Disney Angling to Dominate Pop Culture Is Not Good

The folks at World Class Bullshitters have something to say about the news regarding Disney seeking to buy Fox properties that include key Marvel properties such as the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

There is no good to be had from monopolies. There are only times when the alternative is worse, and that merely makes the monopoly an evil to be tolerated so long as it remains the lesser evil with no practical alternative. As soon as such arises, the tolerance must end and the monopoly annihilated with the fist of an angry God. It leads to stupid things like this, on the mild end, and gets worse from there. (e.g. Muh Rey Sue)

For more information, we can turn to the Midnight's Edge crew who devoted a video to the matter.

As one would expect, both channels are getting hit with the demonetization issues afflicting a lot of other channels. Throw them some scratch if you can spare it; they do good work.

We know that Disney isn't Walt's company and hasn't been for decades now. It's converged, pozzed, and maybe even now an active infection vector. Under the guise of being "advertiser" and "family" friendly, they will spread the disease good and hard into every part of the global culture regardless of the consequences. It will do to its subsidiaries as EA does to studios: buy, hollow, trash.

The key will be its assumption of a dominant distribution position, which they are already testing with its demands on theaters regarding The Last Jedi, paired with its PR media dominance via its ownership of key "news" media properties. The use of manufactured demand to create manufactured consent is intended to cement its position as the Leviathan of global culture, fighting only with Eastern (Chinese and Japanese, really) counterparts.

#AltCulture and #AltBanking is now necessary, folks. Otherwise it's like trying to stay healthy while all around you are virulently infectious.