by leftists to justify injecting their politics into any given work.
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This was the same mentality people had when they were busy corrupting Tolkien's work as well. They claimed that Tolkien had too many problems in his writing, including the fact that it wasn't diverse and that it was sexist because there weren't enough strong women characters. Any true Tolkien fan would laugh this idea out of Lothlórien.
But they believed that they could "fix" Tolkien, and herein lies the real core of the belief in social justice and woke culture.
As the Critical Drinker likes to say, "Sheer f***ing hubris."
I sum it up in my video here.
Such is the nature of proponents of social justice and woke culture that they believe themselves to be above and beyond everyone else. They see themselves as elevated. They've progressed beyond society, and they feel it's their duty to lead you to their belief system by tricking you through normalization.
They believe in their soul that infecting the works of better men and women who came before them isn't just a good thing, but that they're doing you a favor while they do it. Look at the reaction of the localizers who learned they'll soon be replaced by AI because they couldn't stop corrupting the work of Japanese creators. They truly think they are doing the people a solid by perverting things.
At what point do we start wondering where the mere belief in a political ideology ends, and the social contagion that results in delusions and mania begins?
This behavior isn't normal. You don't even have to look at the deep-seated self-importance and extreme narcissism. Look at the way many of these people corrupt their own bodies. Bright and unnatural hair, excessive piercings, oftentimes overweight, bizarre clothing choices, and more.
There is something about the adherence and belief in social justice that causes a very real mania. Not only do these people abuse themselves, they abuse others and believe they're righteous in the abuse.
They say that pride is the most dangerous of all the sins, and perhaps these people are proof positive of this. These high thoughts about themselves have driven them to lunacy, and because of their hubris, they can't crawl out of it.
