For years, Hollywood came under attack for making sexy, violent or shocking films, and the producers always said they were just giving the public what the public wanted. “We don’t have a message, we have entertainment, and we don’t tell people what to think or what to like.” They got rich doing that, and now…they stand revealed as hypocrites. They are ignoring a good market and, at heavy cost to their pocketbooks, preaching to the electorate.
Does this mean that they have always been preaching to the electorate, glorifying crime, violence, drug use and mayhem?
Perhaps the movie makers never were neutral purveyors of entertainment that the public wanted, but deliberate creators of popular trends and tastes. If so, then the public has been led around in circles by people who are not wily businessmen, but immoral Pied Pipers.
