Escapism is important in our society, and in this day and age, it’s never been more necessary. The internet has made it easy to find news reports and talk heads that will tell you all you need to know. It’s a direct turnaround from a time when getting the news outside the borders of your town took a small bit of effort. You spent every moment keeping your thoughts where you were.
It’s not anymore. The news is everywhere and it’s all the time. It’s enough to drive people crazy, and judging by the increased attention to mental health and the willingness of mainstream culture to embrace the insane, it absolutely is driving people nuts. Moreover, it’s so laced with political narrative driving that is so left-leaning that it falls over into lunacy.
People turning to movies, video games, and other forms of art isn’t surprising, but neither should be the left’s insistence that its messaging follow you into these forms of escapism. This is what they want you to do. These messages are often pushed by marketers. When was the last commercial in which the man got one-up on the woman? How many movies force the idea that the world is going to end tomorrow, or is in great danger because mankind wasn’t paying attention to climate change?
These issues are often very beneficial to the Democrat party and they expect you to support them wholeheartedly. They figure that if you can’t escape it, it will become a part of your everyday mental makeup. You’ll just accept that these things are true without much thought. You’ll just accept these things without much thought.
Naturally, the left is looking to expand and if there’s one thing that has served the left incredibly well, it’s been the COVID-19 pandemic. It helped them boot out their most hated enemy since civil rights for black citizens, it’s made American citizens willingly submit to control, and it’s turned those who don’t submit into “others” that has people who listen to the narrative blindly at war with whoever Democrats point at.
Case in point, MSNBC and New York Times writer, James Poniewozik, is angry at the fact that the mainstream arts aren’t focusing more on pandemic related storylines according to Fox News:
The pandemic has been included in scripts on some of the biggest shows, but not all of them have. Why, for instance, aren’t Carrie Bradshaw and company wearing masks while dining in crowded restaurants in the “Sex and the City” reboot “Just Like That,” the New York Times’s James Poniewozik asked in a recent piece.
“And just like that … Covid is over. At least it is in this show’s Manhattan, as well as in a cohort of other series that try, wishfully, to press the epidemiological fast-forward button,” Poniewozik wrote in his Friday piece.
He referenced several other shows that he suggested “wished” away the pandemic, such as “This Is Us.” The hit NBC drama incorporated the pandemic in its fifth season, but appeared to abandon it in last week’s season six premiere. Last year’s pilot for NBC’s “Mr. Mayor,” Poniewozik added, “yada-yadas the pandemic away.”
Poniewozik spoke out about his protest Monday morning in an MSNBC interview.
“It’s kind of an unsettling phenomenon where shows are sort of taking the standpoint of, ‘okay in the world of our show, the pandemic did happen, it existed and was a real thing. But now it’s over. It somehow got fixed, yada-yada, yada, and the rest of you are sort of out on your own,’” the TV critic said on “Morning Joe.”
Two questions are required.
To begin with, Poniewozik asks: What is the purpose of escapism? Poniewozik seems to believe that art should revolve around politics.
That’s a redundant question. The answer is “yes,” and I know that because the left is very adamant that anything and everything carry their message. Poniewozik is angry that things aren’t and are, instead, focusing on other storylines that help an audience find relatability and don’t bore them with repetitiveness, causing them to tune out.
If you are interested in the Sex and the City reboot constantly revolved around a virus instead of women loving and lusting in the city, then people wouldn’t watch. They’re there to watch Carrie navigate sexual relationships, not preach about the importance of masks.
Second, Poniewozik wants people to talk about the pandemic. It’s not like people aren’t aware of it, and to be sure, people have already picked their corners. It is highly unlikely that someone who has not been scared by Omicron will suddenly reconsider his position after watching an episode. Blackish.
That is why the answer has already been found. They want to drive it so deep into your consciousness like they’ve done with climate change and feminism so that it becomes your norm. The pandemic is something they want to force you into accepting it and all that comes with it. Doing so makes you accept a lot more.
It’s disgusting to think about, really. It has claimed the lives of millions through either the virus or the effects of regulations and lockdowns. But the Left wants to keep us stuck in this and continue the suffering.
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