If you're at all aware of the sad state of Western popular culture, then you know what happened yesterday to Gina Carano. The Devil Mouse--via the Death Cultists in Lucasfilm--finally got around to doing what they've wanted to her thanks to sufficient social media noise from fellow travellers on the outside. Allow me to explain how this works, since I think a lot of people don't get (aside from folks like Vox Day) comprehend how the SJW Point-and-Shriek Swarm actually works.
TLDR: It's a Good Cop/Bad Cop routine, and it works like this.
The target of the pressure campaign is not the audience. The target is the shot-caller in the organization, and the aim is to make that shot-caller the "amenable authority". The Death Cultists within the organization are the Good Cop. Their fellow travellers on the outside are the Bad Cop. The pressure campaign is designed to make the shot-caller increasingly uncomfortable, between the external bad Public Relations damaging what the shot-caller is responsible for and the insiders using that pressure to make the target cave to their demands- whatever they may be.
The lynchpin? Information control. The target--the shot-caller--must have his information feed curated to gaslight him into a Narrative frame that matches what the insiders say is the truth. If this works, then the shot-caller comes to believe that the claims are justified and therefore acquiesing to the insiders' demands will solve the problem, as seen by the release of the pressure.
Rest assured that, whatever goes on in the public square, those offices at Lucasfilm and Disney are breathing a sigh of relief in some quarters while the insiders celebrate yet another scalp and with it yet another step towards Total Victory (i.e. control).
There is, in fact, very little that can be done when talking about a massive corporate target that doesn't involve equally massive mass action. You have to pull off something akin to the absolute cratering of box office and merchandise sales seen with the Sequel Trilogy, and you have to do it hard and fast; insofar as the Fandom Menace are at all doing anything that actually works, it's showing the normies just how bad things really are via showing how little the merch moves as well as how bad the box office is.
That, for the record, doesn't have nearly the punch that the Menace thinks it does because most normies do not care at all and big corporations like Disney have direct access to the money printer so "Get Woke, Go Broke" isn't a thing past a certain size (and with it ties into the Globohomo Network). Author David Stewart explains.
The core problem is that most fans use the franchise as a substitute for religion, which is why author Brian Niemeier rightly (a) calls this The Pop Cult and (b) calls this a front for the Death Cult; the only conclusion for the collapse of a Pop Cultist's false faith is the despair and nihilism that serves you right into the Death Cult's clutches to be fed upon and annilhiated (or worse).
The folks at Disney hate you. The SJWs hate you because you're The Enemy. The Big Corporate folks hate you because you act like mindless sheep that love to be sheered time and again no matter how abusive they are to you. Stop coping. Walk away. Prove that you're actual adults and not overgrown children.
You have more than enough alternatives to the Mouse Wars/Fake Trek/NuWho/etc. that actually respects you to last for the rest of your lives, and more gets made every day.
Stop coping. Stop being a paypig. If you can't do that, then you deserve the boot on your neck; they can't win if you don't pay.
They still win if you don't pay, because their victory condition is to destroy what you enjoy. They are going to do that whether you pay them or not.
ReplyDeleteSo don't pay them. Ignore them. Because irrelevance is their failure condition.