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#JohnCena Winning at #MITB Shows the #WWE Youth Movement is a Myth

Posted: July 7, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
7/7/2014

3, 5, 7, and 10 years ago the mid carders and jobbers on the main roster of the WWE were five to ten years younger than they are now. That is all the youth movement that WWE has allegedly been going through for the last three years means. Nothing more, nothing less.

Vince McMahon has no faith in anyone under 32 currently on the WWE roster. The arenas can be packed with fans chanting their hearts out for Dolph Ziggler, Bray Wyatt, Dean Ambrose, and Cesaro but none of them have been with WWE for more than ten years, none of them were in WWE during the Attitude Era, none of them were in WWE when Vince McMahon was young and willing to take risks.

WWE will not take the risks that the fans are dying to see because Vince McMahon is not responsible to the fans in the arenas, he only answers to the stockholders.

By the way, have the internet fans completely turned on Adam Rose yet after being ga ga for him the first two weeks of his act just like Brodus Clay in 2011? Thought so.

Daniel Bryan is going to be out for an extended amount of time with a neck injury. Vince McMahon recently lost $300 million in one day. Someone needs to be a transitional champion for Brock Lesnar who is several levels above rumored to be having a lengthy run with the WWE Title starting at Summerslam. To me this sounds like the perfect time to give a young guy a two month run with the big belt(s) to see what he can do with it.

Instead John Cena got his 15th WWE Title win, yahoo.

Cena is a money man, he is a top guy. But if WWE was having a youth movement as so many employees and mark fans of WWE have been saying for the past few years, then someone other than John Cena or Randy Orton would have won the title at #MITB. Instead the people who should have been winning the title were in a secondary number one contender match. That sounds like WWE in a nutshell since 2002.

Now John Cena is on the road to dropping the belt to Brock Lesnar at Summerslam. John Cena? Brock Lesnar? 2014? Youth movement? Sounds more like business as usual.

Formally Studying the #Art of #Film & #Video Made me Less of a Cynical Critic

Posted: July 6, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
7/5/2014

While getting my BA I took a decent amount of film classes. Between film, television, and video studies I took eight classes that focused on the history of or making of the electronic visual medium(s).

I used to be quite the amateur, wannabe, cynical critic of movies. I assumed that knowing the history, terminology, etc would make me an even sharper critic since I would have actual knowledge to go with my sarcasm and self-proclaimed high level of taste. Instead the opposite happened.

Learning about the visual art of film making from misé en scene, cinematography, editing, set design, rule of thirds, set design, and the history of film from Edison and the Lumiere Brothers to the first talkies to the second golden age of American film in the 1970s gave me a true appreciation for almost all films and major motion pictures, even the bad ones. I really grew to appreciate the effort that goes into making a movie/television show.

That doesn’t mean that I confuse shit for steak, but I often see the good in the bad films, and rather than spend time, effort, energy, and emotion throwing shade at a lackluster film, I just follow the “if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all” paradigm.

I was and still am completely blown away by how much goes into making a movie. Even bad movies, even Michael Bay movies.

I thought studying film would turn me into a film snob who only liked avant-garde, black and white, indie flicks.

Instead my taste in film didn’t really change at all. In fact, the blockbuster movies I tend to see in movie theaters, I came to enjoy even more. Why? Because film is a visual medium. Big budget blockbusters are basically 100% tailored to be visual stimulation. Heaven knows most of them aren’t going to pull on the emotional strings based on their script(s). When I learned that nothing that appears on-screen of a film’s final cut is an accident, my appreciation and fandom grew.

My educated eyes allowed me to be more easily sucked into James Bond and comic book blockbuster movies, rather than more skeptical of them.

What I really learned in studying the history and processes of film, television, video production, directing, editing, cinematography, script writing and acting besides the terminology is an appreciation of each. That is why when I read cynical reviews online and in print all I see is bitter, childish, ego centered pouting by a failed artist/creator who now judges others. It’s why all of the film reviews I’ve posted on this blog have been pretty positive even though I have seen and written about some pretty underwhelming films.

I encourage anyone reading this to take a film history or art of film and video class. It will literally change the way you see what you see when you look at a screen, and that is a good thing.

#Facebook’s Unauthorized Experiment on It’s Users Provides a 101 Lesson in #SocialConditioning

Posted: July 4, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional, Stimulus Space Response
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by @anarchyroll
7/3/2014

Social network sounds so much more appealing than electronic social emotional psychological experiment platform.

It was recently revealed that in 2012, Facebook manipulated the news feeds of just under 700,000 users, in order to measure the effects the news feed changes, on the mood(s) of the user(s).

The exact number of users who were unknowingly experimented on is 689,003. The exact amount of time was one week. Facebook showed less (than) positive posts from both friends and publication providers. Facebook did not get the consent of the users to do this experiment.

Facebook has both apologized, and offered no apologies for conducting this unauthorized psychological experiment.

Me personally, I find something like this to be disgusting and despicable. This is also a great learning lesson on a variety of levels. Let’s focus on how the results of the experiment show what social conditioning is.

Social conditioning is how we learn to think, perceive, and act through the media (movies, television, music, magazines, newspapers, social media websites/platforms, etc).

Facebook proved to themselves and to the world that social conditioning is a very real, very applicable, very effective social-emotional concept. Social conditioning shapes all of us, myself very much included. Facebook itself can be considered one big social conditioning machine.

It was also learned in the experiment that emotions are contagious. That people can in mass be manipulated to feel happier or sadder. What are the implications of this? What other large companies have performed experiments like this in the past? In the present?

I’m not going to bring this article down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole. There are simply questions worth asking of ourselves internally as well as the external world around us. How much of what we think and feel is rooted in our own personal identity, integrity, character, and principles? How much of our identity, values, and consent has been manufactured?

Think about it. Be aware of it.

What is “it”? It in this case would be the non material aspects of what makes you up as a person. Your thoughts, feelings, and so on. Do you think, perceive, and act based on what you internally believe? Or are you being so manipulated by the world around you that you have no identity that isn’t a corporate brand or group think produced? No one is above being asked that question, especially not yours truly.

Think about it. Be aware of it.

 

The Cure for Cancer is Being in the 1%

Posted: July 3, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
7/3/2014

Nothing quite says 1% like CEO of the biggest bank in America. That is the title held by Jamie Dimon (pictured above).

Jamie Dimon is the CEO of JPMorgan Chase and one of the most brilliant economic minds in the world.

JPMorgan Chase was a beneficiary of the TARP bailout following the 2008 economic collapse. Dimon and Chase were also at the center of the London Whale economic scandal in 2012.

Dimon and Chase took billions of dollars from the government when they didn’t need it, then turned around and used it to fund the same type of reckless gambling that was responsible for the economic collapse. If that doesn’t symbolize American greed and the 1% I don’t know what does.

Jamie Dimon may be a symbol, but he is also a human being. A human being who has been diagnosed with throat cancer.

Dimon wrote in a memo that his prognosis is excellent. The cancer was caught early, the treatment plan is all set up, he won’t even have to miss work. Of course, because he has the best healthcare money can buy and then some.

I wonder if the doctors will be injecting cash directly into the tumors.

I do hope this experience will change Mr. Dimon. I hope it will affect him. I hope his paradigm will shift dramatically. Cancer is still cancer, even for a wealthy white man. I’m sure he will do serious thinking, reflecting, and planning during his treatment sessions. Hopefully he will use his massive influence on the world to do something other than use money to make money. Hopefully.

#WorldCup2014 will be my Public Fútbol Viewing Debut

Posted: July 1, 2014 in Anarchy Journal Constitutional
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by @anarchyroll
7/1/2014

I will be watching the United States versus Belgium match in the World Cup in public tomorrow. The situation calls it. The event deserves to be watched in the public sphere with a large group of people.

I have never watched soccer at a bar, house party, or with more than one other person before for more than just a few minutes.

America has finally gotten soccer/fútbol to a point of social relevance. There are festival size public gatherings to watch the games in each of the three major media markets in the United States (NY, LA, CHI).

Disney and ESPN have been able to use their hype machine and production values to get enough people to care about the United States Men’s National Soccer Team. Having studied television, film, and video production I have so much respect for way the World Cup has been presented as visual art of the highest level. It really has been something to behold.

I played soccer as a youth for five years both indoors and outdoors. I loved playing goalie indoors and sweeper outdoors. My inner child is happy that soccer is becoming mainstream.

Maybe I’ll check out a Major League Soccer game this year…

 

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves…

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