Trump's "Golden Age" vs "The Shithole Age of Hollywood"

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What will it take for conservatives to start supporting the arts? What is the missing business infrastructure?

The confluence of

  • Trump’s “The Golden Age Is Upon Us”
  • possibly the worst Academy Awards of all time
  • an abysmal lack of alternatives to what can only be called "The Shithole Age of Hollywood,
  • an artist friend with multiple screenplays ready to go
  • severe financial pressure on his family, including the mother of his 3 young boys
  • the depressing “messaging” out of even Angel Studios as evinced by the end of the “Homestead” pilot

…makes me wonder what The Trump Pirate Ship is waiting for?

At one point I had hopes that the resonance between Howard Hughes and Elon Musk would spawn something like “X Studios” as an alternative to the shithole content spewing forth from Amazon Studios. However, I quite understand that Musk is under far greater pressure than Hughes ever was.

I, also, quite understand that Bezos was far more vulnerable to government anti-trust prosecution than Musk ever was. The government no doubt let him know, without saying so, that Amazon Prime had better be “inclusive” of the shithole Hollywood culture as the price to maintain Amazon’s gargantuan network effect monopoly. But, after all the billions of dollars Bezos poured into hiring shithole Amazon Prime “producers of content” like “Rings of Power” can he really turn that ship around? It may seem like satire to suggest that his purchase of the Bond franchise will result in “A New Bond” like this:

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But just think for a moment how much hate possesses Amazon Prime “producers of content” now that Bezos has committed the unpardonable sin of “capitulating” to a neonazi like Trump! While Bezos could never be as evil as Musk in their eyes, the threat of diverting the huge torrent of monopoly rents enjoyed by Amazon’s main business, away from the shithole culture of Amazon Prime must be absolutely enraging!

See this is the problem with ignoring network effect monopolies:

Even if you think you can stop the government from using them for a while, the incentives will always be to infiltrate organizations like the Mises Institute to prevent any criticism of centralization of positive network externalities. Collectivism needs that sweet sweet economic Fentanyl with which to buy off guys like Bezos and even, truth be told, Musk.

The creativity of individualism is always a threat to collectivism’s insistence on “alignment”.

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Au contraire, mon ami! There are alternatives. The world is full of talented people turning out occasional masterpieces – as well, admittedly, as a lot of tripe that would have a hard time to get financed even in Hollywood.

Goodness! Even Botswana (Botswana!) can turn out a gem like “The Number One Ladies Detective Agency”. The best of the material coming from places like Japan, Korea, China, and Taiwan is very good indeed – although, like everywhere else, the signal-to-noise ratio can be depressing.

None of this helps a North American screenwriter directly, although it may suggest an opportunity for fruitful cooperation with screenwriters in other places/other languages.

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Sydney Pollack (1934-2008) was an executive producer of the BBC’s Botswana movie. The problem, of course, is finding guys like him. Not only are they an increasingly endangered species, they dare not show their true colors except through their association with such content.

It sure would be nice to hire the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency to detect them – if such existed. However, the CIA has more than enough resources to find them and make sure they are cut off from any “threatening” content.

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Video games illustrates that Asia will provide the none woke leftist art. In other words the good stuff.

I think they will do the same with movies.

I am thinking Sony will gain an understanding that they have taken the advice of weirdos soon.

You see in video games western companies like Ubisoft will go bankrupt before changing direction. A Chinese firm already owns a hunk and will buy out the rest at bargain prices.

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It is already happening. Look, for example, at the movie “Midway” about one of the proudest moments in US history, when the US came back from the devastation of Pearl Harbor to defeat the Japanese fleet. A good movie, respectful to all participants in the conflict. But although it is about an American triumph, the movie was brought to the screen only because the Chinese financed it.