This is a culture post about mostly modern-era dissident films.

I was pretty happy with my last pop culture post about the wonderful ABBA, so I thought I would hit popular entertainment from another direction: a list of films reflecting dissident themes, most from within the modern era (post-2000).

First, why care? Well, whatever content one consumes, even if you decide to reject it, it becomes a part of your psyche and impacts you – it leaves an imprint of the framing on your mind. Very few people understand this. The woke movement succeeds by putting it’s ideas in your mind even if you consciously reject it. This is why I try to limit the content I consume. For example, I have David Rockefeller’s autobiography to read and have been very reluctant to read it; I know the man and what he stands for, and his attempts to justify his actions to the public using extreme deception and duplicitous language, crouched in the most vile filth and lies, is going to require a lot of mental stamina to get through, if I do decide to read it. It will leave an imprint.

In the same way, watching content that highlights dissident themes serves to reinforce one’s worldview, so to the extent such content can be consumed it is a good thing. Although content in film and television reflecting these themes is quite rare, while less rare in books if one knows where to look.

Second, let’s define dissidence for purposes of this thread. The globohomo world order is centered around a core belief in egalitarianism, a belief which ratchets over time as an egalitarian ratchet effect. Super-imposed over the belief in egalitarianism is the privately owned central bank system. Being a “dissident” to this system is to acknowledge without judgment the inegalitarianism inherent in reality in all its various facets. No individuals, groups, religions, or anything else in this reality is equal – distributions occur on bell curves – and nothing humanity can do can ever make the unequal equal. That doesn’t mean humanity shouldn’t work to decrease inequalities, it’s just that there’s a world of difference between laboring to do so in the knowledge that it can never be fully accomplished (which is how Lee Kuan Yew approached it) versus coming up with ideological excuses (racisms, sexisms, -isms, -phobias, etc.) and if only humanity could banish them with control and violence it would be here.

An acceptance of inegalitarianism within film hits on at least some of the following themes, and the more the better:

1. The negative correlation between materialism and spirituality,


2. populism as a check on the horrors of oligarchy,


3. a king or dictator as a check on the horrors of oligarchy,


4. the importance of immigration restrictionism,


5. standing against globohomo-sponsored wars,


6. a promotion of religion at the expense of secularism,


7. an emphasis on community and family togetherness, and


8. resistance to groupthink and globohomo propaganda.

This definition excludes some large categories of male oriented films: pro-globohomo war films (Black Hawk Down, Lone Survivor or American Sniper), high-testosterone 80s action films (Predator, Alien), and action/adventure films like the great Master and Commander, even though these films highlight warrior brotherhood and various forms of masculinity.

Lastly, one has to be careful when looking at historical films or other forms of entertainment. These films embodied a particular moment of the cultural zeitgeist, and due to the egalitarian ratchet effect many APPEAR to be inegalitarian compared to the standards of today, but that is not how they were received at the time. Just like watching Archie Bunker now looks amazingly anti-politically correct but that is not how it was perceived at the time, or Married with Children or any of the 80s action movies which weren’t woke, etc. Pretty much everything looks anti-globohomo when you look back on it twenty years later. So the idea is for films that meet as much of the above themes as possible but especially in the context where they buck whatever the zeitgeist is in the era in which it was released.

The following list is in no particular order, except for the final film which towers above the rest. It is also not meant to be comprehensive.

1. Fight Club (1999), trailer here. It’s anti-consumerist and wrestles with how to find meaning after Nietzsche’s death of God and how to form brotherhood in an era of atomization. One of its producers, Art Linson, recalled the first screening of the film for Fox’s executives: they were, he said, “flopping around like acid-crazed carp wondering how such a thing could even have happened.” There were rumors that Rupert Murdoch loathed the movie so much that Bill Mechanic (the executive who green-lighted it) might have been quietly nudged from his position.