In Hollywood they make horror movies about a murderous psychopath running around slashing people, instead of making horror movies about the fact that murderous psychopaths rule our entire world this very moment.

In Hollywood they make movies about imaginary billionaires who use their wealth to fight crime and injustice, instead of about real billionaires who do literally the exact opposite.

In Hollywood they make movies about a band of protagonists fighting to save the world from disaster, but it's always some far-fetched imaginary disaster and not the actual disasters our world is hurtling toward right this very minute.

In Hollywood they make movies about good guys fighting bad guys, but it's never the real kind of good guys and it's never the real kind of bad guys.

In Hollywood they make movies about superheroes punching supervillains into buildings and supervillains punching superheroes into buildings, never about superheroes using their powers to expose government evils, free the unjustly imprisoned, or conduct investigative journalism.

In Hollywood they make movies about protagonists who start off happy and then something bad happens so they have to get things back to normal, but it's a fictional normal that normal people have never experienced in their lives because our society is gravely dysfunctional.

In Hollywood they teach us to expect clear linear stories with easily recognizable good guys and bad guys, and then in Washington and Langley they exploit these expectations by telling fake linear stories about targeted governments with easily recognizable good guys and bad guys.

In Hollywood they make movies about heroes fighting powerful villains with ambitions of global domination, but it's always imaginary villains in an imaginary world and not the real-life villains who are doing exactly that in this world.

In Hollywood they make ninety-minute commercials about how America is perfectly sane and how capitalism is totally working.

In Hollywood they make movies about cops and soldiers fighting on the side of justice to rescue good people from bad people, instead of about the real kind who do the very opposite.

In Hollywood they train you to think in terms of narrative and then propagandists exploit that training, when real life follows no clear narratives and awakening from this delusion exposes the whole deceitful puppet show.