Lights, Camera … Propaganda
POSTED ON 21 JUL 24
BY TONY THOMASIN UNCATEGORIZED
TONY THOMAS
Joe and Jill Public have no idea how deep-state actors and green billionaires are manipulating them about global warming and renewables. For convenience I’ll call the manipulators the Green Blob.
The Blob dominates education, print, radio, and “newsy” TV. The Blob has now set its sights on TV streamers and movies. So far only a barely-noticeable fraction includes “climate” nudges. The Blob’s ambition is to get most or all of screen entertainment pushing the net-zero mantra by around 2030. It will be mostly injected slyly through almost subliminal tweaks of what seems to be straight-forward screen plots and dialogue.
The Blob knows that viewers don’t want to be preached at. So it’s funding clever and dedicated specialist teams to get at the script-writing community. These creatives are pretty green-left-minded anyway but don’t want “climate” turning their drafts into career-tanking flops. The Blob is re-assuring them that climate references are OK and providing templates on how to work them in surreptitiously.
The Blob is operating on too many fronts for me to catalogue in one essay. Instead I’ll just focus on Good Energy, a pint-sized but billionaire-funded operation specifically targeting Hollywood. The stakes are enormous: movies influence Western voters by the billion, myself included. I’m just your average lounge lizard but I’ve lost count of what I spend annually on movie outings and Netflix-type subscriptions. In Good Energy’s own words,
https://cliscep.com/2024/07/21/lights-camera-propaganda/
