Making the Universe Great Again - Charles Eisenstein Thoughts on Avengers: Endgame

[Rafael Thundercat]

If you follow some keys speakers on the world situation and Sense Making I recommend following this guy. Sometimes his communications are diffucult to understand but at same time I like the challenge and perspectives. I could add him is the side of Daniel Schmachtenberger. 

In the article he use the narrative of Avengers to explicate the Cognitive Dissonances on the Political,Economic and World Views that are being propagated in the peoples minds via Movies and why not all Media. 

Quoute " 

The aesthetic shortcomings of Avengers: Endgame reflect disturbing trends in politics and society. Worse, the film is a propaganda and indoctrination vehicle for those trends.

I’ll explore three of them here:

• the shattering of causal connections and holistic understanding
• escapism into delusions of restoring a heroic past
•  and the descent into a virtual reality of image that seems to excuse us from the laws of material reality

All of these have profound political implications.

https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/making-the-universe-great-again/

other quoute 

"To Make America Great Again requires some kind of reference point. Great in respect to what? What exactly is it about the past that Trump and other national chauvinists around the world seek to restore? While Trump might harbor erratic non-interventionist tendencies, these necessarily collide with the ugly truth of “greatness” in an imperial system, where great equals dominant. Supremicism requires someone to vanquish and subjugate.

this link may interest too, since the point of Charles is also about the Society of Spectacle, where narrative and propaganda takes more relevance than Truth and Coherence. 

https://hyperallergic.com/313435/an-illustrated-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/

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In the context of theater or fiction, the audience must collude with the storyteller in order to uphold the story. The same is true with the Spectacle put on by the dominant powers of civilization today: the public has an interest in suspending its disbelief. In particular, the affluent classes in affluent societies do not want to know what their affluence is built upon. They have a vested interest in a narrative that obscures the real workings of the world: the exploitation and ruin of people, places, cultures, and ecosystems, even the planet itself. The world we live in today is tolerable only because so much of it is hidden from view. In the political realm as in the personal, the dupe gains temporary benefit from the liar’s lies. The parent unconsciously agrees to believe that the teenager is indeed studying with her friends. Liar and dupe collude in maintaining the lie.

Do we really want to know the truth?

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the article ends like this: 

This is not to suggest that we put an end to the human drama. We are story-making animals. Stories and symbols, that say who we are and what is real, are a fundamental way that human beings create the world together. Today though, we are stuck collectively in a story that does not serve us and does not serve life. For many this is true on the personal level too. At such times as today, we are repelled by inauthenticity, posturing, and pretense, and we want to come back to the real.

Edited August 3 by Rafael Thundercat