Part of my process of growing up and jacking out of the US imperial matrix was discovering that there is literally an entire WORLD of TV and cinema outside of Hollywood, and that I did not *need* to enage with ANY American entertainment whatsoever as long as I could deal with the tiny, 1-inch-high inconvenience of reading subtitles. Nowadays, having discovered Chinese, Korean and Japanese TV and film, I look back with so much scorn on the version of myself that was caged by Amerislop. I watch and read so much content from non-Western sources that I even realised that the so-called "Hero's journey" format of basically every Amerislop storyline is not a hard and fast rule of storytelling, but just some shit that a white guy made up - there are so many other even more entertaining story formats and styles in the world. The empire's greatest psy-op is to successfully convince you that it is the entire world, and that its Amerislop makes up the majority of human cultural output. That shit is a lie! It's the same old bait-and-switch they do by taking something free or plentiful, then monopolising it and making it scarce, or using marketing to convince you that it's scarce even if it's not, so that they reap super profits from your desperation or FOMO. Whether it's Sam Altman saying he intends to "put intelligence on a meter" so that you become dumber and you have to pay ChatGPT to do what you currently do for free inside your head, or it's Nestle and Pepsico saying that "water is not a human right" so that they can control what is free and sell it back to you, or Hollywood convincing you that Amerislop is the best or only entertainment available to you (despite tehre being a TON of substitutes), the basic oyibo business model is the same - capture your imagination and force you to pay for the privilege of being enslaved. Jack out of the matrix and come join us in the big world outside. It's great here!