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==Hollywood as a tool of (anti)social pedagogy==

==Hollywood as a tool of (anti)social pedagogy==

 

While before 1945 forms of "art" which appealed to the lowest and basest instincts of man or deliberately portrayed man as completely immoral were confined to a small circle among the "elite" of the decadent, parasitic intelligentsia, after the war this content was popularized on a large scale and pushed for mass consumption to the American people, with Hollywood playing the lead role in this popularization. The barriers between 'esoteric' art and mass kitsch were dismantled with increasing vigor. The

cinema (and also radio and literature) started spreading to the widest extent the uninhibited venting of even the worst instincts. The constant increase in juvenile delinquency, starting from the late 1940s and early 1950s, demonstrates the results of such 'social pedagogics'.<ref name="thecharnelhouse.org">https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Georg-Luka%3Fcs-The-Destruction-of-Reason-1952.pdf</ref>

While before 1945 forms of "[[art]]" which appealed to the lowest and basest instincts of man or deliberately portrayed man as completely immoral were confined to a small circle among the "elite" of the decadent, parasitic intelligentsia, after the war this content was popularized on a large scale and pushed for mass consumption to the American people, with Hollywood playing the lead role in this popularization. The barriers between 'esoteric' art and mass kitsch were dismantled with increasing vigor. The cinema (and also radio and literature) started spreading to the widest extent the uninhibited venting of even the worst instincts. The constant increase in juvenile delinquency, starting from the late 1940s and early 1950s, demonstrates the results of such 'social pedagogics'.<ref name="thecharnelhouse.org">[https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Georg-Luka%3Fcs-The-Destruction-of-Reason-1952.pdf Destruction of Reason] by Georg Lukacs </ref>

It was important for the (liberal) ruling class to "re-educate" man of the post-war generation by tempering him to a sort of barbarism, to the brutal and merciless imposition of his selfish interests, which necessarily implies a hypocritical attitude as the way to adapt to the [[Social Darwinism|Social-Darwinist]] "struggle for existence". In the field of cinema, this kind of pedagogy necessarily produces movies that either openly preach banditry, gangsterism and murder (such as movies in [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] did, but also American gangster films do), or subtly place the individual in the social void, and cloud the sense of the real connection with society in his consciousness, degrade and reduce the intellect and reason to impotence, which these relationships reflect and elaborate, finally transforming man himself into an unethical lump of uncontrollable instincts. In relation to children, this is passed off as "respect" for the individual character of the child. But it means, in fact, the renunciation of pedagogy, and it comes, in the best of cases, to reduce young American children to a herd of lonely hysterics who end up following this wrong path often to become gangsters.<ref>https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Gyo%3Frgy-Luka%3Fcs-La-letteratura-sovietica-1955.pdf</ref>

It was important for the (liberal) ruling class to "re-educate" man of the post-war generation by tempering him to a sort of barbarism, to the brutal and merciless imposition of his selfish interests, which necessarily implies a hypocritical attitude as the way to adapt to the [[Social Darwinism|Social-Darwinist]] "struggle for existence". In the field of cinema, this kind of pedagogy necessarily produces movies that either openly preach banditry, gangsterism and murder (such as movies in [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler's]] [[Nazi Germany|Germany]] did, but also American gangster films do), or subtly place the individual in the social void, and cloud the sense of the real connection with society in his consciousness, degrade and reduce the intellect and reason to impotence, which these relationships reflect and elaborate, finally transforming man himself into an unethical lump of uncontrollable instincts. In relation to children, this is passed off as "respect" for the individual character of the child. But it means, in fact, the renunciation of pedagogy, and it comes, in the best of cases, to reduce young American children to a herd of lonely hysterics who end up following this wrong path often to become gangsters.<ref>https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Gyo%3Frgy-Luka%3Fcs-La-letteratura-sovietica-1955.pdf</ref>