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WOODEN_CORE

                                                          October 10, 2016

I sneer and roll my eyes (and exaggerate)
at the spectacle of kids who have totally
internalized Hollywood culture, who feel
that there's something critically
significant about every little cynical,
compromised money-grubbing move made
by the industry...

This entire phenomena of millennial
kids babbling into video cameras and       I mean, self-indulgent,
posting the result online seems            self-important lecturing
pretty peculiar to me, I have to           that no one is really going
say.  Is there some reason you don't       to care about?  What are
just want to write it down?  Written       they doing on my lawn?
text is a lot friendlier to the
audience: it's much easier to search
or skim.
                                               
But maybe it's significant that they want to do        
videos about Hollywood.  It's as though         
they're trying to write themselves into the scene;     
they want to be players in that world, so they act     
like they're in that world, and not at the bottom      
and off to the side of a deep, wide hierarchy in       
which they matter little.                              
                                                       
   "You've got to listen to the fans!"            

   You know, the industry presumably
   makes some effort to pay attention
   to box office, so almost by                                         
   definition they're obsessed with       For one thing, it could be that      
   popularity, and if they're             you're not really representative     
   choosing to ignore The Fans, it        of the audience.  Who appointed      
   could be because they've got good      you spokesman for The Fans?          
   reason.                                                                     
                                                                               
   Or it could be that the industry doesn't have any                          
   good reasons, and none of them know what they're                       
   doing, and they live their lives in a state of       
   barely concealed panic, desperately trying to        
   convince everyone that they really know what         
   they're doing, when the nature of the business 
   is that they can't possibly know.                       
                                                        
       And following the moves of these people,    
       obsessing over every single marketing       
       decision like it's an affront to your       
       personal religion...                        
                                                   
       What sense does this make?                 


             Just make your own damn
             culture already.

             Find something to care
             about that cares about you.




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