Imagine films; books; stories that feel unreal and too for from the reality of your life and the culture that you live inside. Some of these stories feel too different and too interesting; all showing very different possibilities in configurations of the society and culture.

I was watching the film “Dreamers” today (Thanks to the exemplary taste of Zea). It was amazing it showed a very nice polyamory configuration of the society with so much of the norms being completely throw thrown away. I loved every single second of the beginning of the film. But then like the rest of the cinema this too huge and too good to be left for the viewer to take back home, and so; the character of the Matthew would tell the siblings their way of life “is not growing up” and then teaches them dating and stuff. He starts to correct them to have the norms of the culture.

I see each story and film like this as a way a shepard corrects the path of the their sheep.They do so by micro adjustments.

These films they also do the same thing. They allow for you to see and experience a whole different configuration of humanity only to then “show you that this is wrong” and that your way of life; that is the way you were reinforced to believe since you were born is the only right way to live.

The system simply forbids any form of experimentation and divergence from what it finds to be the “norm”. And it does it so rapidly and so good that no one suspects a thing.

Imagine Dreamers. The cast who can only be referred to as really pretty people are naked for almost seventy percent of the film’s duration. They talk about cinema; art; culture; and all that is a form of rebellion; and the whole film happens within the French Revolution of the Sixty Nine (R.I.P Guy Debord) that is—so far as I know—the most leftist thing in the whole planet. So you are, like me, so very expected to see the film as a very leftist, avantgarde, and norm-breaking piece of cinema history. But then I guess our problem is in that all films and almost all of our culture is always re-merging to what they believe is right and henceforth what is made by people will not be the actual truth or even the result of a simulation (as many are increasingly in the opinion of). They are doing their best to give you the simulation (what if you were part of a three body relationship?) yet they almost always end with their inner assumptions and predefined prejudices and parental opinions (related to Wilfred Bion maybe)

And so with each film, with each story, with each narrative we watch, we are course corrected, and reinforced to believe that anything but the ways of our societies are wrong, that we are going forward the best path path there is and there is no alternative that may ever work. Each time I try to imagine a better medium, a different society with schools and labs, a world without symbolically manipulated mathematics I have to fight everything that I know, all of these reinforcements, all the sirens that are alarming to “not going down this path, nothing but our glorious current direction works.”

Funny is how I am reading Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World these days and as I have repeatedly said, the sleep learning happens to be everywhere around me. I see the brain washing that is perhaps not even orchestrated but arising from our unconscious fears of a cultural collapse.