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Blockbuster Movies: Entertainment and Indoctrination

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I think blockbuster movies serve, primarily, to familiarize the audiences with some ideas which the powerful are fond of. Of course those movies are intended to make money, and shaping mentalities is a way of doubling the revenues on the long term, since you get a population increasingly obedient and imitative. Now I should mention some examples so the idea can be discussed. Regretfully I don't keep a record of my thoughts while watching movies. Zootopia   What I mean is not the common indoctrination inherent to the entertainment: Zootopia , for example, defends the utopia of supressing the biology (prey/predator), and melting all the races and  characters in a unique mold of cute, unagressive people; and that isn't gonna be possible but under the hegemony of one dominant way of life (the American). No; I'm not talking about that kind of indoctrination. I'm speaking here of a specific discourse, very coherent and articulate, put in a dialogue sequenc

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قراءات (5) البوذية والسيف

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قرأت هذا المقـال المنشور في مجلة البيان؛ كتبه فيصل الكاملي. وجدته غنيا بالمعلومات المستقاة من دارسين لموضوع البوذية والعنف، وكيف يفسر ذلك تقتيلهم للمسلمين في بورما وغيرها.