“Record Breaking” Adolescence Gets Its Inevitable Reward
Kit Knightly
Adolescence is back to get its pay-off. In an “historic” night for television, the Netflix original drama broke some record for…whatever.
Because of course it did.
Because it was always going to.
For anyone fortunate enough to have missed out on the Adolescence hype, or self-preserving enough to have tactically forgotten it, the show is about a young boy who stabs a girl at school. It has something to do with incels or misogyny or…again, whatever.
It got everywhere faster than is organically possible, was praised as “television perfection” by a very predictable list of outlets, and was lauded for “raising important questions on difficult topics”. It was even the subject of a question in Parliament.
It was absurd.
But it did its job, it helped justify the Online Safety Act, and the shiny new social media ban, and the looming smart phone ban. The artists got their money and their ego boosts and the proud feeling of telling hard truths, even as they doled out sate-approved propaganda that justified authoritarian crackdowns on the internet, past present and future.
And now, of course it has won a lot of awards. A record breaking amount, apparently.
The show was made by the state in order to tell the state what it wants to hear. The rewards for selling out to power – even unknowingly – have always been rich. To encourage the others, if nothing else.
I wrote about all of this last year, and with this final stage in the quid pro quo now completed I thought it fitting we revisit the important truth that the hype around Adolescence reveals even as it deals out its trivial lies.
Why EVERYBODY was talking about Adolescence
Originally published March 20th 2025.
For some reason I woke up this morning to a world – or a pretend media world, at least – obsessed with the Netflix show Adolescence.
I’m not going to link to it or describe the plot, because I’m not being pulled into this trap. I’m not talking about Adolescence, I’m talking about the people talking about it.
That might seem like a paper thin distinction, but it is an important one, in my mind at least.
With thanks to Charlotte
Why is everyone talking about this show? Why am I being flooded with tweets praising the performances and the writing? Or giving me trivia titbits about the production?
Even the people that hate it are talking about, complaining about the race-swapped casting or political messaging.
It’s everywhere.
The front page of the Guardian this morning:
Since when does “what’s trending on Netflix” have any impact on the political landscape? What’s happening?
There was even a question about it during Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday:
🚨 NEW: A Labour MP brings up the Netflix series “Adolescence” and asks Keir Starmer if he will support the creators calls to show it in schools to counter “toxic misogyny early”
Starmer: “Yes, and at home we are watching Adolescence with our children… it’s very good” #PMQs pic.twitter.com/YNHaUrmqVT
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) March 19, 2025
That’s an MP, apparently, asking the supposed leader of the nation if the latest hit Netflix production should be compulsory viewing in schools.
She mentions misogyny as well, but honestly that’s immaterial. The existence of the question is bizarre enough on the meta level that we can disregard the specifics of the politics.
She asked – and he answered. Not just to say “what an odd thing to say in national parliament, go away and never talk to me again”, but actually giving it credence.
“That’s a very good question madame, maybe we should force school children to consume Netflix’s fine content. I’m watching the show myself and must say it’s jolly good!”
I’m barely satirizing.
Notice how the he not only takes the question seriously, but makes sure to note he is watching and enjoying the show.
This is quite literally product placement.
It’s no different from when the camera lingers on a Mercedes logo in a movie. It couldn’t be less subtle if Starmer had cracked open a Pepsi, taken a sip in slow motion, licked his lips and said “I always drink Pepsi when I’m working hard to serve the country”, then winked at the camera.
It’s a really good demonstration of the way the system works. And I do mean THE system – there is only one. Politics, advertising, entertainment, the military and everything else…they’re all joined together. Departments of the same company. Fingers on a giant corporate hand.
And, like all good hands, it can multitask.
It can promote media slop for profit WHILE it sells politics that serve an agenda.
What is that agenda? Protecting the children!
From what? Knife crime. Or misogyny. Or hate speech. Or immigrants.
Pick your preferred problem, react however you want, the solution remains the same – more control.
Censor the internet, ban smartphones in schools, forbid the sale of knives online, crack down on hate speech. Tag X people for Y reason. Create a registry, they LOVE creating registries.
You know how this goes.
Knife crime isn’t the problem guys. We don’t need special rules for selling knives to teenagers or brown people or anyone who looks a bit weird. We don’t need a special registry for everyone with a knifeblock or who googles whetstones.
The internet isn’t the problem. We don’t need rules about who can access what or where or banning anonymity or controlling “hate speech”.
Misogyny isn’t the problem. We don’t need special educational classes for young men to teach them how awful they are or to put testosterone blockers in school water fountains to prevent violence or another registry for everyone who follows Andrew Tate on Twitter.
We don’t need any new rules at all. We have plenty of rules (such as the Online Safety Act, which came into force two days ago just as the Adolescence hype launched).
The problem with our society is not a lack of rules. The problem is powerful people creating fake problems to scare real people.
The problem is politicians indistinguishable from advertisers and entertainment companies indistinguishable from military contractors and newspapers indistinguishable from intelligence agencies.
The problem is the monolithic nature of global corporate government that uses authoritarianism to boost profits and uses profits to increase its authority in a cycle of exponentially increasing tyranny.
The problem is that hand we were talking about earlier, and the way everything everywhere becomes an excuse for it to tighten its grip around our neck.
That’s the problem.
…and that’s the reason everyone is talking about Adolescence.
How “Adolescence” offers us a peek inside the machine.
Originally published April 1st 2025
I wrote about Adolescence – or rather the (manufactured) hype surrounding it – last week. I thought at the time I’d said all that needed to be said. It is just some Netflix show, after all.
But then the hype keeps going, and the messaging piles up, and you realize it’s actually a really neat case study in The Way Things Work.
As a quick catch-up for the fortunate few yet to have Adolescence forcibly crammed in front of their eyes, the show is about a boy who stabs a girl at school. It’s said to raise “important questions” about misogyny and toxic masculinity and “the knife crime epidemic” and social media and blah blah blah blah blah.
Who cares. I haven’t watched it. It doesn’t matter. Like I said, it’s a case study.
The show was released three weeks ago…then it was everywhere. And I mean everywhere. It was reviewed and praised and praised and reviewed.
And everyone in those everywhere places called it “important” or “vital” or claimed it “asked big questions”.
You all know what those phrases mean.
Suddenly, the creators were on Newsnight on the BBC, Good Morning Britain on ITV, and even CNN.
And what were they talking about?
Politics, obviously. Knife crime and social media and online radicalisation and yet more blah blah blah.
The writer essentially said the same thing all the time, begging the government to “consider quite serious change”.
Before the week was over – as we covered before – an MP was asking if it should be required viewing in schools.
Sky News claimed that “pressure was mounting” for a social media ban. They don’t say from whom, and it doesn’t matter. It’s all a narrative, no more real than the show itself.
Netflix have since said they will provide it for free to schools to show to young boys:
This all culminated in yesterday’s meeting, where the creators of the show – along with representatives from a “healthy relationship” charity Tender – were invited to Number 10 to talk about “the influence of toxic material online” and the “serious change” they think the government needs to take.
Sir Keir Starmer (or the intern running his account) pledged to “tackle” the “challenges raised by adolescence” in a tweet…
The challenges raised by Adolescence aren’t something we can simply legislate for — if I could pull a lever to solve it, I would.
It’s only by listening and learning from the experiences of young people and charities that we can tackle this.
That’s what I’ve been doing today. pic.twitter.com/bU5ocwpa1T
— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) March 31, 2025
We’re mere inches away from actual legislation based almost entirely on the made-up events of a fictional TV show.
People are rightly pointing this out as ludicrous – and it is – but that’s seeing it backwards. We’re not getting laws passed because of TV shows, we’re getting TV shows made so they can pass laws.
The studio behind Adolescence gets government funding, as does Tender, the charity that was also invited to that absurd meeting.
Netflix’s finances have been a source of speculation for years, but its political associations, alongside a track record of producing content that perfectly fits a mainstream agenda, really speaks for itself.
Government, charities, corporate media. It’s all one organism.
Does that mean the show itself was cynically produced to fill a need and sell an agenda?
Absolutely certainly yes.
But that’s not to say the actors and writers and celebrity spokespeople don’t genuinely believe in the supposed message. Just that, to paraphrase Noam Chomsky, if they didn’t believe it they would never be where they are.
They’re working for a distributor with massive and obvious ties to the Deep State, making a project for a studio that gets government funding, working alongside a charity that also gets government funding all so they can tell the government to take the kind of “drastic action” they’ve been planning to take the whole time.
They might believe they are speaking truth to power. In reality, their sincere-but-shallow ego-driven virtue signaling is being manipulated so they will tell power exactly what it wants to hear.
It’s like wheels thinking they move the car against its will, when anyone watching the machinery from the outside can plainly the whole point of the car is turning the wheels to make itself move.
This kind of compartmentalization is how the machinery works, and it’s why it’s largely pointless to ever attack actors or celebrities as Deep State assets. Most of them probably are, but the vast majority don’t know that they are, and the people either willing or able to make that realization were weeded out a long time before they got famous.
And now comes the win-win-win of it all.
The cast and crew get fame and acclaim. The studio get profit and kudos. The government get their new law.
And that’s that.
The hype around Adolescence is not new or even especially exceptional, but it is so transparent it offers a useful insight. Like an underwater aquarium, one of those glass-sided ant farms or those cadavers that have wax pumped into their veins.
It let’s us see inside a little deeper than usual, and show’s us how the machinery works.
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Back to present day.
I’d like to end by asking a simple question: How much of a genuine cultural footprint has Adolescence left behind?
Compare it in your mind to other super viral TV, like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones.
Put aside the reviews and awards, in the past 14 months has anyone brought it up with you in conversation? Have you even thought about it?
I wrote 3000 words about it, and I genuinely forgot it existed.
There’s a message in that, I think. People can tell real from fake. Even if they don’t know they know, they DO know.
I still haven’t seen it.
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Objectively, from GenZ onwards , cognitively, we have created a
WHOLE FUNKIN’ GENERATION of adolescents who are performing cognitively
Worse , than this 64 year old, due to E D U C A T I O N. Ask any Neurologist 😂
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So the pompously dressed English king, adorned in jewels and a crown and sitting on a golden throne has decreed that his government WILL go ahead and introduce Digital ID’s for everyone.
Whatever it takes to obliterate white males as the cohort that is / used to be the most likely to self-organize and oppose the global kleptocracy by Epstein elites.
To be fair, just about every long-running TV show has gone through the same process. I used to watch ITV’s ‘Vera’: The first few seasons were deep, gritty, and believable. But soon enough, white male characters including detectives universally started to be portrayed as “controlling nutjobs” and a general waste of space. Whereas young lil’ female things would ALWAYS be five steps ahead of the game/procedure (“I’ve already done it!”). And young black females? Awww… Geniuses and superheroes, obviously, to the point of making the ultimate sacrifice in the course of an investigation and receiving a posthumous award “for bravery.”
Dick-kickingly blatant propaganda, everywhere you look these days.
Why does everybody say “slop” all of a sudden? When it first came up, I thought it was just used to criticize how sloppy AI replies are. But then a friend I was having dinner with used it, in a non-AI context. And now here it is in this article. How do these godawful buzzwords get around so quickly? I guess it’s just the wonder of the intranets.
So here’s a suggestion. You may write an exactly right article (not a “spot-on” article, either, because “spot-on” is just “slop.”). But don’t use the word “slop” anyhow. Unless you’re talking about spilling spaghetti sauce on your bib.
“Slop” is a noun referring to soft mud, unappetizing liquid food, or food waste/swill fed to animals. In modern digital usage, it describes low-quality, AI-generated content produced in large quantities (2025 Merriam-Webster Word of the Year). It also refers to spilled liquid or wastewater.”
Basically, it’s what hogs wallow in, or what is fed to hogs, in the latter case, to fatten them for slaughter.
A lot here is longstanding (which doesn’t mean to be taken for granted), like institutional fusion (media, military, medicine, and more) of the corporate state to oversee creeping fascism, and product placement beyond movies in our lives (most of which may be conducted as underground advertising).
More recently, the fusion has been completed for techno-totalitarian final solutions, to be coordinated by the directors of stage sets across society and world where we ourselves are nothing more than products of social engineering.
Operation Warp Speed launched the current acceleration of closing the door on a planet prison. From now on we’re all adolescents under the care of Big Brother.
That’s an understatement!
Like Goldilocks, we want just the right rules and just the right number of rules. But if you must err, err on the side of having too few rules.
With too few rules, people are left largely to their own devices, just as they were throughout history until the era of written language. Is this such a bad thing? But with too many rules (e.g., everyone must wear masks!), you drive people up the wall and trample over freedoms.
I am tempted here to emphasize the beginning with only one rule, to keep away from the bad tree.
Next we got the 10 Commandments.
The Ecclesiastes says if we fear God and keep these only 10 rules then we can enjoy life and be sure to have our Leaders accept. It is really that simple.
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But nobody wanted to follow these rules anyway, so today we have 1 million rules of everything and are still not able to function together.
A load of bollocks. I watched it just to see if it was a predictable as I expected. It was.
What the media and politicians almost never say is that men are more often the victims of violent crime in the UK than women. That’s a fact but it also doesn’t take a genius to surmise that cultural norms also deter men from reporting more minor incidents.
Watched ten mins of it – turned it off. It’s wokist shit and a bit sick too. Haven’t met anyone who watched it and liked it.
You’re not supposed to like it; you’re supposed to take moral instruction from it.
I’d never heard of it, but while I don’t disagree with your overall message, I also feel – ‘but that’s how it all works’.
I grow ever more sensitised to corrupted or weaponised/marketised language – for such is my sense of the ‘forbidden fruit’ by which two or more agree to seek power over life by framing power in a contract of self-illusion that once accepted as true, will defend the lie of a life against truth thus rendered fearful, heretical or unthinkable and thus unrecognisable.
This ‘power’ is of a mind by which we can forget who and what we Are, by mutually reinforcing struggles framed by what we are not.
IE: we are not power or powers set over and apart from the life and truth of which we can only separate from in concept.
A shop near me is called – Concept; carpets, curtains and blinds.
What is an apocalypse but a revealing?
But the idea of an apocalypse can and has mutated to serve the blind.
I cant stomach much of Western Media outputs lately. If I want to ‘escape’ to a story of cast out personae, I like those that do NOT tell me what to think or feel – excepting that symbols will trigger responses but I can agree to ‘take the ride’ of my own resonances and reflections. The Shakespearian mirror to our human condition offers synchonicity of resonant connections – such that models and maps of ‘reality’ are really derivatives of mythic projection or creation – excepting that the shaping of the mind to its experience is not true creation. Love is not ‘special’ for a chosen few or to a ‘chosen one’.
Yet the releasing of self-specialness opens a welcome for the love or the wholeness and holiness that a partiality discarded, agreed to turn a blind eye to or denied – because “CANT YOU SEE—I”M BUSY!”
I resonate with a discernment of the Christ Story – by its resonance to qualities of being that realign a ‘quantified’ world of waits and measures, as terms and conditions of engagement or exchange.
Let the dead bury the dead can as well apply to those who choose – willingly or by unconscious wish running default – to ‘take the ride’ of a narrative-led identity.
They have their reward or result – according to what they currently sow
Siding with the living includes any whose eyes flutter while stirring in their sleep, as it includes all who share in love’s awareness – and thus no one is excluded but by their own freedom to persist in an experience of self-will.
I felt a prompt to write on the use of the word power for the usurp and corruption of power.
Power in life is not power set over and apart from life, yet can their be a conflict between what Is – and what never truly was? I can experience a conflicted sense of wanting both, but never at the same instant, for each is mutually exclusive and thus not a true polarity of complementary interaction and exchange.
The ‘deceiver’ or power-in-the-world must tempt, taunt or provoke and threaten the faith aligning in power-of-life. Nothing it says is true but seeks to engage and frame attention in a lie given power by ‘sharing’. Even here the usurp runs reversal for only love can share and be shared. While joining in (the frame of) judgement shares as a means to separate – for each seeks a private gain masking as a common purpose.
That’s how it works.
The critical factor is whether we know we are choosing self-illusion as an expression of freedom to think, feel, imagine and experience, or whether we are possessed by what we thought to grasp, wield or keep as a special sense of self – to which others must play the shifting roles assigned them. (As judged).
That the ‘world-ego’ runs a forgetting and deny ‘function’ is its signature characteristic in all that is framed in its bounds. But it masks as a goal to progressively accomplish – if you simply agree to contract by engaging in its terms.
That it operates an an ‘intel inside’ that hacks and hijacks our own thinking is easy to observe by watching the thought and feelings or ‘meanings’ that trigger reactions that reinforce and confirm the thinking.
“The show was made by the state in order to tell the state what it wants to hear”.
I recall once hearing; “It’s not conditions that matter; it’s state of being that matters”.
The ego uses terms and condition as basis for engagement or transaction. ‘Love’ is strictly conditional, or the face could not be maintained.Thus when the ego is undone – as is the case in any instant where truth finds recognition, it seeks to regain ‘control’ as soon as possible by whatever means available.
Growing willingness for truth will not be served by focusing attack on evils. But if we would uncover the root of evil, we can look on the masking of mind that shows itself in the ‘evils of the day thereof’. What we can see, we can own, and what we own is within the sphere of our own decision. I don’t have to get rid of hate that I recognise as venting of a deeper pain – that I can now attend within the living – rather than seek to kill it asap by whatever means available.
I think that’s the point – that everything is like that
It’s the usual PTB agenda – create a problem that doesn’t exist – wait for a reaction from the public, (in a favourable way) – then present the solution to the public (Problem Reaction Solution).
Of course as you rightly point out, many folk actually believe there is a problem to start with, and are easily co-opted into pushing the PTB’s plan, which appears to be on this occasion censorship and registration block first, if that doesn’t happen monitor if possible.
As for your question, I’d say none, Adolescence is/was a tool to used to an end, and when that end is achieved – the programme won’t matter anymore.
Nato has hooked with many tv production/movie production firms – and their people, so we can expect far more of this kind of thing in the future.
Misogyny and violence towards women has existed well before the advent of social media; some might argue, to a far greater extent.
I’ve not seen the program… was the boy punished for his misogyny by enforced gender reassignment?
Art mimics Life ?
Fully agree with the Author, but what to do about this kind of brainwashing? It takes too long time to get people onboard against it.
I see it as the old Leftist psycho tools done since 1968 or as ideological subversion techniques. “All men are violent”, “If only women were in power there would be peace on earth”, “Gay is cool”, “Free abortion is a human right”.
To change the perception of reality. Demoralisation 20 years of changing one generation’s perception.
https://yandex.ru/video/preview/16836169477367640385 Ideological subversion explained.
Yuri Bezmenov in 1983 told the whole story in 1983 but nothing happened. Absolutely nothing penetrated the stupified western societies.
https://ericleeworldloop.medium.com/what-that-ex-kgb-agent-was-saying-8301b22a9d22 .
So thats why I am asking how do we protect ourselves against brainwashed people who cant see nor feel what is upside down nor have any moral compass because of indoctrination? The article is a typical description of the said!
Mr Knightly
There are already schools in London which have explicit policies to ban mobile phones in school. I was reading about a Waldorf School in Islington and all phones are handed in before school starts, handed out before going home.
Maybe ask the parents if they see benefits from it.
Waldorf Schools are the polar opposite to reading, ritin n rifmatic.
Maybe you don’t need digital IDs, you just need to take phones off children?
Come on mate, haven’t we learned yet that there’s no such thing as good dictatorships? Once you start forcing people to do or not do things that are none of your damn business you are one of the baddies. We need laws to stop murder and mayhem, but that’s about it.
Shallow:-ssSh-Allow ? I-phone17+classroom interruption, coz’ itsa’ great funkin’ device & i.o.s.A.i. HELPS the teacher focus on your specific Train of Thought 💭?
GenZ are already cognitively deficient in various Neurological Depts. Do Amplify.
Waldorf Philosophy at base level is not supportive of screens for children, whether that be a phone, a TV, a laptop etc. It is, however, very much supportive of readin’, writin’, rifmatic.
Curiously, many of the Silicon Valley poobahs kept their own children away from such tech. This is from this year, but the trend goes way back.
https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-jobs-steve-chen-tech-billionaires-publicly-shielding-their-children-from-tech-products-social-media/
Some schools use biometric data such as fingerprints and facial recognition to identify students.
Frenetic AI videos that algorithms channel unhinge very young children barely able to hold a phone, or whose parents have routed such videos to TV. Social media unhinges children a little older. These are prevalent global problem.The solutions include less exploitation in wages, so one parent, grandparent or other guardian can oversee the children physically.
Latest fantasy from the ipaper, following on from “my pension is too big” and “I wish my son could do national service”:
The real reason for the growth in home schooling? It’s “mental health”! Not a rejection of the brainwashing nor the way children were treated during lockdown then. The likelihood that some parents may say “mental health” because it’ll bring less pushback escapes them. “Mental health” brings victimhood and sympathy; open defiance brings “crazy conspiracy theorist” or “religious nut”, potentially followed by questions about fitness to be a parent.
It’s not difficult to see where this is meant to go in the long-term. School is too dangerous to “mental health”? Big Tech has a package of Zoom classes ready for Virtual Learning, very (un)reasonably priced….
School is 80% about social interactions, very little about ‘classes’.
If techies think they can ‘recreate social interactions’ virtually, they are off with the fairies. You can’t kiss a boy/girl if you’re 5 miles away…..you can’t give moral/social support by simply holding someone hand in a tough situation. If techies haven’t learned that touch has visceral effects on mental states, they aren’t fit to engage with government.
The techies lives themselves in a virtual world and think a marriage with a robot is fantastic. So to expect anything logo from them is absurd is my opinion.
The motive behind virtual/augmented reality is to deny what you say. Contrary to government propaganda, some people are already hermits by choice or necessity, and some die alone; a stink may alert neighbours after days.
Actually my bet is they are going to ban home schooling as part of the war on families. They want kids in school getting institutionalized and brain washed as soon as they’re out of nappies.
I had never even heard of Adolescence until reading this. I have two daughters, one 13 and one 18. The youngest has never heard of it either and the oldest has seen some promos for it but has no desire to watch it. She has a friend who says it’s lame.
Doesn’t surprise me. The media can now set up some “brilliant and relevant” drama series and then trumpet it to the roof as the “most watched show of all time” even if nobody watched it.
Keep it that way.
The banks run everything.
The system of “lending” money (which doesn’t exist) and charging interest is inflationary, which means they (bankers) need ever more ways to make things cost more, else there wouldn’t be the money to pay back.
That’s why there are so many regulations and why they (bankers) want control.. because when it all falls over they want to escape, which they can only do if everyone else can’t do anything about it.
Off topic but the Graud has just put out a huge article on the return of fascism. With the expression “far Right” turning up on just about every second line, we read about the disaffection of the masses and things like the Christian fundamentalist rejection of gender ideology. Surprisingly they don’t mention “antisemitism” or “covid conspiracies” but it’s only a matter of time.
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Amazing, isn’t it, that democratic elections, the very antithesis of over boys marching on the streets to beat up some group they’re blaming for their ills, are called ‘the return of fascism’ because luvvies in Labour and Conservative lost their seats.
Democracy is about saying ‘NO GOOD! Good morning…’, rather than bombing Iran to a pulp…
I’m watching the show myself and must say it’s jolly good!
He has’t finished watching but cannot wait to spread the good news.
Pepsi
When you take your next “soft drink”, use your “smart” phone to look up research on the synthetic sweeteners, colours, extra phosphorus, caffeine, etc.
I do watch films online, but haven’t had a functional television since the switch from analog to digital. And whenever I’m in a lounge or someplace with a TV on, I’m reminded that I’m not missing out on much.
Same here. Funny how a lot of habits and things suddenly disappeared and felt of not missing it.
I am now waiting for the ability to put this LapTop I am writing on in the garbage can, and back to real air again.
If you are going to watch movies buy hard copies DVD’s – don’t pay to stream them for you’ll never really own them, a flick of a switch and all your online movies could be gone, never ever use a iCloud, or other type of Cloud, you may think no one else has access to it – but you’d be very wrong.
Bitrot eats up your DVDs in a few years.
Simple just replace them if that’s the case.
As long as Hollowood and its ilk continues to churn out glorified violence, plastic love stories and cardboard cutout comedy, impressionable Folks will remain desensitized to reality.
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As of late 2025, over 130 armed conflicts are active, twice as many as 15 years ago, with 2023 recording a post-WWII high of 59 state-based conflicts in 34 countries. Major conflicts include the Russia-Ukraine war, Israel conflict, Sudan civil war, and Myanmar civil war,
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Films can function as propaganda, shaping public opinion and potentially influencing support for conflicts by creating a “lustful depiction of violence” or fostering patriotic fervor.
Stop watching the films then maybe the wars will stop.
Oppenheimer was one of the most boring films I’ve ever made myself sit through to the end. I still don’t know why I bothered. I guess I kept hoping it would get more interesting. It never did; and in the end it wasn’t a patch on the two-season miniseries, MANH(A)TTAN.
Manhattan was stupid too. There, were, however, some naked girls to save the day.
Why the extensive promo for a film from several years ago of very limited interest?
He’s training his algorithm
The Pentagon even has a entertainment policy – and movie, tv show makers MUST comply with it – one nail on is, US military personnel are almost always cast as noble protagonists, whilst non US peoples are more often than not – classed as enemies of America and are stereotyped.
Mirrlees-Militarization-of-Movies-and-TV.pdf
Almost every one of those conflicts is underwritten by Israel through it’s management the US. Without Israel, we would live in peace.
This I promised myself , after watching WTC7 collapse Live.. . Analysing detail, sofort,
All night long… & since Lifelong.
In the early hours of the next morning, we drove together, 15km to collect a Microsoft programmed Texas Instruments device, that had never been updated or online, since purchase in Hong Kong 1995, living offline in Switzerland to purpose. We returned to compare different De-Vices , of over half a decade later, with the ‘newest, latest’ best Microsoft programming of ‘Fonts’ x Times Roman Numerals & Right Clicked 9/11 🕚
Remarkably, both De-Vices revealed the ‘Bomb’ + ‘Skull & Cross Bones’ insignia of…
PIRACY. Alles nur geklaut… Elon-Gated, Nikola Tesla & Vincent Atanasov Technology
S E C R E T E D by pirates…of The Corporation, Not just The Caribbean… all
industrial business machines.
Oh, yeah & I stopped accepting U.S.$Dollars$ in payment , too, until I see Hollywood fake a movie over the contents of WTC7, then , I will become a $Millionaire just for giggles 🤭 connecting Al to all the compartmentalisation & programming OverSteering PIRACY 😂
Get my drift ? Bob-a-Job.Ops. !?
I KNEW there was a reason I threw the TV in the trash. If there’s a way to watch Netflix online, don’t tell me. yuk.
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70% of US farmers can’t plant all their crops this year– fertilizer’s too scarce & expensive. That’s depressing enough. US is selling down the Strategic Oil Reserve. Tell me THAT’s not depressing.
And, of course, we ceased having a grain reserve decades back.
“70% of US farmers can’t plant all their crops this year”
With respect, I seriously doubt that this figure is true. I think it might be more fear porn.
As for Netflix, it has always been an online platform. It’s right there in the name: NETflix. 🙂
But don’t waste your time with it. Perhaps there is some watchable content on it, but much of it is plain garbage.
Penelope does like her fear porn – no offence, Pen
Chris/Bernard.
Maybe not – says Forbes.
70% Of Farmers Can’t Afford To Grow All Of Their Crops
Grain reserves mean government interference or Communism. Let us put our trust in the Free Market of covert planning by the benevolent Job Creators, and in trickle-down economics.
They could easily use crop rotation and strip farming. Heaven forfend they use simple low-tech savvy. Alfalfa is better fertilizer than oil anyway. At any rate, what they’ll use to replace it is sewage sludge. They already use it where I live. If you ain’t seen it yet, you will.
Oh, the irony: this morning I saw a news item about Texas suing Netflix for spying on children!
Texas accuses Netflix of ‘spying’ on children and designing ‘addictive’ features in new suit
“Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a sweeping lawsuit Monday against Netflix, accusing the Hollywood streaming giant of “spying on” people in his state, including children, and collecting user data without consent.
[…]”Paxton’s lawsuit alleged that Netflix built “surveillance machinery” that tracks and logs users’ viewing habits, preferences, devices, household networks, application usage and “other sensitive behavioral data” via adult and kid profiles alike.
“Netflix may have once portrayed itself as a “kid-friendly and ad-free Big Tech alternative,” the suit said. “But behind the scenes,” the filing goes on to say, “Netflix quietly built a behavioral-surveillance program of staggering scale.”
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As for the show ‘Adolescence’, I was completely repelled by the very premise of the show — who on earth would want to watch a misogynist teenage boy acting out?! — and didn’t watch it. At least for me, the creators completely missed their mark.
But maybe I was never meant to be their mark in the first place.
BTW, I gave up on Netflix years ago. Its shows were just too dark and depressing. The very opposite of entertaining.
You mean like how every Internet connected service tracks you and serves you what they think can sell?
That’s been around for decades and Paxton only now is bitching about it?
Dumbasses
Off Guardian is an internet connected service…
It’s like the “anti-Semitic” alarm. They keep rubbing your face in taboos hoping you will stop thinking.
On the other hand, Adolescence at least didn’t have a fucking transgender character.
And I take it as a small victory that the appalling Baby Reindeer was nowhere to be seen.
“Coming this Autumn: “Adolescence 2 + Infinity.”
And beyond.
I’m afraid I did watch the fucking thing. Not my choice. I was outvoted and it was teatime. From what I recall there was one really clever thing – each episode was done in a single take. And there’s even one great – or at least fitting – line. There are two investigators who’ve been posted to school and one says, “This brings it all back. That smell of cabbage, sweat and masturbation”.
Everything else sucks. The very opening explodes with some US style military swoop in on a suburban house. You’d think they were assaulting some kind of mafia hideout. The ending has Stephen Graham sobbing for what seems like half an hour. It’s a scene that oozes Prestige Acting.
But the whole ridiculous carnival of The General Reception was scripted in advance. What really strikes me is that the UK – and the West in general – is coming more and more to resemble the Cold War depictions of Stalinist Russia. The public are irrelevant. The media will supply the requisite response.
It’s a super hyped up show just like we always had.
In the past the shows were more convincing because people were less aware.
Think why quiet quitting didn’t happen in the past.
Humanity evolved.
We didn’t get higher IQ which is a logic benchmark but we did get more aware of the big picture.
https://robc137.substack.com/p/left-brain-vs-whole-brain-in-battlestar