Ancient Culture # 8: The Devaluing of Myth and Ancient Text
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With ancient text being the target of SJW’s as they believe every single piece of ancient text should be changed, this is a troubling sign for society. Since SJW’s core beliefs is changing substantial texts to mean something else, destroying the original meaning, the problem of ancient myths, and writing, is then targeted by SJW’s. Hollywood will always try to make sure it can appease a woke audience that doesn’t realize the true meaning behind ancient texts or even bother to do research behind a translation. What is troubling is that a whole generation watching the Iliad on Netflix will think Achilles was black, or race swapping the roles in Dracula, will make it better. And Greek Mythology has no relationship to African Culture.
No, you have just race swapped in order to make the text appeal to the African American community (which do not need coddling at all), but sometimes, ancient texts should represent the time and the original vision the writers intended. While many will say “Homer didn’t write it down, as it was part of the oral tradition, and people changed the original meaning over time,” which comes out to two things. One, that is correct, in its nature, but the problem is trying to race swap original characters doesn’t make it original. That’s a disingenuous argument (a favorite words of mine to describe many modern story tellers).
I want texts to represent an original fictional meaning, not re-interpreted by a society that doesn’t believe in being original. If I’m reading a book by James Baldwin, I expect the characters to be black, because that’s the authors original intent. But James Baldwin would have had a problem with changing famous characters in fiction to appease a phantom audience is pandering. SJW’s will say, “Well that’s because we need to think about everyone, and African Americans are underrepresented in the artistic community.”
As Bill Maher said, “The problem is not that I don’t understand what you’re saying, but what you’re saying is stupid.”
Ancient Texts are supposed to represent a time that has passed, and while many translators think to give a new style to the story, the original meaning should not be changed, nor the original descriptions either. It’s dangerous to change the meaning of an ancient text to appeal and coddle African Americans or any racial demographic. The thing is, ancient text is supposed to represent the ancient era, where times were brutal, and not everyone was nice to each other.
The condition of altering ancient texts and appearances of characters comes with hack Hollywood screenwriters that don’t have the guts to stay with the original meaning the text provided. To stay faithful to the meaning of what a character is or make use of the story to find a narrative meaning in modern adaptation.
It’s okay, I understand that you’re creatively bankrupt Hollywood, just leave the ancient texts alone if you want to destroy something. Make your own art, and characters if you want to be anachronistic. But then, that would mean Hollywood would have to be creative again. And yes, while the feeling of “nothing new gets seen without a big brand behind it” is true to some extent, but it doesn’t mean erasing character’s original skin colors to become woke interpretations of your soft bellied impulses.
But then being creative is hard for writers when they think that copying Stephen King is going to get them famous. Sorry but the line from Chasing Amy is true. “I don’t trace. I give it definition and shading, and only then the drawing only then takes shape.” “No, no, no. You go over what he draws with a pen. That’s tracing.”
It seems like this is true of a modern creative person. Trace over an original, and think it’s yours. Change ancient characters skin color just to appeal to a phantom woke audience. But also in that famous scene Ben Affleck’s character pulls Jason Mewes away and says, “Let me explain the audience theory. If you insult them, you have no audience.”
Again, another trait of Hollywood. Bankrupt ideas and treating the audience like shit. So, if you definitely match that category, you will make it in Hollywood today and ruin as many ancient text as you can.
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