Holy

I’m watching this documentary on Hollywood and the founding of it, and watching it, you get the impression that the, how do you say, the oomph of cinema was in the hands of these studio heads, but the entire industry depended on quality films that had shelf life, and people like Murnau and Dreier and Lang, not heads of studio, but would come to define cinema at the most foundational level.

See, even there, there’s like what you said that they depended on the studios, and I disagree. I think the entire studios were built around the hope of people like this coming in to make films.

As much as I love about, I love reading about, you know, the politics and uh social uh upheaval and uh racial, religious uh discriminations and uh overcomings by people through said Hollywood, the idea that cinema isn’t entirely revolved around bringing and allocating large sums of money into the hands of artists, you know what I mean? You lose sight of what the whole enchilada is about.

And that, specifically too, has everything to do with a want to claim that oomph that I was talking about, and to say, oh, that theme has to do with immigrants coming to America, or it has to do with the way in which the American dream was founded. And all of it is just supplementary at best. I feel like that, like myopia, has hurt the world, truly, because people do not understand how much of their entire life, which includes the American dream, which includes making a better way of life for all people regardless of race, color, or creed, has to do with artists using money brilliantly.

And I mean this in the most effectual way possible. Politics, which has to do with relations, has everything to do with presentation and therefore spectacle. And these artists who made great films turned the page of history. Everybody is in lockstep. I remember when Reagan referenced Star Wars. That was not crazy. That made perfect sense.

And today, we have still to grapple with this confiscation of art by the artists, by all forms of political and social causes, run by people who are not artists, but who wish to claim the work of artists as their own. I knew from a very young age that my lust for power had everything to do with becoming an artist.

And all this, too, has to do with is the very edges of what we would call aesthetics, which is a component of an even greater world of logic, metaphysics, ethics. I’m watching these Hollywood commentaries, and I can’t help but feel that behind the scenes of all of this is a certain organization that is very familiar with Plato and very in control of everything the fuck that’s going on.