It just never stops, does it? As a Conservatarian, I know that I get bombarded almost 360 with Woke messages of all types: Social Justice, unbounded Sexuality, Drugs, Progressivism, Education, Voting, the denigration of traditional American values…the list would consume several blogs (not just blog posts). It seems like at every turn, we must be absorbed into their worldview. And the Woke work hard to incorporate that worldview into legislation so as to leave no gap between them and the new “acceptable” behavior and thought.
We who hate this untoward Collectivization see it all the time and everywhere but I guess that is insufficient for the Eco-Socialists over at Treehugger (reformatted, emphasis mine):
TV and Film Scripts Need to Stop Ignoring the Climate Crisis
Only 2.8% of the scripts included any climate-related terms.Screenwriters and storytellers are in a strange conundrum when it comes to the climate crisis. On the one hand, we, the viewing public, often look to art to explore the big topics of our time. On the other hand, we also often turn to TV, film, and fiction to escape from our daily realities, and many of us a leery about being preached to on a topic that stresses us out already.
So, now that we are finally hearing at least slightly more often about the climate crisis in the news media, is there a way for screenwriters to effectively explore this topic without feeling like they are sacrificing their story to an agenda or breaking the carefully constructed reality that their characters inhabit?
This is a challenge that climate and storytelling nonprofit Good Energy has been working on for quite some time. Having created a climate playbook for screenwriters (in which I have a short chapter about hypocrisy), the group now released a report that suggests many screenwriters are shying away from tackling this topic at all. Produced in collaboration with USC Norman Lear Center’s Media Impact Project, this new report consists of a first-of-its-kind analysis of 37,453 TV and movie scripts produced between 2016 and 2020.
Here’s just some of what that analysis found:
- Only 2.8% of the scripts analyzed included any climate-related terms, such as “global warming,” “sea-level rise,” “solar panels,” etc.1
- Even fewer (just 0.6%) explicitly mentioned the term “climate change.”
- Only 10% of extreme weather events such as hurricanes, wildfires, or other climate-related disasters that were shown on screen were linked by writers in any way to climate change.
They just can’t leave us alone. They know that their message is being rejected. They also know, from the example of how the Media started and has “normalized” gay behavior where there was nothing before, following the same playbook can be “profitable” for their cause. even as enough of the 50 year litany of prophetic doomsday predictions that have fallen flat. However, it wasn’t just the author of the post that was kvetching, a couple of the commenters, too, said they were trying to influence TV and Movie writers.
I left a comment along with a bit of a challenge reference just to see who’d catch it. WHY force more shows to do the Wokeness shuffle?
Why, running out of evangelists?
Look, I go to TV for escapism – not to be lectured at. But that’s the Left for you – they are just bound to NEVER leave you alone. It’s almost like hectoring is their version of “oral indulgences” that must be paid to at least get to purgatory.
At least they have a purgatory. I have NO idea of what their heaven would look like but they all act as if they are already in hell looking for that one drop of cold water…(let’s see who gets that reference first).
As I keep saying over and over again, I watch very little network TV on my own (if I sit on the living room couch, TMEW “shares” the wide-screen with me but she generally has the lion’s share). It’s generally more documentary or reality type fare – as I write this, I have “How It’s Made” on the Science channel on for background noise (or distraction – your choice). I’ve had enough with the preaching of Progressive ideas and have worked to not have to listen/watch.
Anyways, Libertarian VB caught the missionary part (H/T: Nitzkahon):
Why, running out of evangelists?
Well, Al Gore didn’t work out for them, and their kid darling Greta wimped out on them over COP27 in Egypt—even an Asperger’s home-schooled kid understands that elites aren’t going to do anything meaningful other than bluster about some more, and proclaim “THIS time for sure we’re cereal!”
(See how many get that reference, Grok! ????)
And then Randy caught the reference of mine:
I think they would insist that Abraham instead dump the cold water into the bay in case the Delta Smelt were thirsty.
Heh!
And we have a WINNAH!
So, loyal readers, how many of you know where that Abraham reference originates from? Bonus points for chapter and verse!
I do dryly note that none of the usual progressive commenters even made a try at it…
(H/T: Treehugger)
