Who Warns Of Warners? – Beragampengetahuan

Simple action stories depict conflict with an outsider villain/monster. In fighting that monster, the hero often gets help from their usual social allies, such as friends, family, and local authorities. In a more “modern” story, however, the villain may be a friend, parent, boss, teacher, police, or government agency. The hero must now learn to distrust many usual authorities, and judge who are their real allies. 

Such stories come from our usual cultural authorities, however, like those who make our movies, TV shows, novels, and songs. And so these can be seen at a meta level as the same simple hero story: our cultural authorities teaching us how to anticipate and deal with the real villains we may encounter in our modern world. So then a meta-modern story is when those cultural authorities become the villains. In such stories, heroes must learn to distrust many cultural authorities and decide which ones are their real allies. 

Now there are some movies roughly of this form. But they typically warn against trusting *conservative cultural authorities. For example, Breaking the Waves and Handmaids Tale warn against trusting religious cultural authorities. Videodrome, Natural Born Killers, Starship Troopers, and Fight Club warn against trusting authorities who promote violence. Pleasantville, Network, Stepford Wives, and They Live warn against trusting traditional culture. While movies like Matrix and Truman Show warn generically against trusting appearances, they don’t warn about culture in particular. 

However, as our cultural elites are now dominated by non-conservatives, such movies are now really just our usual cultural authorities warning against trusting rebels who defy their cultural dominance. They are not really warning against trusting dominant cultural authorities. Any movies that do this must be pretty far out into the long tail of niche products. But they might be the warnings we really need. 

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