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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:58 PM</DIV>
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<P>I do think, though, that the culture and society in the US is much worse than
in other countries - due to the lack of an existing working class party or the
tradition of ever having had one of any significance - or any other kind of
movement to create a society based on solidarity. It is still the "Wild Wild
West" here in the US and everybody is out for himself, and by himself - alone
and isolated, desperate and poor "because you made poor desicisons" (This is how
everybody is portrayed in the US - In Europe we have a "tradition" to blame the
destiny of poor people on a "bad system" or society if you fail - in the US it's
just your own fault...)<BR><BR>Coming from Europe (Germany) I have never seen so
many homeless people in a rich country like this. I have never seen such a
brutal sport like American Football, I have never seen so many people dying
because they don't have healthcare in a rich country like this, I have hardly
ever seen so many soldiers invading other countries and I have never seen such a
little amount of people complaining about what's going on.<BR><BR>Now, a
"little" movement like Occupy is developing and what does Hollywood do? They put
out this horrible Batman movie which is totally discredating the movement and
any kind of revolutionary movement in general.<BR><BR>This was the worst movie I
have ever seen in my whole life. There is no plot, no nice characters, no
intelligent dialogues and hardly any compassion - just violence (and
stupid action).<BR><BR>It is also very confusing - or must be for a lot of
people - because in some ways it is a little bit critical of the police and the
corrupt corporations, maybe even capitalism. But then they show the uprising
oppressed people as this horrible mob which make everybody want to save the
society we live in... How much worse can it get?<BR><BR>This movie - if it has
any message at all - just has one message: There is no alternative to
barbarism...!<BR> (You'll get it either
way!)<BR><BR>Comradely,<BR>Sonja<BR><BR>
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<U></U>Aurora<U></U> & <U></U>Hollywood<U></U>'s war on
<U></U><U></U>America<U></U><U></U>'s youth</SPAN></FONT><SPAN
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<P><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Comrades,<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">More than LIBOR or the struggle of Spanish workers or
the possibility of war with Iran, the shooting of 70 movie viewers in Aurora,
Colorado is dominating the news and, therefore, is gripping people's minds
here. As Marxists, we tend to focus on the former type of developments and
often don't pay enough attention to the "cultural" issues. Sonja and I went to
see "The Dark Knight Rises" yesterday. I have to say, if I've ever made any
sacrifices for the revolution, none were as great as sitting through that
horrible film. Here is my review of it:<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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align=center><U></U><U></U><B><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Hollywood</SPAN></FONT></B><U></U><U></U><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">’s War on American
Youth:</SPAN></B><U></U><U></U></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“Dark
Knight”, <U></U>Aurora<U></U>, <U></U>Colorado<U></U>, and
<U></U><U></U>America<U></U><U></U>’s Culture of
Violence</SPAN></FONT></B><U></U><U></U></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">by</SPAN></FONT></B><U></U><U></U></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" class=MsoNormal align=center><B><FONT size=3
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">John
Reimann</SPAN></FONT></B><U></U><U></U></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
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A film that set a record $160 million in earnings in its first week in US
theaters cannot be ignored. Especially when a gunman interrupted it in
<U></U><U></U>Aurora<U></U>, <U></U>Colorado<U></U><U></U>, shooting 70 people
and killing twelve. <U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
But “The Dark Knight Rises” is nothing but crude Corporate America propaganda,
and its success is the result of media propaganda plus the longer term affects
of Corporate America’s propaganda war on American youth. In fact, this
film exemplifies this propaganda war on several levels, one of which is
absolutely blatant. <U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">“Blood will be
spilled”</SPAN></B><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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Consider some of the dialog:<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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The “plot” (if it can be called that) of the film involves a bloody mob taking
over the city of “Gotham”, which symbolizes
<U></U><U></U>America<U></U><U></U>. The leader of this mob proclaims to one
of the super rich: “You think this can last. There is a storm coming, Mr.
Wayne. You’re going to wonder how you and your friends can live life so
large and leave so little for the rest of us.” At another point they raid the
stock exchange. One of the heads of the exchange asks why they have taken it
over. “There is no money here to rob,” he says. “Then why are you people
here?” comes the answer. At another point this leader urges his followers to
“take control of our city… This (revolt) is the instrument of your
liberation…. We come here… as liberators to return control of the city to its
people…. We give <U></U>Gotham<U></U> back to you, the
people.”<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
All of this sounds fine to those of us who object to corporate rule, until one
realizes who is speaking these lines and to whom. It is the arch villain
speaking to his followers. And these followers are nothing but a mob (in the
most literal sense) of prison rioters and blood-thirsty dwellers of the
nether, underground world. In other words, the alternative to the present
society is pure and simple chaos and mob violence. As the leader says,
“Spoils will be enjoyed. Blood will be
spilled.”<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
“<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Peaceful and prosperous” alternative to
mob rule</SPAN></B><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
If this were not enough, towards the end the lesson is that the hero – the
multi-billionaire Batman – has “saved the people (of Gotham/America) from the
abyss so that they can be useful, peaceful, prosperous and happy.” Yes, for
corporate-controlled <U></U><U></U>Hollywood<U></U><U></U> no message is too
crudely put.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
Corporate <U></U><U></U>America<U></U><U></U> is getting worried about the
resentment of tens of millions towards the super rich; they are worrying that
the Occupy movement represents the first wave of a movement that reflects this
resentment. As a result, they are putting forward the propaganda that the only
alternative is “the abyss” – total chaos and violence.
<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
This is not the first time that the capitalist class has launched such a
campaign. At the time of the Russian Revolution (close to 100 years ago), a
similar picture was painted. In other countries, it’s been done in different
ways. For instance, in the mid-90s in Mexico, the mass inter-ethnic violence
in Rwanda and Burundi that resulted in some 6 million being slaughtered was
blasted all over the Mexican media. The message was that the only alternative
to the repressive, corrupt rule of the PRI was this sort of nightmare.
<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
We can expect more of the same message here in the
<U></U><U></U>US<U></U><U></U> in the years to
come.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Violence in American media and video
games</SPAN></B><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
But there is more to this film than this message, however crudely put. There
is the culture of violence, along with a craving for the most simple sensory
stimulation that the entire <U></U>Hollywood<U></U> industry helps develop.
Consider what one sees when going to watch this
film:<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
For the first ten or fifteen minutes, trailers for different movies come on.
Every single one of these contains one short (few seconds long) scene after
another. Almost all these scenes are of violence. Then comes the feature film.
The first half of “Dark Knight” has almost no plot whatsoever. It too is
hardly more than a disjointed series of violent
events.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
This is not exactly a rarity in <U></U>Hollywood<U></U> productions. In fact,
ten years ago one study estimated that the average 18-year-old has watched
200,000 acts of violence on TV. And that probably didn't include watching
football. Added to this is the increase since then of the popularity of
video games, of which over 85% are violent according to “Psychology Today”
(7/17/2006). All serious studies show that watching violence, and
participating in it through video games, increase a tendency towards violent
actions and decrease natural human empathy. <U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
One study, for instance (“Desensitizing Effects of Violent Media”, Bushman and
Anderson) found that after watching violent episodes the viewer was less
likely to help an injured person. “The findings from both studies suggest that
violent media make people numb to the pain and suffering of others,” they
concluded. Another study (“The Effect of Video Game Violence,” Carnagey,
<U></U><U></U>Anderson<U></U><U></U> and Bushman) showed changed brain
patterns in those who played violent video games. As one author
concluded, “These findings indicate that violent video game play has a
long-term effect on brain functioning.” The part of the brain so affected “is
involved in inhibition and emotional
modulation.”<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">US Military
uses</SPAN></B><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
There are several different goals for <U></U><U></U>US<U></U><U></U>
capitalism that this popularizing of violence serves; the first is directly
military:<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
A series of studies have shown that in wars, up to 85% of troops normally are
unwilling to overcome the natural resistance to killing. They intentionally
fired over the heads of the “enemy” soldiers. By the time of the Korean War,
the top <U></U><U></U>US<U></U><U></U> military brass had determined to do
something about this. They devised a series of different trainings, including
target practice against more life-like targets to desensitize the troops to
killing their fellow human beings. Follow-up shows that these training methods
have been effective. When one adds to this the violence the typical
<U></U><U></U>US<U></U><U></U> soldier has watched, and vicariously
participated in through video games, you get a soldier whose natural
inhibitions against killing are overruled. Occasionally, one of these soldiers
goes berserk and shoots up a village in
<U></U><U></U>Afghanistan<U></U><U></U>, and all too often when they return
home they are so burned out that they kill themselves or their loved ones, but
that’s a small price to pay for American capitalism. (For this and more
information, see “The Compassionate Instinct” by Keltner, Marsh and
Smith.)<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Additional Benefits for
Capitalism</SPAN></B><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
In addition, by increasing the general level of violence in society, TV shows
and movies like “Dark Knight” serve to increase the distrust, the lack of a
feeling of “community”. This is always a positive when Corporate America is
seeking to prevent a mass movement against their domination over
society.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
There is another benefit: American society has had a historical tendency
towards short term thinking, towards avoiding considering ideas through to
their conclusion. The reasons for this are rooted in the unique way that
American capitalism developed – springing to birth on virgin soil (except for
a few million “Indians” who were easily slaughtered). The entire thrust of
<U></U>Hollywood<U></U> productions encourages this through its high tech
methods of simply providing one loud, bright stimulus after another. There is
no need for longer-term attention span. In fact, these productions discourage
it. But as they say, a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and the brain needs
stimulation. So in place of any serious ideas comes the thirst for one
immediate stimulus after another, and the majority of these stimuli are
violent (often linking sex with violence).<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
Of course, the corporate mouthpieces deny that violence in media and in video
games leads to physical violence. One team of economists – corporate
mouthpieces if there ever were any – made the silly claim that violent films
reduce the amount of violence in society by taking potentially violent people
off the streets and leaving them passively sitting in theaters. And then there
is the Entertainment Software Association, which claims that “there is no
scientific research that validates a link between computer and video games and
violence.” As many studies, including those mentioned above show, this
is a flat-out lie, similar to the lie the tobacco companies told for years
about the link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer.
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The domination of Corporate America over culture and the media is also
demonstrated in the reviews made of this terrible film. The reviewer for
the <I><SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Sacramento Bee </SPAN></I>called the
film “mesmerizing” and said that it “holds treasures, and plenty of tension,
as well.” The reviewer for National Public Radio called the film “satisfying”
and wrote that “this new movie has both feet planted firmly in the real
world.” This last comment was a reference to the theme in the film of a
revolt by something approximating the masses against the super rich. In this,
the reviewers –- mouthpieces for corporate
<U></U><U></U>America<U></U><U></U> that they are -- correctly explained
that the film was stirring up images of the Occupy movement. What they
don’t mention is that the film tries to portray every objection to the
domination of the rich and the corporations as bringing nothing but chaos and
blood-filled mob rule. This fear mongering is now replacing the Red Menace
(“Communism”) that was the alternative in an earlier
period.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Not in a
Vacuum</SPAN></B><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
</SPAN></FONT></B>Make no mistake: This cultural war is having a disastrous
effect, especially on young people. One study showed that while about 20% of
high school students have been victims of bullying, some 80% have carried out
bullying acts. The same study explained that in an incident similar to the
recent <U></U><U></U>Aurora<U></U><U></U> one – the killing in Columbine –
that before they carried out this atrocity the killers had made a video
similar to one they’d been playing – a video that bragged about what they were
planning on doing. (<A href="http://www.yuthguy.com/Literature%20Review.htm"
target=_blank>http://www.yuthguy.com/Literature%20Review.htm</A>)<U></U><U></U></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">
</SPAN></FONT></B>This violence in <U></U>US<U></U> society, the increase in
random killings as well as acts like those in Columbine and
<U></U><U></U>Aurora<U></U><U></U>, don’t take place in a vacuum. Corporate
<U></U><U></U>America<U></U><U></U> through their media, their economic
policies and their politicians and increasingly through their “education”
system drum into their victims the message that you are alone in the world.
Your problems are yours alone. If you are hungry, that’s your problem. If you
are homeless, if you need medical attention and can’t afford it, if you are
victim of bullying or abuse… all of this is your problem to be resolved by you
as an isolated individual. And if you live alone, lack friends, have no real
social contact – then the escape is video games like the (presumed) shooter in
<U></U><U></U>Aurora<U></U><U></U> played for an hour per day.
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
This, after all, is the real message in the opposition to socialized medicine.
It is the message in the drive to cut every social program in existence while
funding for wars is unlimited. It is the very heart of the message of the
entire “free” market propaganda.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">No Redeeming
Features</SPAN></B><U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
In terms of its surface as well as subliminal message, in terms of its
artistic value, plot and character development, “The Dark Knight Rises” has no
redeeming qualities whatsoever. It is no accident that its showing was
interrupted as it was in <U></U><U></U>Aurora<U></U>,
<U></U>Colorado<U></U><U></U>, by a youth who was saturated with the message
of the corporate-dominated culture that this film represents. As my
viewing partner commented once the movie was (gratefully) over: “I was worried
about surviving the movie, and it had nothing to do with any gunman.”
<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
However, despite the devastating consequences of the <U></U>Hollywood<U></U>
propaganda that “Dark Knight” epitomizes, despite the many billions they spend
on such, they will never be able to stamp out the basic human drives of
empathy and compassion that form the very basis for the evolutionary success
of the human species. This is proven by the increasing numbers of youth
who choose to make a statement against killing by adopting veganism. It is
proven in the tiny acts of kindness and friendliness that are carried out
every day. Most important, it is proven in the collective struggle that was
the Occupy movement (no matter how confused that movement may have been) and
in workers’ struggles and oppressed peoples’ struggles and that will grow
despite all repression and propaganda. <U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
Watching, and coming under the influence of propaganda like this movie may
make it more difficult to believe that, as they say, a different world is
possible. That is the intention. But everything about this movie –
including the nuclear explosion near the end – is proof that it is not just
possible, it is essential if the human species and life on this planet are to
survive and flourish.<U></U><U></U></SPAN></FONT></P>
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