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Loved it! BUT it is not that the Deep State controls Hollywood; it is that Hollywood controls the Deep State. The problem is the underlying mythology of the culture, a matrix of beliefs and imagination held together by need, desire, and anxiety. All civilizations have this problem, which is why all civilizations have short life spans. We evolved as high social, small group hunter gatherers -- egalitarian and playful. Of all species we are among the most neotenous -- which means "extended juvenescence" -- we are children until we die. As all children do, we resist the presssure of reality with the pressure of imagination (Wallace Stevens, thank you). But one day, we must wake.

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Julian Macfarlane
Julian Macfarlane

Written by Julian Macfarlane

Journalist media analyst, author. Publishes on evolution, psychology, anthropology, zoology, music, art, neurology., geopolitics,.

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