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The Boston Globe
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Opinion: How Film Industry Paved the Way for Our Trumpian Nightmare
The article explores how movies have shaped societal passivity, comparing the experience to watching a cobra approach in a garden versus confronting it directly. It suggests that over the past 130 years, cinema has transitioned from fostering curiosity about the world to encouraging spectatorship and helplessness, potentially impacting our ability to confront real-world threats such as political authoritarianism. The author questions whether modern technology, like AI, continues this pattern of fostering passivity rather than action.
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