Thread 17983307

Fiction is many many times more important in shaping society than news media or scholarly publications.

The average person mostly watches movies and tv series or reads popular fiction so their beliefs about the world are informed mainly by these. People who give a shit about the latest NYT op-ed are an insignificant minority, while a huge number of people's values and ideas are influenced by Top Gun: Maverick.

Most people don't read the news. They watch movies and shows. That is where they get their ideas about heroes, villains, and how the world works. A blockbuster film shapes culture way more than any newspaper column ever could. Fiction is the real public opinion machine.

>>17983307 (OP)
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>>17983339
>Most people don't read the news.
No, they watch videos about the news

Don't forget The Lord of the Rings.

>>17983307 (OP)
This used to be the case you mean, but with the rise of social media, people actually aren't as exposed to fiction as they used to be, instead they're more exposed to misleading, misinformed facsimiles of reality and constant fearmongering and Mean World Syndrome.

I'll even take this a step further and say that society was actually better off when news was gatekept to people that had the media literacy necessary to properly parse it and understand context while everyone else exposed themselves to fiction instead, because I think some level of escapism is necessary in an inherently complex society that would otherwise be difficult for the average person to make sense of, and would otherwise be better off exposed to media that is optimistic about the future and/or allows you to escape into a more optimistic fantasy. Nowadays everyone is an armchair expert because they watched a 40 second short-form video clip that intentionally leaves out context regarding its subject matter.

>>17983307 (OP)
Correct. That is why Jewish media control is such a big problem, and why freedom of the press is meaningless in a multicultural empire.

>>17983307 (OP)
Chick F'n Comics? Are you serious?

>>17983307 (OP)
desd

People don't read or watch fiction to learn, they do it for escapism. Which is fine, personally I only read non-fiction.

>>17983307 (OP)
The idea that a two-hour popcorn flick like Avengers has more cultural sway than decades of economic policy debates is peak brailnet cope. It’s a comforting story for people who'd rather analyze Marvel plot points than tax code. You think the elites shaping our actual institutions are getting their worldview from Netflix?

Fiction reflects culture, it doesn’t build the damn sewer systems or trade agreements. This is just cope for not engaging with the boring stuff that actually matters.