Editors note: Instead of spending your day of rest reading the Sunday New York Times, spend a leisurely Sunday wading through this rather lengthy yet informative Court Painter post..lots o’ words & pictures…what could be better?
Did Barbie Speed Up the Collapse of Trump’s Macho-Based Hate Movement?
AUG 18, 2023
The following EXCERPTED FROM ARTICLE:
Before you scoff, consider this:
— The reason “shock therapy” (electro-convulsive therapy or ECT) fell out of favor in America wasn’t just because of the development of anti-depressive medications during that era: it was also because of the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
— Deer hunting collapsed as a sport in large part because of the Disney movieBambi, and sociologists credit the film and it’s “Bambi Effect” with a rise in vegetarianism among boomers who were children when it came out (I sure still remember it, and my parents took me to see it during the film’s revival 66 years ago!).
— Teaching evolution and contrasting it with creationism in American classrooms became acceptable as the result of the movie Inherit The Wind about the Scopes Monkey Trial.
— The nationwide revival of the then-moribund Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s (leading to the Klan taking full political control of the State of Oregon that decade) was entirely attributable to D.W. Griffith’s movie Birth of a Nation.
— The movie Jaws caused a drop (that lasted for years) in people willing to swim in the ocean, as well as an increase in shark hunting that has caused some species to become endangered.
— The film Gone With The Wind, whitewashing the crimes of the Confederacy and the brutality of slavery, led to a revival in “Confederate Culture” that echoes across the South to this day.
Given this history, and the brilliant screenplay, acting, and production values of the movie Barbie, it would be naïve not to think it’s had an impact on American consciousness. The question is, how big is that impact?
And this just in….
Aug 19, 2023 #CNN #News
Not to be outdone by our influential neighbours to the south, in a grande apologetic Canuck gesture , Court Painter has nominated the following two movies as change agents in the course of cultural and social currents still felt in the Great Dominion… as far as we can tell!
