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  1. Dec 2022
    1. He said that many gentlemen of this kingdom, having of late destroyed their deer, he conceived that the want of venison might be well supplied by the bodies of young lads and maidens, not exceeding fourteen years of age nor under twelve

      Amazing, I love this idea. Now people won't be hungry, and the children won't be a burden on their mothers.

  2. Oct 2022
    1. As soon as the film begins, it is quite clear how it will end, and who will be rewarded, punished, or forgotten. In light music, once the trained ear has heard the first notes of the hit song, it can guess what is coming and feel flattered when it does come.

      Lack of spontaneity where people know whats coming, but is still into it because they know its a hit song.

    2. Consumers appear as statistics on research organisation charts, and are divided by income groups into red, green, and blue areas; the technique is that used for any type of propaganda.

      The thought of the consumer's taste is not what comes in mind first. They do not produce entertainment for the thought of fun and instead is for money where they believe consumers are just statistics apart of this

    3. In addition there is the agreement – or at least the determination – of all executive authorities not to produce or sanction anything that in any way differs from their own rules, their own ideas about consumers, or above all themselves.

      Authorities limit the capabilities of many producers to not make anything different because if one thing works then they will continue to do the same thing. Which honestly makes sense and that's why you can see similarities in many movies.

    4. real jazz or a cheap imitation; or if a movement from a Beethoven symphony is crudely “adapted” for a film sound-track in the same way as a Tolstoy novel is garbled in a film script: then the claim that this is done to satisfy the spontaneous wishes of the public is no more than hot air.

      When entertainment is made it is not spontaneous and instead is always adapted where people know what is coming.

    5. The truth that they are just business is made into an ideology in order to justify the rubbish they deliberately produce. They call themselves industries; and when their directors’ incomes are published, any doubt about the social utility of the finished products is removed.

      The truth of industry is that the goal is to make money and does not care much about the consumer. They will produce anything that they know the consumer would eat up and like even if it's garbage