Ty Hardee@hardee_ty
The outrage over casting decisions in Christopher Nolan’s version of the Odyssey,has little to do with the creative quality or entertainment value. The outrage is over values and subconscious manipulation. There is a power struggle being played out and the level of awareness varies greatly.
The myths we celebrate are far more important to our cultural perceptions than actual history. This is true because we don’t perceive the world through a collection of facts, we perceive it through a narrative. The idea originated from Carl Jung as far as I know..
If someone asked me before I encountered this theory, “how do you perceive the world.” I would have started that I collect facts with my senses, organize them in categories, and draw conclusions based on patterns. That’s not correct. Here’s what Carl Jung proposed and post modernists agree:
I have a micro narrative in my subconscious. Something like, “Ty goes to the bathroom.” That temporary framework becomes a template that informs all my perceptions, priorities, values, goals, tools and obstacles. It dictates what my senses perceive and why for a period. Inevitably the narrative plays out and gets replaced with a new one.
The narratives are fractals though. They’re like Russian dolls. One is nested inside another and it scales in both directions. There has to be a narrative in which all lesser narratives are nested.
Carl Jung thought the meta narratives are our most celebrated stories. The oldest and most celebrated stories are fairytales and myths. Harry Potter matters to how western culture perceives the world. The Odyssey matters exponentially more. Jung would argue Harry Potter is derived from myths like The Odyssey. All this occurs at what Jung labeled “the collective unconscious.” Our lack of conscious awareness renders them more influential not less.
When post modernism claims that “the patriarchy is a construct” what are they saying? They are implying that some arbitrary person/s in our past happened to tell a story that stuck, and we are all prisoners to the values imbedded within it.
The reason why post modernists are so determined to subvert the characterizations within our most celebrated stories is because they believe in doing so they can restructure society according to their desired image.
It’s a sophisticated long game strategy in which they believe they can replace myth with propaganda. Myth forms organically and becomes refined by telling and retelling across millennia. The values emerge through the collective by unconscious consensus. What is being attempted now, begins with an agenda, and reverse engineers the values they want to promote in order to manipulate the collective.
Most who enthusiastically support or oppose this film, and others like it, don’t consciously think in these terms. They intuitively perceive its importance though. The film executives making these decisions definitely do.
Consider how much money has been lost through failed films employing this ideology. This isn’t isolated to The Odyssey. Marvel movies and Star wars are modern myths. Look at Disney’s commitment to subverting fairy tales.
The film industry is notoriously cautious about adhering to proven strategies. Why do they persist in spite of continuous failures? An entity with influence and resources is willing to accept billions in losses to keep chipping away at the meta narrative that is problematic to their agenda.
Why is that?
Below is a link to @PageauJonathan. This post from him can explain what is actually going on far better than I.
