coreydesir(.eth/.tez)

Yooooh!! She is right. The consequences of an impoverished education do not end in the classroom. They follow people into their politics, their culture and even their understanding of themselves. Bruh. Ask any comedian, musician or screenwriter how often they are told to simplify their work. Make it easier. Make it familiar. Above all, do not demand too much of the audience. There is something deeply revealing about a society in which the capacity to think is treated as an inconvenience. An audience accustomed to intellectual passivity becomes easier to entertain through recognition than discovery. Give people something that affirms their identity, flatters their prejudices or confirms their grievances. THEY WILL MISTAKE THE PLEASURE OF AGREEMENT FOR THE EXPERIENCE OF UNDERSTANDING. People only think it's propaganda if it does not affirm what they already believe. This applies no matter what part of the political spectrum they are. It's not just the industry though. Even the audience participates in it. We demand originality while remaining suspicious of anything that unsettles our convictions. The danger is, a population that grows accustomed to having its beliefs constantly affirmed may gradually lose the habit of examining them. The same person who cannot tolerate an uncomfortable idea in a film may struggle to tolerate one in public life. It's not that people have lost the capacity to think. It is that we are building a culture in which they are increasingly encouraged not to exercise it. Anyway... if you have read this far, congratulations! In an age when your attention is constantly being bought, interrupted and redirected, the ability to give an argument the time it deserves is a small but meaningful act of intellectual independence.