Parasitic Storytelling
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- Опубліковано 11 жов 2024
- The rise of parasitic "woke" storytelling is something many have noticed in movie franchises like Star Wars and several others. We examine the process of inversion and look at possible solutions hidden within that process.
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This helps explain why The Force Awakens was so bad. After having just slain the emperor in RotJ and being at the highest point they've ever been, the good guys suddenly come back as "The Resistance" instead of "The Rebellion". People who were victors are now suddenly underdogs again. This under-privileged position is necessary for morality in postmodernism. You cannot be good unless you are oppressed and suffering, since lack of oppression or suffering is privilege and therefore bad.
C'mon, a "lack of oppression" upon you, if oppression does continue to exist, means you have some "elite" characteristic that separates you from the "ordinary" life of being oppressed. Cain and Abel are a good myth to describe the oppressor against the oppressed in an eternal struggle. Cain's "oppression", (murdering his brother) was "caused" by Cain, the Oppressor feeling "jealous" of Abel's "better life". Suggesting Cain's emotions were the "problem" while Abel was "oblivious" of any "wrong" on his own part. We don't have to "condemn" people who complain about a "bad lot in life". Using that myth, you can construct your own "ethos" of who deserves what - "Equality" often arises from correct understanding of YOUR flawed emotions, those that YOU know well and should understand. Much more difficult to determine "others" emotions. Work on yours, first.
@@robertcox14 If you are not willing to fight for a better life, you are a coward and deserve to be the trash of society. Life is not fair, Cain and Abel are perfect examples as Abel is highly privileged by God for no reason. Was it just? No. So Cain's murder was justified.
Take what you want by force, because other people are interested in keeping you down for their own benefit.
@@nihilism6226 Possibly, a conversation of Cain telling Abel that he was "unhappy" at his own failure when Abel was doing so well, would have had Abel say, "I'm sorry you're not doing well, how can I help you succeed, because I don't want to see my brother in pain." Dialogue can avoid terrible conflicts arising from simple misunderstandings.
@@robertcox14 That kind of support never comes, people want to keep everyone around as low as possible. You see it with governments and politicians. If you are above everyone, you reap incredible benefits, so there is a good reason for that too.
@@nihilism6226 Nihilism isn't very positive, so I guess you like "murder".
The Devil can't create, only alter and destroy.
And imitate.
Angelic Kingdom Hieroglyphs yeah, that’s probably because god is everyone at the same time and both past, present and future exist simultaneously to each other. Each cog in the machine is able to move all the others at the same time. Each “Q bit” that moves has actually created a new universe or “new crystalline frame” in existence. We shift through these constantly, and infinitely. All is perception, whether dark or light, selfishness or selflessness. Each has a self organising balancing effect in the energy everywhere at the same time.
where did you get that one?
There is no devil.
Daniel L define “good”.
It's funny that as a new generation of storytellers start telling Return of the King stories, they will have to be presented, told, and sold in underground shadowy networks, like the raunchy Underground Comix of the 80s. It's so upside-down. The reclusive writer/artist hiding in his basement getting his sick kicks making unforgivable stories about King Arthur, saints, and righteous heroes.
It's like being a spy in your own country hahahaha.
Unless the writer is a controlled opposition or screeners of wrong thinkers.
Then it's double agent chessmaster stuff .
Thing is its all going to get really really obviously silly very soon. Brexit and Trump were thresholds of nihilism that couldn't be crossed - even uninformed normies realised it was getting absurd.
Isn't that the place where truly great works of fiction come from? The stories that might get one thrown out of a village, but the author would rather write with the risk than live in the village without telling the story.
It's true. Every time I write a story, I automatically think about which female characters will be in it and how I will portray them in an empowered, acceptable way. Sometimes I get a little thrill thinking about writing a story with no women in it at all.
@@Dyrnwyn Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels had an entire romantic subplot that was completely cut from the film at the last minute. A great decision that resulted in a brilliant and classic film. Romantic subplots are the kind of by-the-numbers, design by formula elements that should be thrown out imo. Not everything needs romantic subplots. Although I also liked the Ali G movie approach which split the screen during the romantic moment, with Ali G on one side apologizing to camera for the scene, and explaining that he had to have scenes like that in the film to make women think he is sensitive.
This is quite chilling when you see it all laid out like that. It seems almost too audacious to be true, yet here it is right before our eyes.
This guy is a genius level thinker
Enola Holmes:
"- Mommy I'm having trouble getting these flower petals in my painting to look right. Do you have any tips on how to do it better?
- DONT TRUST MEN!! ReeeeeEEEE!
- Um..oo..ok then..."
That part made me bust out laughing when I heard that
Interestingly I'm reading Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray. It starts with all of the witty homoerotic decadence Wilde is famous for, but soon the difference between reality and dream begins to cleave the story's main character in two. So that as Mr. Gray descends, while remaining charming, his portrait becomes more and more hideous, giving us Wilde's own doubts about his own philosophy. There are indeed ways to flip the script. I have often seen that the antidote to postmodern irony is bitter irony. Thanks Jonathan. More thoughts to ponder.
Rather like judo I use the intertia of the argument to carry it through to its conclusion. This is usually enthusing about an absurd end game like dismantling the police force (lawlessness), liberating children from the family unit (orphanages) or abolishing capitalism (private property) - all of which were once on the BLM website 'What we are about' page. When done in front of an audience (with enough feigned enthusiasm) it easily exposes the implication of demolition as an aim in itself.
I think we have to embrace the tragedy as individuals. Going down the correct path makes you very vulnerable emotionally/psychically today. A new social contract must reject this missionary/extortion work or otherwise it must create enough people strong enough to treat it with the categorical prejudice it deserves.
Exactly - it is ambiguity which is essential to the greatest works of art.
Such a good book
This very podcast is, to me personally, a masterpiece in itself none the less, or in order to be humble as we should, a seed sowed in fertile soil. Good job carver!
A parallel to this in craft is “deskilling.” It’s not enough to critique old art, unskilled art must be made the new institutional standard.
So true. Modern art as an example. Even a small child can tell that there is very little skill involved.
People pissing on the floor and covering themselves in paint for example.
You're here too.
Nice
@@LadyIarConnacht The quality of art should not be measured by skill, but rather by the emotion it can elicit. I suggest you watch this video on the subject to better understand what I mean: ua-cam.com/video/v5DqmTtCPiQ/v-deo.html
So true, my friend. So much to think about.
This is such an exciting time to be a creator. Finally, I’ve quit caring about the filters and Overton window I’m supposed to adhere to as a country musician. I’ve stopped being an entertainer, and started being an artist.
I FELT this has been happening for years but didn't have the language to articulate it. Like my Spidey Sense was tingling. This video is a great confirmation that I'm NOT crazy even though the review of critics would have me thinking otherwise. I saw it happen in the TV series 'The Magicians' . Where I was being sold a story that the traditionally strong characters from the first season were to be reduced to idiots by the 2nd or 3rd season.
I quite enjoyed The Magicians and found it non offensively woke, although I can't deny its woke elements.
It's been a gradual and subtle subversion in Hollywood, but they became quite desperate in recent years.
@@pilouuuu I don't believe The Magicians was inherently bad as a show because of this, but it wasn't pleasing to my palate. If wokeness had a Scoffold level of subverse spiciness, what I felt was taking place exceeded my tolerance level at that time and soured the experience for me. There certainly was an entertaining framework built in that show to enjoy but I couldn't pull my mind off those small thematic mustard stains sprinkled throughout the show.
What they did to Quentin by the end of the penultimate season of The Magicians absolutely gutted the heart and soul of the show and ruined any enjoyment I had for the final season (which felt like a painful chore to watch). The show was watchable, but it felt hollow and depressing.
@@Hylanvahr I fell off the ship sometime during season 3. My friend held out longer and told me that they killed off Penny and brought him back as a broken shell of his former self. That brought a tear to my eye.😥😰
Excellent.
John gives his seal of approval! Righteous!
John, are you up for writing a new chapter for the Bible - we need updates in the Koran, as well. Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology and Human Biology are needed to get rid of "ancient prejudices" - dividing human "societies" (plural) from realizing our new understandings of the "global village". J. Petersen wants to do some Bible stuff, maybe some talk with him? I have a short story about a "modern" Adam and Eve, that "flip" idea of making Eve the "lead character". Pageau seems weak on Eastern ideals - but you have smarts there, interesting to mix Buddhism in with a "text" devoted to creating new sacred scriptures.
Everything is upside down and that's why I finally decided to walk away from Hollywood movies and shows entirely. It's not worth sifting through a mountain of garbage to find something semi-enjoyable, but still has the stench of woke about it. While great films and stories are woven into the culture, which makes it difficult to let go, once I realized we will no longer get any good movies like the classics (Jaws, Jurassic Park, Back to the Future, and especially, Lord of the Rings) it made it easy for me to walk away. Besides, I don't believe in giving money to someone who hates me. Great analysis, as always, Jonathan.
Daredevil is worthwhile. So is Spiderman No Way Home.
@@RussellNelson I refused to see it, but my son liked No Way Home, too. But a decent film does not make a pattern or trend. A reprieve isn't a course correction.
Besides, there are still woke elements in it, they just dialed it back a bit. It's why the pop cult critics such as Nerdrotic always preface reviews with "It wasn't that woke". Talk about damning with feint praise.
Also, Tom Holland came out right after the movie released calling for a "more diverse Spider-man". Thank you for your comment and recommendation, though.
In NYC they put a statue of Medusa holding severed head of Perseus
Bad news for Andromeda.
@@jamieyoung9392 lol!
You can't be serious
@@jamieyoung9392 that’s the problem, isn’t it. Virtue is defeated and the damsel will not be saved.
@@PauperPeccator Exactly. They haven't thought their image through. In passing, if one was to have a contemporary-style female warrior rescue Andromeda, the whole point of the myth would be negated. But that's what they want, isn't it?
My personal solution is to simply check out. I do not support these post modernists and their bastardization of media and pop culture. So I simply take my money elsewhere like manga and anime or the old versions of tgese media e.g. OG Star Trek dvds. My lone actions may not amount to much but it is for my own benefit.
Asian culture is not contamined by woke?
@@aurelienbaude8646 largely no. You do see some small elements of it. Heck! There is a BLM movement in Japan. JAPAN! But the majority of the culture abhors postmodernism and its ills. Women in anime, manga and heneral society there still look attractive and haven't embraced feminazism.
@MNI Andes that trend really sickens me.......
Hi, can you send me a list of stuff to watch with my 9 year old boy and even my 13 year old daughter. I would be most grateful
@@daddycool228
Fist of the northstar
Cassharn
Gatchaman
Golden bat
Gao gai gar
Golden warrior gold lithan
Chargeman Ken (it's pretty bad)
Baoh
Nobelesse
God of highschool
Full metal alchemist (has a scene where a dad offs his daughter or something )
Kaze no stigma
Black blood brothers
Blade
My death flags show no sign of ending
Sengoku basara
Punderer
Chrome shelled regios
Original Japanese dub of shin Chan as adult swim have corrupted it.
Tsurupika Hagenaru
Shurato
Yokai watch
Saint seiya
Hunter x hunter
Ergo proxy
Vampire Hunter D
Anime is very open with sexuality so you have to watch and screen the episodes before hand
Or some sexual scene or something may show up.
Also you have to watch the episodes before hand to see if there is any incest as it happened with in an episode of detective Conan .
I didn't recommend Jojo as it is too sexual so some in the list would require checking with other websites
In video games
Dragons dogma
Nino kuni 1 2
Snack world
Smash Bros ultimate
Parasitic ideas (like Gad Saad talks about) create parasitic stories.
I loved the way you worded it too: the margin must replace the center while remaining the margin. Talk about wanting your cake and eating it!
Reminds me of a woke meme. Band-aid released a whole array of different "skin colour" bandages and their only response was to clap back saying the new product is about 100 years late. Its an eternal pants-shitting. You bend the knee, and they ask you to crawl.
Always a good day when a new analysis vid comes out 😤👌
I don't mind seeing women and people of color and diversity in film and media, I just wish it felt more natural, instead of so forced,
like it's obvious *why* they're saying/doing x or why specific people are there, instead of just being *people* are there. It's like everything needs to be categorized now, like we must wear our inside, (what makes each of us our own self) on the outside, so everyone can see we're "good?" or something.
(if that makes sense)
Edit:You've got my sub
Funnily enough a lot of the stories i enjoy that feature woman, LGBT and other races fairly prominently often get cancelled or just ignored, and we get this weird, hamfisted trash thats trying to tell us how to think instead.. Really makes you understand the powers that be really arent trying being just.
Yuri Bezmenov
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@@ORLY911 What stories?
they did this with game of thrones, cars, ghostbusters, oceans11, jamesbond, and almost anything out of disney its insane how ubiquitous it is now
Yep its all over the place. Even Trolls World Tour (the African trolls bring life back to the world)
Game of Thrones(the books) have a hippy revolutionary author. GRRM was a conscientious objector to Vietnam, and has systematically killed the traditional male hero figures leaving Westeros open to female rule. If you want more on this, I recommend Preston Jacobs channel.
You are correct on the others, but I just wanted to enlighten you a little about GoT.
Matthew Cole Yup. The books are subversive garbage written by a cliffhanger hack - it’s just a reality show dressed in a thin ”fantasy”-garb.
@@christianbjorck816 true
@@Oldkingcole1125 yet Bran becomes king.
Same idea being explained in Gad Saad’s new book - he talks about a the parasitic mind. Deep stuff and powerful. Thanks Jonathan
This explains a lot.
How many times have I started a Netflix series and then been disgusted when I got deep enough into the story to discover this propagandizing? Why am I done with Star Wars and Marvel? Spot on Jonathon. "Return of the King". Good work.
When I watched The Force Awakens, I felt kind of traumatized for some reason by Han Solo's death. There was something off about it. At first I thought it was just seeing a childhood hero dying in front of me. But that wasn't it. Because it wsn;t just the death it was the way he died, And also the way he was portrayed as this loser dad who left when things got too difficult. It felt like manipulation.
This is the meme that puts the pieces together. The old guard has to be constantly dredged up in increasingly binary and caricatured ways to justify the acceleration to the left and the violent hostility towards any conservative virtues. The lord of the flies must liquify its meal before it consumes it.
Might makes right
Strength becomes the truth
Wow, that's brilliantly disgusting.
Excellent use of the Evergreen clip. That's some wild stuff; if anyone has not checked it out, see Benjamin Boyce's documentary playlist. Paradigmatic is the word that comes to mind.
The greatest series that I can never manage to get through....only because of how enraging it is.
Brilliant pop culture story analysis . You had me Lol when you compared Woke storytelling ti COVID......
Perfect......🤣🤣🤣🤣
Maybe you've already watched his other videos, but if not, I would recommend so. In them he even teaches to see reality in this symbolic lenses and that gives you the ability to compare things that usually one would not think as comparable, just like woke storytelling and coronavirus.
@@ZlotyChannel all about the patterns. Alex Jones is right.. it's math. LOL once you see the world this way you can never go back.
This is brilliant. As a novellist, I'm so glad you're covering this. I fear for the future of creative storytelling.
Same here as a writer and editor!
@Aye Yuh Aye Yuh This predates 2016 and is beginning to march through popular fiction genres such as YA and NA, and now increasingly romance.
I'm the opposite. I think we're going to see a 2nd Renaissance of the arts towards the end of this decade.
A void is being left by all the major franchises and creators getting hallowed out. People everywhere are demoralized from all the nihilism that has accompanied post modern culture, and many are either tuning out completely or delving into other mediums. As Johnathon hints at towards the end of the video, as the center opens up from all the deconstruction, the silver lining is that, try as they may, the margins can never fully replace the center. They are the margins for a reason. In the end, parasites (the margins, forcefully trying to occupy the center) die without a host and the 'King' (a metaphor for normality, eternal truths) inevitably returns.
Now, more than ever, it's time indie creators to reclaim the arts. For creative people, the next decades will be very opportune for filling the cavities left by post modernism. Hopefully, society will at last learn to kill these ideological parasites so future generations can safeguard themselves, and the arts, against this pattern in the future.
@@benakinjo Well said! I'd love to connect with other creators who feel as you do.
Jonathan, your breath of knowledge concerning symbolic mondernity astounds me. This extends to the biblical, as well. I have Immense gratitude for your work.
Thanks, brother.
We're immersed in a culture of terrible stories because good stories are exceedingly difficult. The waking mind doesn't have the power on its own, and it will inevitably result in mere propaganda if relied upon. One must draw inspiration from the unconscious.
Quiet the mind, let experience fill your being. Truth will reveal itself. The best stories will survive.
C.S. Lewis referred to an attack on the center as “men without chests” in The Abolition of Man. It brings to mind a conversation he has in the book about one man describing a waterfall as pretty and the other man saying it’s sublime. We see something at work perhaps in both, but it might not be what we think.
Is that a good book, what might you suggest from Lewis?
@@RunninUpThatHillh The Space Trilogy
@@GITAHxgCoo thanks!
@@GITAHxgCoo :D It amazes me that I never heard of the Space Trilogy until I was 23, and had already read maybe five of Lewis' books (not counting the entire Chronicles of Narnia). Space Trilogy, for sure.
@@RunninUpThatHillh I recommend The Screwtape Letters
It does not matter if at the end the SJWs will not have anything more to infect, our cultural icons, entertainment franchises and childhood role models have already been demolished. I do not care why they did it or how they are doing it or what will they destroy next, I want to read a Star Wars Expanded Universe book and not be angry at Disney Star Wars for what they turned the characters into. I want to read a comic book from years ago and not be furious or sad about how those classic characters were deconstructed until I stopped buying new ones. But I am not gonna get that since I have good and long memory and even if I want to ignore the new horrors, I saw them, it happened. It was malicious and pervasive and dissent was viciously silenced. As a paying customer, or even just a human interacting with art, I have a right to be upset.
Put away childish things
We need not dwell upon what has been lost. It is for us to build anew atop the ruins of the old. New worlds, new heroes, and new songs filled with virtuous inspirations all written and told with hard work and honest hearts. That's how we move forward.
I've been waiting for this video for a long time, Mr. Jonathan, sir. And I find some confirmation in your insight that the "Return of the King" trope is the trope to look at and look for.
Thank you for all of the great work.
This is my favourite video Jonathan. I keep coming back to it… I have always found it very telling that the new religion insists on dragging out all the Western film classics one by one to behead them. Thanks
In a tight competition , this is one of your best lectures. I watch this channel to learn and to get a boost of hope. Thanks for producing this content.
The thing that irritates me is that a good story, a true story, resonates with us as human beings. We feel like they are right, we feel like they are the way they should be. So the question is: how do so many people, enough to mass produce parasitic stories, break away from that and get this wrong set of stories stuck in their head? What's the point when it all went wrong?
Jonathan talks about the need to self other. Maybe it started with the “you’re special” movement. So everyone starts feeling special and disconnected from the whole therefore it is easy for them to slip into the pattern of “otherness” and without positive reinforcement of positive conformity or at least its articulation, you get a lot of more or less the same type of people believing they are different. As that number of “different” people grow more and more exceptions are made to accommodate (compassion right?) and that creates a sort of destabilization for the “normal” and there’s probably some resentment. Not only that but since the “other” is to be “accommodated” and not “integrated” they never learn assimilation or normative behavior and it kind of perpetuates itself. It’s like you don’t learn proper behavior, you don’t teach proper behavior and as a species maybe that’s a a necessary part of our existence. As you continually reinforce your “otherness” you become increasingly detached from what came before and the desire to tear down and “set right” may increase as well.
Maybe the sixties too
@MNI Andes It is the fantasy of the artificial feminine Matrix. Technological and psychological Mother archetype protects one from reality, and pulls one closer to death (release from struggle). It give power without struggles, and "loves" weakness. It can then care you to death. You will be equal, because you will be dead. A lot of people hate reality because it has hierarchy. Basically, you want reality and the people in it to be your Mother and even the field. Corrupted people feed it, so one will willingly give up all their power to Mommy, an Illusion they victimize themselves for. The the corrupt have all your power.
If you dare pry into the honest feelings of most western women you will find it is rare to find one that doesn't rave over Wonder Woman.
The Christian archetype can, and probably has been, pushed too far too.
Women can feel robbed of their agency and opppressed by the idea that their lives are prescribed for them by evolutionary biology. And it is true, not all women are bound to have children and to form pairs with men who look after them.
When confronted with the choice however, it is revealing how many angry feminists don't question their inbuilt hypergamy. Why shouldn't they want a man who is tall and strong with a symetrical face and earns a lot of money - 'it has nothing to do with women being weak and needing a nest in which to have children' - does it!?
Next time your girlfriend takes food from your plate without asking - think about the implicit understanding in that act about your societal status/role versus theirs.
@MatrixQ... I'd like to thank you for asking what is a profound question, one which has initiated some equally profound and thought provoking responses. David, Corey, and Andy have all provided perspectives no doubt drawing on life experience. I can contribute what I have spent time and attention looking into: Mary Douglas's Cultural Theory, in particular her group vs grid matrix. Good stories resonate with the feeling of striving for adherence to the attributes of harmonic society, I would suggest. Because this harmony is no longer sought, in fact, it is being systematically opposed/ dismantled/ _____ (fill in the gap), the other three types are becoming increasingly apparent - competition, disassociation, and cult-like behaviour.
I'm thinking of that Moana pyramid with seashell on top. Let's play out return of the king:
She gets a son, he honors his mother not by removing the seashell but by building pilars around the shell and putting a stone slab on top, repeat and mountain grows around the cave with a seashell inside which resembles the nativity icon:
orthodoxwiki.org/Nativity_icon
You have come up something amazing.
I was thrilled by the idea that civilization can be set into order by the Return of the King. It sings to the soul.
a wonderful analysis! this makes me angry buy also gives me hope, as conservative storyteller who's sick of being told i'm a horrible person because of my skin color, religion, or because i'm not a woman. my family left the USSR once we COULD/were allowed (1991), I'm not going back to this willingly. i'm don't pretend to be brave, but i'll fight for my freedom, i have to.
Sad to see Stranger Things featured as an example in this video, but it's true. The first season was gold, the second season was also very good, but in the third (last season), that's when everything really flips as you described. :(
Never clicked on a video faster before in my life
I appreciate this video, as it really outlines how much of a fad today's woke politics really are, despite how fervently woke individuals will assert to the contrary. If anything, they are going to make future generations resentful with how forceful their politics are, as opposed to being given the opportunity to be free to choose one's own methods of thinking and understanding.
I'm conflicted about Moana; in my own interpretation, I felt like the film was trying to establish that, ultimately, the relationship between her and Maui broaches on symbiosis: Mainly that the two characters couldn't save the world without each other.
Try Cobra Kai. That has a truly unexpected hero
I'm going to save this video to my, "favorites," list so when my wife complains that I don't like to watch movies anymore I will tell her to watch your video for an explanation as to why (post)modern big and small screen media disgusts me.
I started watching Korean dramas about 2 years ago for this reason. They just like to tell good stories without the woke bashing
Same here👍
On Tuesday morning, on a local radio program, I listened to a telephone interview with Gad Saad, author of the book The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense. On Wednesday morning, I watched your video on Parasitic Storytelling. Both of you have exposed a contagion that has infected Western Civilization, how it has spread, and the damage that it has done and is doing, but more important, each of you has offered a solution for how to combat it. Now that we have been inoculated with intellectual antigens, it's up to each of us to engage in the battle; even if we feel like Hobbits at the Black Gate of Mordor, engage we must.
BIIIIG one from Mister Pageau! Well done!
A good example of a newer film without this parasitic approach to storytelling would be Peanut Butter Falcon. It does a beautiful job of demonstrating the benefits and shortcomings of masculine and feminine qualities, bringing them together to form a balance in guardianship.
Thank you JP - nice distillation of the Holy Spirit's message to story tellers in these generations. Look at the nations and watch-- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.
Thank you for laying out not just movies but also in this video, but how politics and power are parasitic when people act out of greed.
Came here by chance, but thoroughly enjoyed this video. Very interesting indeed Thank you Jonathan!
Great video. I think a lot of the issues with "art" these days is that the whole modern day feminism boils down to simply acting like bad men. Not even acting like good men, acting like bad men.
A point on Black Panther.
The villain was portrayed heroically and was martyred. His death was made to inspire young black men in particular to adopt a warriors mindset in order to allow their physical body to be destroyed in pursuit of a revolutionary goal of “racial revenge.”
Oddly enough, in a synchromystical occurrence, the actor who played Black Panther died shortly after the George Floyd riots enflamed.
Now the most popular (and highest grossing) black hero of all time has died and left many black children bereft of a hero, and dare I say, a father figure.
If one does not recognize the mysterious workings of the Creator in these synchronicities then they have not the eyes to see.
The movie usurped the true good hearted hero to inject an evil message. And now the man who personified the hero is dead in reality.
Anyone who uses art to propagate illusion could be considered a “sorcerer.”
Art is meant to spread beauty, inspiration and truth. It is meant to be a continuation of the Creators projection of the Love-Light.
Please continue to shine truth on these deceptions brother.
I was going to say, Black Panther was only allowed to "return" because he was a king that affirmed their worldview, which I think is bogus.
Googled Stranger Things Steve and J.K. Huysmans and some of their first results both showed them with the same pose and face. Coincidence? Hmmm... 🤔
I must agree with the traditionalists like Evola and Guenon when they say we are in the age of dissolution..
yes we must ride the tiger
There is nothing hidden. For properly functioning eyes & ears
whoever has ears to hear should hear
I’m glad many other people notice these things in movies and society overall. The truth will come out to light sooner or later but unfortunately many don’t care about the truth.
1 minute into the video and I'm already worked up.
This phenomenon really teaches you to remember to breathe and keep your calm. :)
That clip of Wonderwoman hurtling into the church and smashing its steeple, standing atop of its ruins, was maddening.
As always, great and profound video Jonathan. Your videos are not just useful and insightful, they are a refreshing sip of water in the middle of a desert. Though usually that water might not imply good news. Anyways, thank you for your work!
Eventually the dark night has to make room to be filled with light of the Sun.
Do not let your hearts be troubled for these things must happen.
Thanks for your work Mr. Pageau, I find this format so engaging, insightful, and packed full of insight
Thank you, thank you, thank you Jonathon! We need to tell better stories. This is something I am working on right now. I encourage all to do the same.
Excellent video!
I can't remember if you covered this but what are tradition roles of females in traditional narrative?
I often see the subversion of male roles but then I wonder if there's a converse heroines journey to Campells Heroes journey?
Hey, Jonathan, I would be very interested go hear what you have to say about Cobra Kai. I believe that, symbolically speaking, it's a very balanced series. I just hope that they don't 180 woke now that Netflix has taken over production.
That movie came to my mind too! 😀👍
Unfortunately, as Jonathan said, the first season(s) are a setup just for a powerful female character to take over in later seasons.
And there is a reason that each and every of these new stories crash and burn. Every single time.
Well, Captain Marvel did pretty well actually.
variety.com/2019/film/news/captain-marvel-1-billion-box-office-1203175093/
I think the cultural nihilism has a way to go until people wake up to it as being pointless.
@@AndyJarman I wouldn't trust that box office number. It's suspicious how that film and Rise of Skywalker both only just crawled over a billion, despite enormous marketing blitzes. Home video sales tell the real story - Captain Marvel sold closer to Solo on home video - well behind other Avengers movies. Something like $65m, much lower than the near $200m for Favreau's Iron Man which kicked off the MCU.
@@AndyJarman Cap Marvel is the worse example, Disney bought tons of tickets to try and gets asses in the theater seats skewing the numbers.
@@AndyJarman movie visitors numbers increased rapidly after China opened the movie doors to the West. Wonder why? 😂
1. I truly hope (new) storytellers start redoing everything that has been "deconstructed" during the last decade
2. But still concerned about the fact that culture itself is drowning below the woke seas as we speak
3. Eventually wise kids will figure out that the best story (which is not) ever is Christianity
4. JBP is your best option if you want to understand why (biblical series of lectures)
5. Congrats to Mr. Pageau that with a little help from his friends prepared such a nice video
New subscriber here...I was fascinated by symbolism many decades ago. You are causing me to suspect I may need to close a circle.
We stopped watching TV/movies about 6 years ago. Entertainment has been garbage for so long, can't take it anymore
I love those short analysis videos.
One of your best videos imo. No mind blowing symbolic revaluations, but a succinct explanation of a cultural phenomenon
Great video! By the way, Jonathan, I recommend you to watch the HBO sci-fi show Raised by Wolves. It has plenty of biblical and occultist references, and it is interesting what it shows about parenthood and how ideologies try to control newer generations, something which may determine the fate of humanity.
My first account of this type of storytelling that I can remember is a TV Series called "Person of Interest". The first two seasons had 2 Male leading characters that carried the show very well. Then season 3 happened when they started shoehorning in Female leads that nobody asked for. By the time the series ended on season five (which was shorted by the way) it crashed and burned for me. FYI the series was made back in 2011
Thank you Jonathan. :)
I loved this video and really appreciated the positive closing.
Awesome. Clear. Useful. Thought provoking and inspiring. Keep this up! We need these contributions to public dialogue.
concise, timely, well documented, insightful. thank you.
Thank you for doing this important analysis. It's easy to see something is there, but you help give it definition.
Interesting concept but what are you recommending to replace the old storytelling model?
Toate clipurile sunt despre teme grave de actualitate, analizate in duhul Adevărului. Va mulțumesc pentru efortul si energia dumneavoastră.
I will be frank, even though this never wins over any friends for me.
The entirety of the film industry is oriented toward the destruction of Logos - one way or another.
Muddling up and confusing, what since creation was separated and clearly defined.
It is interesting to notice people like yourself doing the hard work of slowly and systematically unravelling the modern tropes.
What seems to be lacking in this discussion is the reference to Logos. There's my two cents.
Absolutely superb video Jonathan. I was saying almost precisely the same thing last weekend in the context of opera, but this is a much more general account of the pattern. Very illuminating.
I loved the first season of Stranger Things because it was everything I loved about my childhood, then season 2 happened, which I didn’t notice or remember because I was still in the honeymoon phase of season 1. Then season 3 came out and it was just unrecognizable. Every male character was an embarrassment and all the female characters were exalted to nauseating degrees. It was as though the entire third season was written by a third-wave feminist. I don’t even care about season 4. I will not watch it. The woketards lured me in with nostalgia and beat me over the head with their woke BS. Never again. My guess is that Nostalgia has been weaponized to assimilate more woketards.
As a person who hated S3 like you, S4 is really good, I personally think that it's on the same level or a bit lower than S1 because it returned to have that horror style that made Stranger Things Stranger Things
It seems like the boys is having the same treatment
Ennis was always sus (among us reference)
Indeed. When they introduced that stormfront character and the Nazi backstory, I knew it was gonna be a downward spiral. (Even though the whole idea of that show is postmodern)
@@DFMoray yup, I wonder if that side part haircut on femminists heads may be in fact proof of a brain surgery that removed part of their brains?
The last few years it's been a smarter decision to either wait a few seasons to see if the SJW infection happens, or just plain wait till the whole thing is finished.
It is ironic that these stories actually manage to portray the natural progression of society. They teach us about the fallen nature of mankind.
However, good stories are supposed to give us the supernatural, a reality that transcends this pattern of decay. The best story defeats decay i.e. death, hence we must look at the gospel.
I think we might start seeing the rise the super couple soon. Hetero zombie slayers, sacrificial male characters performing heroic deeds to protect their investment in the pregnant heroine. The film Children of Men may well have a comeback as a cult classic.
I really appreciate this perfect video.
And that's why I cannot watch movies anymore 😂
Watch Sissi from 1955 😉
This is awesome stuff. The depiction of woke ideology as it exists today as parasitic is spot on. Very insightful. But I beg to differ on the comparison with communism, because of one key aspect: it never won the ideological war to become mainstream.
The comparison appeared when you imagined what would happen if woke ideology took over the "host", i.e., the entire culture, so their discourse would become meaningless-therefore they need to never win in order to keep themselves going. This was never actually the case with communism, if you consider the Cold War scenario. Ideological and military threats to communist parties never really disappeared, so the "outside menace" discourse was always true to some extent. This means the official discourse had always two layers of reality: for the one part, it served the purposes of some authoritarian leaders who aimed to keep their citizens at bay by fear mongering; for the other, it was a way to preserve revolutionary achievements against a real threat, since it was partially grounded to reality. (One may even ponder if this is not an intrinsic flaw of the communist revolutions of the 20th century, by the way.) It might be different if communism did actually take over the entire world and the "old perspective" ceased to make sense to people-maybe in this case the "permanent revolution" trope would become meaningless, and leaders would be forced to move on in their discourse.
Great video.
Would really love to hear about more examples of the proper actions that those in the margins should take in these times.
Thank you for your constant output of wisdom.
When stories are taken as entertainment and not symbolic, the stories end up driving behavior.
For instance
You can see this in ticket enforcement after a racing movie is released.
Or in hooning after a racing movie is released.
Cant believe how comfortably you addressed inversionism and the nature of hidden principles of the mass.
What a potent comparison with Huysmans!
There needs to be movies made about a time where movies were made to brainwash the masses and the heroes helped the masses become un-zombified returning to a more balanced enjoyable free world filled with families and community.
Incredibly interesting insight, thank you so much for sharing
Wonder Woman 1984! They tossed the "America Centric" red and blue and replaced it with an all GOLD and WINGED character resembling that of Isis, the Egyptian goddess.
Very good!
No fascists, no drinking of blood even metaphorically, careful balance. Thanks.
Jonathan, have you had a chance to see some of the videos from a channel called Black Pilled (Devon Stack)? he too has some really tight breakdowns of propaganda on movies from the 1960s 70s, 80s and 90s, which was more sutil than today's propaganda.
I think this guy has a symbolism organ that I'm missing somewhere
I barely watch anything new. Disgusting propaganda, mainstream porn and all round mockery of anything that is sound and common sense.
Jonathan, loved this. One question for you, how can an artist (in my case, painter & writer) create work that is contrary to modernism, but exist in modernity? As you and Deacon have suggested, reading fairytales is one way to go, but at what point would our content become too foreign to modern audience. What do you say to blend ing modernity with medieval to restore Christianity?
Have you been keeping up with his God's Dog graphic novel?
Anybody else keep getting unsubscribed from Jonathan's channel I swear I press that button two and three times
You've described it exponentially better than I can.
Did anyone else find this vid so satisfying they had to light a cigarette?
Very insightful, I kept wondering why these people would attack things everybody loves, rather than taking the risk of producing something new and try to compete. Thanks Jonathan, any thoughts on this tactic being coordinated or just manifested?