Hollywood has a lot of reasons it's collapsing, but one of the big ones is that the ideological left infected it and then proceeded to make it a place where only the left's ideas could thrive.
This had a deteriorating effect on things. The rigidity of what could and couldn't be spoken about and how caused movies and television shows made there to become stale and stagnant. Things were made for the "modern audience," an entity that didn't exist in a large enough capacity to support the bloated budgets these movies had.
After a time, Hollywood went from being a cultural powerhouse to a cultural afterthought. You still get some good movies from time to time, but these are few and far between. If Tinseltown had kept its mind open, and politics more or less out of things, perhaps we'd be seeing a vastly different landscape, but we don't. They kept their ideological bubble impermeable and over the course of time, they lost touch with the outer world while still trying to speak to it.
You know this story as well as anyone if you read my work consistently, but there's a lesson to be learned here, and that's to refrain from closing yourself off to other people and ideas.
It's one that the left, or at least too many leftists in places of power, haven't caught onto yet. While there are definitely some Democrats raising the alarm that they've gone too far and sunk too deep, for the most part, the left has learned nothing.
(READ: The Moderate Democrats Now Need to Make Their Move and Begin Seizing Their Party)
That's pretty evident as now, the left is, once again, looking to bubble itself away from anyone who might burst that bubble.
Elon Musk's X is a pretty great platform where free speech can flourish and information can be distributed freely. This has never sat well with the left, which complained endlessly about "disinformation," claiming the lack of controls make it too easy to lie to people and as such, censorship was necessary.
Funny enough, they always thought their people should be the ones deciding what is and isn't true, which isn't how the truth works.
Apparently, there's a new social media platform called "Bluesky" out there, and it's become a ship on which many leftists are transferring to from X. Leftists are making their move to Bluesky a big to do, releasing statements.
Never missing a chance to be dramatic, Don Lemon did one such statement.
My statement on leaving Twitter pic.twitter.com/9tYcfqHhhC
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) November 13, 2024
Oh, and he released a video too.
My statement on leaving Twitter pic.twitter.com/9tYcfqHhhC
— Don Lemon (@donlemon) November 13, 2024
Bluesky has seen an explosion of sign-ups, and it's been advertising itself on X heavily, even taking pot shots at Musk himself.
i can guarantee that no bluesky team members will be sitting with a presidential candidate tonight and giving them direct access to control what you see online https://t.co/oLekvrULRl pic.twitter.com/UdL05ob6jz
— bluesky (@bluesky) November 5, 2024
Its pinned comment is a quote stating "I didn't realize how much I missed interacting with real humans," effectively saying X is full of bots and Bluesky isn't. It also has a blue heart in its description in its bio. I'm not entirely sure if that's cute symbolism, but blue hearts are an open indicator on X that someone is a Democrat voter.
I'm not going to laugh at people for migrating social media apps in frustration. Conservatives did that with Parler and Truth Social.
But conservatives moved to those platforms because Twitter was censoring them, and they wanted free speech. These leftists are migrating to Bluesky because they're tired of all that free speech exposing them to ideas they don't like.
We are not the same.
I'm not sure if Bluesky will flourish or fail like many others did, but my money would be on it failing, simply because it's just going to become another echo chamber that's impossible to interact in. Remember Mastodon? Mastodon was a leftist social media platform that, over time, collapsed in active users because leftists are a very particular bunch. If they see something they don't like, they want it eliminated, and changes to occur to make sure it doesn't happen again.
One has to wonder how long it will be before we start hearing complaints of overt censorship on Bluesky. My feeling is that it won't take long, and we'll probably start seeing some of the people who defiantly and loudly left X start trickling back in.
Rest assured, they will be clowned on, but I'll be honest, I'll be glad to see them back.
I like having my friends close and my enemies closer. I like hearing what they have to say, what they think, and want they want.
But more than any of that, is that I don't want the right to suffer from a lack of diversity of thought either. We can just as easily become a disconnected echo chamber as the left can, and it won't do us any favors, either.
In any case, all the best to those going to Bluesky. I'll see a lot of you back on X.
