In4ser
Junior Member
It's not just European soft power but all over the West. Even in the US that art and entertainment are being rotted away. That's a big part of the reason why Asian media popularity (i.e. Anime & K-Dramas) is on the rise.
Look at the movies in the past few years compared to 10-15 years ago. Disney and Amazon have become unimaginative trash with their big hits in Marvel or LOTR being bland cash grabs using existing IPs. It's now all content meant for consumption where they can harvest data and views not the promotion of beauty, meaning, or even pleasure. It's just mind-numbing crap many of which are based on low-cost crowdsourcing (i.e. reality tv or youtube creators) and/or algorithmic productions that have little critical or thought-provoking value. It's all a cookie-cutter formula or using remakes, reboots, or spinoffs to get a quick buck and move on to the next distraction of the bread and circus to keep people zombified enough to keep subscribing.
The excessive focus on cultural power over other aspects of society and its products still being trash is a sign that people are falling into decadence from civilization. I'm not worried about Western "soft power" in the long run being used against China but more as means to control its own people to keep them docile and numb with propaganda like SJW and being the superheroes saving the world.
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