{"id":135584,"date":"2023-01-01T18:53:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T23:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=135584"},"modified":"2023-01-01T18:53:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T23:53:03","slug":"tyranny-of-the-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135584","title":{"rendered":"Tyranny of the Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-135585 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woke-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woke-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woke-444x333.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woke-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/woke.jpg 577w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All is not well in Wokeville. What began as inclusion and diversification, don&#8217;t get me started, has metastasized into an Orwellian wet dream of Newspeak and the Ministry of Truth. Woke permeates the media and is The Narrative. Major companies began marketing strategies around a social justice agenda, hoping to find favor with a woke mob. This is relatively easily achieved with pandering to the latest outrage. Wash, rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Real people are tired of it.<\/p>\n<h3>Go Woke, Go Broke? Liberal movies, books, TV that bombed in 2022<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>Disney&#8217;s &#8216;Lightyear,&#8217; &#8216;Strange World&#8217; and &#8216;Bros&#8217; among 2022&#8217;s flops<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Kristine Parks | Fox News<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A swath of films, books and other media projects with far-left messages failed with audiences and consumers this year, according to box office numbers and sales.<\/p>\n<p>Disney&#8217;s first animated film with an openly LGBT character &#8220;Strange World,&#8221; tanked at the box office last month. The film had a whopping $180 million budget but only took in $24 million when it opened during the Thanksgiving holiday week, according to Variety. Pixar&#8217;s latest installment in the popular Toy Story franchise, &#8220;Lightyear,&#8221; failed to meet expectations, earning $51 million at the box office. The family-friendly series owned by Disney attracted headlines for having a same-sex kiss.<\/p>\n<p>Another film focused on LGBT characters, &#8220;Bros,&#8221; didn&#8217;t move the needle at the box office, either. Star Billy Eichner furiously warned &#8220;homophobes&#8221; on Twitter to not come see the movie. It grossed $14.8 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. The New York Times suggested &#8220;homophobia&#8221; could be the reason the gay romantic comedy was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>Movies with overtly political themes like the star-studded &#8220;Amsterdam&#8221; also failed to attract audiences this year. The film about friends who uncover a plot to overthrow the government, featured Robert De Niro&#8217;s character giving a &#8220;thinly veiled speech telling off Trump.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/go-woke-go-broke-liberal-movies-books-tv-bombed-2022\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Court of Public Opinion. Disney stock has tanked- down 44% this year costing shareholders billions, directly attributable to woke policy. The rest are cherry-picked for the article, but are high-viz instances of what woke really brings. Mentioned are AOC&#8217;s climate change video scold and Jon Stewart&#8217;s flop on Apple TV+, of which I was blissfully unaware until some 30 minutes ago. <\/p>\n<p>A sea-change? Maybe- a start certainly. Happy new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All is not well in Wokeville. What began as inclusion and diversification, don&#8217;t get me started, &hellip; <a title=\"Tyranny of the Marketplace\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=135584\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyranny of the Marketplace<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328,598,650],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-get-woke","category-points-and-laughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}