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So, you've finally come to the realization that you, and most of the people around you are marinating in media programming and the shenanigans of the Department of Education. In this next instalment of "The Working Class Is Brainwashed And You're One Of Us", we'll discuss how our society didn't name generations until the advent of cinema.
The reason generations weren't categorized before the turn of the 20th century, is because American children didn't share an identity as a generation. Their habits, thoughts and values were formed from within the traditions (and fads) handed to them by family, nationality, culture and locality.
It wasn't until the first generation to have a cinema/media experience came along, that a generation arrived with a completely separate set of core beliefs and concerns that could be identified and attributed to them as a group.
Strangely enough, the overriding concerns of the first named generation, the "Lost Generation", matched those of the images that had been displayed to them starting in the 1890s: phantasmagoria and the politics of artists. This, by the tinkering bourgeois that developed early cinema.
Don't think this went unnoticed by big money, either. Because the following generation's reaction to their media experience was much more focused, and in hindsight, much more deadly to the working class.
The Lost Generation marked the earliest emergence of what would become Youth Culture, a juggernaut of inexperience and fertile minds for the rich to groom and mould to their ends. Kids, lured away from their parents by cartoons and other childrens' programming, then convinced that they are mature for their age and capable of making their own decisions. Nothing creepy going on here, folks.
You see, soon these programmed kids were going to want to get out of Kansas and leave the farm behind for developers to swoop in on. The Silent Generation silently abandoned their rural and traditional roots for the bright lights of the city and its Pleasure Island appeal. This, just to become the donkey slaves and anonymous fodder of wealthy investors and factory owners. Or their morally bankrupt accomplices.
And we all know how the Baby Boomers handed their children's minds over to the system for indoctrination. Just for a chance to dilute the workforce and turn the real estate market into a banker's wet dream. Lots of bitter women and sex addicts emerged from the hippy movement, to fall squarely into the arms of TV shows about divorced women making it in the world with their daughters, while more violence and respect for authority was dished out to the little boys through cop shows and action movies. Good stuff. Well planned.
GenX were the kids to finally put Boomer depravity over the top. We were the generation that made 666 and satanism a big funny. We were the easily-groomed, demonic little sex puppets who used ugly words to say things were cool: twisted, badass, sick, gnarly..etc.
Audiences full of long haired teenagers of both sexes, "banging our heads", while from the stage, unbeknownst to us, it looked like mass fellatio being ritually performed on a rock god. Movies about the most depraved and violent acts of human against human filled the theaters. Friday the 13th, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc. etc.
Remember those satanic pedophile cult scares in the mid to late 80s? Remember how they convinced everyone that the kids' testimonies had been coerced by investigators..or that entire towns had experienced mass hysteria episodes?
No, that was rich, impatient groomers checking to see if the working class was ready to be turned into blackmailed sex ring muppets yet, so they could start normalizing depravity throughout society to feed all of their "Summer of Love" sex addict accomplices. you know, like Epstein, Cosby, Weinstein, Allen, etc. etc. etc.
Our Boomer parents were just so programmed to believe what authorities told them, that they didn't bat an eye when they were told it wasn't true. (But they sure did freak out about D&D!) Then they went on destroying their families and preparing to leave nothing to their children.
Meanwhile, on the more conservative side, GenX had Robin Leach (the last name's a nice touch) with "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous", to pump up gratuitous, elitism, materialism and consumerism in hold out conservative communities, still sitting on the farm. Dallas, Dynasty, etc. 1990s here we come.
And since that's our generation..I'll end it there for now. But the momentum is the same. Wake up kids, we're all running on mass-confusion-march autopilot.
Love,
daf
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phil
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Before 1901, there was no youth culture? No inexperienced and exploitable youths to groom? This would be laughable if the ignorance wasn't so infuriatingly degrading and dismissive.
I can't bash it enough.
Slavery, arranged marriage, jus primae noctis, and other schemes obviously exploited and hurt the youth, without the need for film or Oprah Whinfrey.
Cultures have always produced mythologies and other unifying beliefs to normalize anything, from recipes to ritual sacrifice. Video is simply a strong format, irregardless of the purpose.
It is similar to views on global warming. Denial began with a conclusion and then formed an incoherent scheme of imaginary events to sanctify it, ignoring the issue and any possible remedy in exchange for feeling knowledgable and important.
To further tear down this wall of yarn and push-pins, generations were recognized and named long before the advent of film and radio.
Many cultures besides anglo-americans, have traditionally given names to each generation.
Similar to the zodiac signs, people prescribe importance to the year people were born into.
Generations are demarcated by war, famine, peace, fortune, etcetera, with a description of each generation reflecting its reaction to the event that influenced it.
While film and radio were impactful enough to epitomize generations, they are not the reason for the naming of generations.
Media impacts us with imagined experiences and gives us tailored expectations, such as we see on the screen, but nothing you said is an accurate description of why things happened or how events were organized.
Perceptions of the Vietnam war, for instance, were impacted by American media, but not in a way that reflects anyone's finger was on the control. It just happened.
Shows are produced primarily to gain viewership. That is how the money is made. Regardless of what any group of rich people would like, we aren't forced to consume it and subliminal messages just don't work.
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