- Sep 22, 2013
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Has the media changed the way we talk about 'citizens-on-patrol'?
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On a college campus in America (a prestigious Ivy League school), teachers of Anthropology and Film Studies were being compelled by changes in world culture to promote Machiavellianism in cinema. From the early days of D.W. Griffith, films were characterized as either being too political or not political enough. The groundbreaking films of Alfred Hitchcock changed way audiences conceived of what was permissible on screen and the rise of pornography and horror genres created a social demand for art that spoke to just about everyone.
On this college campus, a young man who was being groomed to become a Hollywood prodigy was involved in a three-way scandal with a female film studies professor and his career counselor who were helping him pass grades easier so he could play competitive lacrosse for his nationally-ranked college team. The affair leaked into the press, and the young man (named Daniel) was labelled as a modern-day 'Icarus' whose scandalous behaviours drew allusions in the academics-critical press to other peer-pressure related sectors of society such as the use of illegal performance-enhancing steroids by athletes. Daniel hated the attention.
The film and anthropology teachers at Daniel's college were busy writing papers about the need for more movies that were actively reflective of 'real behaviors' of people in the modern world. Meanwhile, the rising American movie star Tom Cruise read of these stories about Daniel and thought about his involvement in the school-sports meditation film All the Right Moves. Cruise started making statements in the press such as, "If we're to praise the pluralism in America that fosters the development of alternative religious organizations such as the Church of Scientology, we must take time to evaluate the peer-pressures in the academic world that give rise to generations of athletes lured into the world of laissez-faire admissions and steroids use."
An idealistic Armenian man and Internet-blogger named Ajay Satan read Cruise's statements and complemented their pseudo-idealism by adding "Addressing the psycho-sociological processes that give rise to a culture of 'pressure-based achievement' helps us address the human needs of those fallen in the trap of profit-driven questionable social decision-making." Cruise read Satan's statements (on the World Discussion Forum) in 2005 and made a pact with him to do some joint-work together. Cruise and Satan consulted with each other over email and worked hand-in-hand, delivering complementary statements about pro-democracy values in the modern media-gauged world.
In 2010, Cruise and Satan had a disagreement and decided to go opposite ways. Satan was not happy with Cruise's insistence that promoting the Church of Scientology was vital for the progress of political culture in the USA. Cruise was unhappy with Satan's 'pseudo-vigilante' approach to politics dialogue. Satan even wrote an anti-establishmentarian essay on the Internet titled, "Water-Pistol Manifesto," in which he criticized the laissez-faire morality behind the marketing of apparent anti-violence themed toys in the modern consumer market. Satan formed his own faction of bloggers called the Idealists, while Cruise steadily and conspicuously promoted Scientology with friends he considered real allies and called the Pragmatists. The Idealists and the Pragmatists engaged in what came to be known as the Consumerism-Media War.
The outcome of this 'media' war was a thorough re-evaluation of the entertainment industry and a meditation on the social impact of the widely-accessible dialogue-rich Internet. Various message boards on the World Wide Web encouraged contributors to offer inventive comments and respond to the comments of others regarding political upheaval (e.g., 9/11), cultural change (e.g., Barack Obama), and consumerism shifts (e.g., Wall Street). Reflective new films such as Veronica Guerin, Syriana, Babel, Traffic, and Charlie Wilson's War were imprinting onto the audiences that *everyone* was talking about progressive politics. Cruise and Satan decided to negotiate a peace-treaty and the hyping and release of the treaty-comics film Captain America: Civil War healed hearts pensive about true capitalism-involved conviction.
President Trump made the following remark in the press regarding this 'citizenry-vigilance media war': "I'm as big a fan of the politics-paranoia fantasy-comics film G.I. Joe: Retaliation as anyone!"
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On a college campus in America (a prestigious Ivy League school), teachers of Anthropology and Film Studies were being compelled by changes in world culture to promote Machiavellianism in cinema. From the early days of D.W. Griffith, films were characterized as either being too political or not political enough. The groundbreaking films of Alfred Hitchcock changed way audiences conceived of what was permissible on screen and the rise of pornography and horror genres created a social demand for art that spoke to just about everyone.
On this college campus, a young man who was being groomed to become a Hollywood prodigy was involved in a three-way scandal with a female film studies professor and his career counselor who were helping him pass grades easier so he could play competitive lacrosse for his nationally-ranked college team. The affair leaked into the press, and the young man (named Daniel) was labelled as a modern-day 'Icarus' whose scandalous behaviours drew allusions in the academics-critical press to other peer-pressure related sectors of society such as the use of illegal performance-enhancing steroids by athletes. Daniel hated the attention.
The film and anthropology teachers at Daniel's college were busy writing papers about the need for more movies that were actively reflective of 'real behaviors' of people in the modern world. Meanwhile, the rising American movie star Tom Cruise read of these stories about Daniel and thought about his involvement in the school-sports meditation film All the Right Moves. Cruise started making statements in the press such as, "If we're to praise the pluralism in America that fosters the development of alternative religious organizations such as the Church of Scientology, we must take time to evaluate the peer-pressures in the academic world that give rise to generations of athletes lured into the world of laissez-faire admissions and steroids use."
An idealistic Armenian man and Internet-blogger named Ajay Satan read Cruise's statements and complemented their pseudo-idealism by adding "Addressing the psycho-sociological processes that give rise to a culture of 'pressure-based achievement' helps us address the human needs of those fallen in the trap of profit-driven questionable social decision-making." Cruise read Satan's statements (on the World Discussion Forum) in 2005 and made a pact with him to do some joint-work together. Cruise and Satan consulted with each other over email and worked hand-in-hand, delivering complementary statements about pro-democracy values in the modern media-gauged world.
In 2010, Cruise and Satan had a disagreement and decided to go opposite ways. Satan was not happy with Cruise's insistence that promoting the Church of Scientology was vital for the progress of political culture in the USA. Cruise was unhappy with Satan's 'pseudo-vigilante' approach to politics dialogue. Satan even wrote an anti-establishmentarian essay on the Internet titled, "Water-Pistol Manifesto," in which he criticized the laissez-faire morality behind the marketing of apparent anti-violence themed toys in the modern consumer market. Satan formed his own faction of bloggers called the Idealists, while Cruise steadily and conspicuously promoted Scientology with friends he considered real allies and called the Pragmatists. The Idealists and the Pragmatists engaged in what came to be known as the Consumerism-Media War.
The outcome of this 'media' war was a thorough re-evaluation of the entertainment industry and a meditation on the social impact of the widely-accessible dialogue-rich Internet. Various message boards on the World Wide Web encouraged contributors to offer inventive comments and respond to the comments of others regarding political upheaval (e.g., 9/11), cultural change (e.g., Barack Obama), and consumerism shifts (e.g., Wall Street). Reflective new films such as Veronica Guerin, Syriana, Babel, Traffic, and Charlie Wilson's War were imprinting onto the audiences that *everyone* was talking about progressive politics. Cruise and Satan decided to negotiate a peace-treaty and the hyping and release of the treaty-comics film Captain America: Civil War healed hearts pensive about true capitalism-involved conviction.
President Trump made the following remark in the press regarding this 'citizenry-vigilance media war': "I'm as big a fan of the politics-paranoia fantasy-comics film G.I. Joe: Retaliation as anyone!"
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