We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, March 21, 2019

Captain Marvel: Money, feminism, militarism and previously “independent” filmmakers

Click here to access a review of the latest corporate-produced film by David Walsh, one of the best film reviewers in the world, posted on World Socialist Web Site.

Walsh exposes the latest film offering by a major corporation with US Air Force support for what it is: a widely promoted film to keep you distracted, entertained, and dumbed-down about the real, dire issues facing humans. The film is loaded with the latest identity politics strategy of  our masters in the capitalist ruling class:
Captain Marvel is truly “corporate entertainment”—i.e., the very process by which it came into being prevents it from being entertaining or enlightening in any meaningful fashion.

This type of large-scale, officially sponsored filmmaking, whose success is avidly promoted and tracked by the media and business publications in particular, inevitably intersects and overlaps with other aspects of American establishment culture. In the case of Captain Marvel, this means militarism and feminism specifically.

The US Air Force was involved in the production of Captain Marvel. 
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