The Matrix of the New Hollywood

The topic of the Oscars debacle was, not surprisingly, fodder for at least a second day of long discussions on Youtube streams among the usual suspects. Gary was on Az's channel with a couple other guests, including the females, both saucy and quiet helper types, and together that had grand time hashing the lingering comedy and pathos of the incident. 

It matters that it was on Az's channel, not Gary's, as Az will get the "superchat" donations that viewers pay for, to have their comments read aloud--if not in this stream then in a "superchat square up" stream several days later. I've done my share of contribution that way, at least back when their channels were small enough that I would actually get the comment read during the stream and not bumped to later (what's the fun of that?). It's much harder now that they have gotten so popular.

One of the topics that came up today in regard to the Oscars incident was a conversation that almost word-for-word what I had been saying with Ginger the night before, which a musing over the matrix of alternate combinations of sexes and races of the same type of incident, and what outcome they would have produced. Everyone agrees that Black Man on Black Man was the worst popular one for Hollywood, and the one giving everyone else the most pleasure in seeing them squirm over it.

Had the violence been Black Man on White Man, then the audience would have cheered and carried the Black Man around on their shoulders. Had it been White Man on Black Man, then today we would be in the midst of martial law, with Armageddon raging. Had it been White Man on White Man, then the attacker would have been ejected and arrested, and everyone on social media would be saying that White Men should be banned from the Oscars altogether.

Everything I just said is absolutely one-percent undoubtable. Even liberals would have to agree with what I said, but at this point some of them still thing what I described is the necessary good situation that we have to live in, for a season or two of history, until things get squared off social-justice-wise. Things were so unfair in the past that they have to be unfair in the other direction for a while. In other words, the only disagreement is whether there is anything wrong with what I described, or if it is, in fact, fair in its own way.

For true Marxists, it doesn't even matter that it need be "fair." The idea of balancing history through a social justice reverse discriminatory era is just an excuse to offer tender-hearted liberals in order to sign up with the program of tearing down everything that exists in order to rebuild it according to their will.

Of course,  you can throw sex swapping into the matrix I described, and other gender combinations, and you have other results. It's a fun parlor game.Very 2022.  Who says the Oscars aren't still entertainment.

Among the things that folks agreed upon during the stream today was that it would be almost impossible for the incident to have been staged, as Hollywood is simply incapable of providing this level of entertainment these days.