Do Groups of People Get What They Deserve?

I just found out that the latest Transformers movie made many times more money than a recent sci-fi film by Tom Cruise, Edge of Tomorrow.

This was deeply disturbing to me.

In a very real way, I don’t want to live in a world where this is possible.

And yet we have a blame loop here: People make these shitbag movies because they sell. And people watch them because they get made.

Politics

So, movies are just like our political representatives.

We have a shit congress for the same reason that Transformers made money: because we are shit. It’s not the congress or the movie that’s the problem.

It’s us.

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