Narrative Warfare: The End of Hollywood Capes & Institutional Incompetence

Razorfist cut his rant about the inevitable fall of Hollywood cape films.

First, he's not wrong. Hollywood consumes genres over roughly 10-20 year cycles. That goes longer depending on source material, quality of adaptations, quality of execution, and cultural conditions creating demand therefore. There isn't that much good source material--especially now--when compared to Film Noir, Westerns, War, or Spy/Caper films. The execution has only been good consistently in the MCU (until now), and the conditions for capes is already shifting away from promoting the demand. That Endgame did prove to be prophetic was obvious to anyone familiar with how the Hellmouth works.

Second, while this is a typical Hollywood genre cycle, this factors into the larger decline of the West brought about by Death Cult convergence and its irrational incompetence. There should be another major genre waiting in the wings to break out and keep the business rolling, but there isn't because the institional convergence into the hands of said cult results in the promotion of incompetent cult loyalists that cannot even put out propaganda that people want to watch or read.

The proof of this is the overwhelming success of non-converged mainstream media that otherwise would be dismissed as terminally stupid--e.g. Pratt's Tommorrow War--merely by being sincere entertainment works with non-Death Cult narratives as well as media from non-converged rivals to Hollywood such as Japan, Russia, India, and even (some may say especially) China. Then there is the independent scene in the West, which is where dissidents can and do thrive if they can find an audience.

Film, television, comics, novels- all of them are seeing this happen, starting first with more online-savvy cohorts and spreading out to Normies over time. Demon Slayer fits this model very well, as both its film/TV and its comic versions utterly dominate Death Cult alternatives wherever it can be had.

This cannot be going unnoticed by the Death Cultists in senior management across the industry. What can be going on is stupefication over how and why--it runs contrary to their narrative--and thus heretofore ineffectual or nonexistent attempts to thwart this threat to their domination. Once something not just non-Death Cult, but explicitly anti-Death Cult comes to their attention we can expect an apopletic response out of these converged institutions.

As I said previously, the Death Cult must have a monopoly on the narrative. Right now, they don't. If they cannot converge these rivals into loyal Cult outlets, then they will attempt to destroy them. If they cannot destroy them, then they will move to cut off access to them by the population they seek to subjugate- to erect their own Great Firewall and do as China has successfully done for its own subject population.

Yes, I said "successfully". Try to convince some visiting ChiCom kid that Tiannemen Square happened and see what they do. Narrative monopolies work very well.

With audiences tuning out of Hollywood capes, and audiences tuning out of Mouse Wars, Fake Trek, Not My Who, etc. in droves they are finding alternatives that satisfy their wants and the Death Cult can't have that. They just aren't willing to admit that they are under threat yet and act accordingly; you'll know they are when they move to choke and censor all non-converged media, usually under some form of "hate speech" or "protecting people" excuse since no one gives a shit about the lie that is Muh Piracy anymore.

Be glad that the enemy is not competent, just cunning and ruthless.