Critical Drinker’s video about Disney’s “the Acolyte” was really impressive in so many ways. I don’t know if he’s Christian or not, but this guy definitely understands what’s happening.
In the video, Critical Drinker, a well-respected writer and film critic with over a million subscribers, questions Hollywood’s direction with their recent slew of movies. He asks:
“Why are they trying to dupe people into thinking that nothing is intrinsically good or bad, that morality and objective reality don’t actually exist, and everything comes down to what you personally feel? It’s almost like once you stop people from believing in anything, then they’ll eventually come to accept everything.”
No lie, I was listening to the video while getting ready for my road trip to Georgia and I had to stop to speak on this, because it hits close to home.
When I was in film school, my screenwriting teacher said the same thing. He said, “Rock, people don’t go to the theaters to be preached to.”
Even recently, a Disney investor slammed the company for its woke Marvel Superhero films saying, “People go to watch a movie or a show to be entertained. They don’t go to get a message.”
But I knew…even back in 2009 when I was 22, I knew that Hollywood has ALWAYS used film and entertainment to influence the masses. I saw a generation be influenced by the West Coast/East Coast Raps to drop the black culture of A Different World, Fresh Prince of Bel Air and Family Matters.
I saw the WWE, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and the Fast and the Furious turn us into attitude laced, suped-up street racing brawlers.
And in 2009, I saw the beginning of what has taken flight for over a decade when it comes to Woke messaging being preached in nearly every blockbuster film targeted to the young and upcoming generation.
Back in 2012, when I began my publishing career, I saw as nearly every literary agent from these “diverse” agencies were all looking for the same stories. They claim to be about Diversity and Inclusion, but they’re not. If you aren’t pushing an agenda, a narrative, a story that’s getting across their morals, then you are not to be included.
Nearly every agent was looking for Strong Female Characters, LGBTQ stories, and if you’re black, they wanted you to talk about the oppression and adversity of black people. Not how we can all come together, or how going through that adversity made us tougher and built character that our parents passed down to us, to never give up, that this world owes you nothing, and so what if you have to work 10x harder, you’ll be better for it. No no no.
What they want in those Black Oppression stories is how white men are bad. Fathers are optional. The patriarchy is evil. Traditional values are oppressive. And essentially, that Christianity should die because, as some of the parishioners from that Hillsong Documentary put it, “Christianity has always been a few steps behind”.
Even in a recent movie that kinda hints at what’s going on, “American Fiction,” the writer gets the situation correct in that the gatekeepers want to push a stereotype about Black people. Even Jason Whitlock released two videos about how Record Labels backed hip hop artists that corrupted the youth.
In the video’s intro of Critical Drinker talking about the new Star Wars show “The Acolyte,” he posits an important point:
“Why are they trying to dupe people into thinking that nothing is intrinsically good or bad, that morality and objective reality don’t actually exist, and everything comes down to what you personally feel? It’s almost like once you stop people from believing in anything, then they’ll eventually come to accept everything.”
…and there you have it. This is why you have so many people turning away from Christ and turning away from religion. It’s why you have so many people who say that they’re “spiritual but not religious,” which essentially means they’re flexible and are willing to bend and break any rule of morality to serve their own personal desires.
It’s the reason why you have so many who were raised in the church going the way of Atheism and Agnosticism. It’s why you have the highest rates of people identifying as genders they weren’t born with, or being sexually attracted to those they weren’t historically paired with.
It’s also a huge reason why a lot of Good Christian Men are not finding wives worthy of marriage. That isn’t to disparage good single Christian women who are indeed out there and we just haven’t found you yet. But it speaks to the overwhelmingly majority of both men and women who claim to be Christians, but they don’t live by Bible principles. Instead, they have those flexible standards, thus…acting as their own gods.
Wise, discerning men see that and we simply cannot trust our hand in marriage, knowing that at any moment you can wake up one day, fall in love with someone else, or decide you’re no longer happy…divorce us and take half our stuff and the children to be raised by you and some other dude you shack up with.
And no matter how much money the companies lose, it will never change. This is all evidence of Satan’s wicked system and it won’t end until Christ returns.
Recently, I got back a book review for my novel “The Perennial War of Paramours”. I paid over $200 for this, and whoever reviewed it must have rage-read it because they got several character facts wrong.
For those who don’t know, the premise of my book is about a “secret society” of powerful feminists who are hellbent on controlling the culture, entertainment, and politics. However, in order to join this society, every woman must prove their loyalty to the sisterhood by killing the man they love the most in this world.
It sounds like a Battle of the Sexes, but really it’s about two recruits, two women who simply love their men too much to kill them for the sake of one gender’s domination over the other. That sounds like an awesome message my generation sorely needs. Or so I thought…
The reviewer tore me to shreds and claimed it was homophobic with thinly-veiled misogyny. She said I bemoaned the plight of white men and praised incels. And yet…I think the coolest thing she wrote about my book, even if it was written to mock me…was that she acknowledged that I “draw on my Christian faith.”
For my faith to be so evident in reading my book, which is an action-packed “conspiracy” thriller…I call that a win. In the Book of John, Jesus warns that the servant is not greater than his master. They hated him, they will hate you who endeavor to follow Christ.
When the website (Blue-Ink) posts the review on their website, I’ll update it here.
Annnnd, a more professional review came out that gave me a 2 out of 5 stars, but I can accept that. This review seems more unbiased than the Blue-Ink one.