I've started to hear rumors that the tide of woke might be turning, and the successes of movies that don't inject politics into stories that don't need them is actually due to a decision made a while back to start turning the ship at companies like Disney.
Of course, you can't turn a battleship like a speedboat, it takes a long time for these things to play out assuming it's even happening, so nobody should expect things to become ok again tomorrow. But I could believe it.
Some people think that companies will be too drawn into the DEI money such as cheap loans to possibly change, but let me ask you a question: As a business, would you rather have loans, or paying customers?
One danger is that slow processes tend to overshoot. The ideal for customers would be a chill agnosticism to politics rather than picking one side or another to any extreme. There's a lot that everyone can agree on so we don't need to focus every second in our escapism over the things we might disagree with.
It used to be that you obviously had friends you disagreed with politically but it wasn't the main focus of life. Two people can have diametrically opposed views on something like transgender washrooms, but if they're talking about the harmonics at the beginning of Roundabout by Yes and bonding over that, it turns out the bathroom habits of 0.1% of the population barely even come up. It's sort of narcissistic for anyone to think that their pet issue has to be brought into every single conversation at all times.
Of course, you can't turn a battleship like a speedboat, it takes a long time for these things to play out assuming it's even happening, so nobody should expect things to become ok again tomorrow. But I could believe it.
Some people think that companies will be too drawn into the DEI money such as cheap loans to possibly change, but let me ask you a question: As a business, would you rather have loans, or paying customers?
One danger is that slow processes tend to overshoot. The ideal for customers would be a chill agnosticism to politics rather than picking one side or another to any extreme. There's a lot that everyone can agree on so we don't need to focus every second in our escapism over the things we might disagree with.
It used to be that you obviously had friends you disagreed with politically but it wasn't the main focus of life. Two people can have diametrically opposed views on something like transgender washrooms, but if they're talking about the harmonics at the beginning of Roundabout by Yes and bonding over that, it turns out the bathroom habits of 0.1% of the population barely even come up. It's sort of narcissistic for anyone to think that their pet issue has to be brought into every single conversation at all times.
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