For the Left, everything has to be destroyed and rebuilt to their will. Nothing can exist for the sake of existing, least of all entertainment.
So they politicize everything to advance their agenda. Even if it means destroying culture in the process (a feature, not a bug, in their eyes).
So when Bloomberg's opinion section tries to make Denis Villeneuve's Dune about, well, anything but a sci-fi space epic, it's no surprise:
Bro what
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) March 14, 2024
‘Dune’ Is a Climate Story We Can Actually Root For
Not EVERYTHING needs to be interpreted as a Left Wing struggle session for modern audiences
Sometimes a story is about the Muad'dib, not climate change
https://t.co/RE2zY7UT1U via @opinion
Let's take a look at the logic behind this:
As you can tell from the reader numbers on my columns, it is often very difficult to get people to consume content about the climate. In other news, a climate-based film is the biggest movie in America.
Here’s how to make it make sense: If you write a news article or column about climate, the odds are strong it will be too depressing, too repetitive or too wonky to attract eyeballs. But if you make 2 Dune 2 Sandy starring Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh and several other beautiful people riding cool spaceships and giant worms, people will line up to see it. It turns out the best route for delivering climate messages is often an indirect one.
First, I can't possibly imagine why it's difficult to get people to 'consume content about the climate.' The world has had a fever since I was in kindergarten (1988, for those of you wondering); acid rain was going to kill us all and by now, any costal city was supposed to be well under water.
Except we watch absolutely none of those predictions come to fruition and people like John Kerry and Barack Obama continue to live their lives without regard for the consequences they tell us are coming. Kerry jets around the globe, privately, of course and Obama bought a waterfront mansion in Martha's Vineyard.
Those are not things one does if one thinks the planet has a fever. But when the deadline for their hysterical predictions pass, they move the goal posts.
'No, no! We really mean it this time!'
To top it all off, the only 'solution' to climate change invariably seems to be us -- the little people -- making the sacrifices. We can't have gas stoves, we can't travel (even commercially), we can't own cars, we can't live in nice houses, we can't eat meat or own pets. Expensive, prohibitive carbon offset credits and taxes always impact us the most, too.
Maybe it's difficult to get people to consume climate content because people -- by and large -- don't like being spoon-fed lies. For decades.
It's also not the first time Bloomberg has tried to tie Dune to climate change.
⚡️ "Dune" just got more real as California relies on "toilet-to-tap" to help ease another painful drought https://t.co/6QRpO4z8EK
— Bloomberg Opinion (@opinion) May 19, 2021
What's the definition of insanity, again?
But I digress.
“Sometimes a story is about the Muad'dib, not climate change” pic.twitter.com/5op5Jm4g2S
— Brian Doherty (@BDOH) March 14, 2024
Indeed.
Dune is a fantastic story about political intrigue, power, love, and fate. What it isn't is some treatise on climate change.
It must be tedious to be a Liberal, constantly obsessing. I'm glad I can watch a movie and just be entertained.
— Steve Reich (@Steve_Reich) March 14, 2024
It's exhausting and I'm so fed up with it. But it's the world the Left wants: everything is political. You can never escape it, and must always have a political thought in your head.
Sometimes, a gal just wants to watch Paul Atreides ride a sand worm across Arrakis.
that's the point of cultural revolutions... to take everything and bend it to your will
— Murfrees-Bircho (@Birch2124) March 14, 2024
And this is where it's so dangerous.
This politicization of movies, books, television not only creates a cultural desert (as I wrote about here), it's ultimate goal is the upheaval of current society and its culture, with the goal of supplanting it with their own Marxist garbage. This is why they retcon things like The Matrix and say it's an allegory for transgenderism, even though there was nothing in the movie to suggest that.
The other insidious part of this is their anger at the rejection of this new form of storytelling. Box office receipts for increasingly woke, poorly executed movies have been terrible. The Marvels and Madame Web are just two examples of movies with gigantic budgets and middling returns.
But rather than give audiences what they want, at least one Disney executive blamed the fans, scolding them for wanting 'regressive stereotypes' in movies.
A Disney executive basically admits they're worried they've lost the 'Get Woke, Go Broke' crowd (from @MattBelloni's Puck newsletter) pic.twitter.com/rV0n3UBy9u
— Nick Field (@nick_field90) February 19, 2024
No, we just want good stories, with good, realistic characters. We're tired of the girl-boss trope wherein any female lead has zero flaws, no internal conflict, and no character arc. We're tired of men being buffoons (or worse). And we're tired of studios taking beloved properties and destroying them.
Dune is no more about climate change than it is about ballerinas.
The reason it's been so successful is because it does all the things audiences want: tells a good story, with intriguing characters who have to grow, learn, and change, with incredible visuals and masterful direction. It's a sci-fi movie made for adults, and audiences love it.
Thank you! We can just enjoy quality movies and shows for what they are without making everything about politics or whatever cause we’re into. https://t.co/tF1GZ81bqP
— Sound the Dread Alarm (@_ThisJustin_) March 14, 2024
Amen.
So stop trying to force a political agenda, and start asking yourselves why movies like Dune are being so well received. Maybe you'll learn a thing or two.
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