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Moral panics[edit]
Moral panic | Main antagonist | Fellow travelers | Casualties | Victor |
---|---|---|---|---|
Second red scare (late 1940s) | Joseph McCarthy | Roy Cohn, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump (after the fact) | Hollywood blacklist | Spartacus (1960) |
Comic books | Fredric Wertham, Seduction of the Innocent (1954) | Comics Code Authority | Free speech | Underground comix (1967) |
War on Christmas (1959)[1] | John Birch Society, American Family Association | Santa Claus, Krampus | Melania Trump (declared defeat in 2018) | Retailers |
The Comstock Act (1873) | Anthony Comstock | YMCA, NYPD | Birth control, Literature, Sex education | Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) |
Nihilism of everyday life[edit]
- Ultimate fate of the Universe
- Christianity
- "It won't matter. I'll be dead by then."
IP[edit]
- Clarence Thomas replacement of Thurgood Marshall (1991)
- Amy Coney Barrett replacement of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2020
- Herschel Walker vs. Raphael Warnock (2022)
- George Santos who is 'Jew-ish' in fantasy vs. Robert Zimmerman who is Jewish in reality[2] (2022)
- Nikki Haley vs. Kamala Harris (2024)
Films[edit]
A list of films that that are both missional and have sufficient cinematic artistry to be worth watching at least once
Comedies[edit]
- Blazing Saddles, directed by Mel Brooks — deals with racism in a subtly complex way, a take-down and homage of the Western film, worth rewatching
- Dogma
- Dr. Strangelove, directed by Stanley Kubrick — a very dark comedy on nuclear war
- The King of Hearts — an anti-war film set during World War I
- Idiocracy — the decline and fall of America, suppressed by Fox
- Life of Brian by Monty Python — a very naughty film
- Watermelon Man, directed by Melvin Van Peebles
Dramas[edit]
- A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick
- Paths of Glory, directed by Stanley Kubrick — an anti-war film
Akira Kurosawa films[edit]
- Rashomon — deals with different perspectives of same brutal event (ripped off by Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring )
- The Lower Depths — a very dark comedy (rescripting of Maxim Gorky's play)
Kurosawa's samurai films, often bleak, can be viewed through the lens of Japan's defeat in World War II
- Seven Samurai
- The Hidden Fortress (ripped off by Steven Spielberg's Star Wars)
- Yojimbo (ripped off by Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars)
Documentaries[edit]
- Eyes on the Prize — TV series on the Civil Rights movement
- An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore — climate change
- I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary on writer James Baldwin