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I recently looked at a list of all the new Hollywood-created movies coming out in 2025. I even showed it on my YouTube channel a few weeks back.

Of the around 50 movies on the list, about 40 were reboots, remakes, sequels, or spin-offs of an existing IP.

Of the 10 left, around 5 or 6 of them were based on already-known historical events or characters or featured already-well-worn tropes like werewolves or racecars.

As a man who’s been watching movies for half a century, I can tell you that we’ve never seen anything like this.

A few days ago I took a break from my work and wanted to distract myself. I, very unwisely, chose to watch about 15 or 20 minutes of a new movie that came out a few weeks back.

This is almost always a mistake; you need to stick with movies made way before 2017 if you want to see a good movie. But sometimes, maybe once a year, I’m willing to give a modern-day horrible woke movie made by Hollywood a chance, because I’m stupid.

Anyway, this movie was called “My Old Ass.” Yep, that’s the title. It’s a chick flick about a teenage girl who meets her future self. The only reason I decided to try it was because Aubrey Plaza is in it and she’s one of the few female actors/comedians I think are funny.

The first 20 minutes of this movie, before I predictably shut it off in disgust, follow three teenage “girls.”

I put “girls” in quotes because, fascinatingly, it portrays these girls not as girls, but as boys. Modern-day left-wing culture has almost completely masculinized women now, and this is yet another symptom.

Here’s what I mean.

All three teenage girls in this movie were dressed in big, baggy sweat tops and sweat pants. They are all average-looking (on purpose) and have messy, short haircuts. They regularly call each other “bro” and “dude” and “asshole.” They have sex not with men, but with other girls.

In one scene, they’re all squatting and peeing in the forest, all sitting next to each other. While they’re peeing, they laugh stupidly like Beavis and Butt-Head and shove each other while pissing, causing them to pee all over the place. This is boy behavior.

Here’s the kicker; guess what the lead girl’s name is?

Elliot.

There are many more examples in this 20-minute segment I watched of a movie about women, made for women, and written, directed, and produced by women.

Last month I was talking to a friend of mine in the comic book industry. He was giving me all of the stats about how comic book sales in the Western world have declined in the past 20 years. Crazy shit, like 60-80% drops in comic book sales of American comics.

Overall comic book sales have actually increased in the West.. but guess what? These increases are all from manga, from Japan. But the big comic book brands like Marvel and DC have been getting absolutely slaughtered, even when the Marvel movies were very popular.

When I asked him why they had such a horrible decline in sales, he said something I’ve heard from others; it’s because the characters and storylines in the American comics all became woke and left-wing about 10-15 years ago. Race-swapping longtime characters to make them black, Hispanic, or Asian. Gender-swapping longtime characters from men to women. Making straight characters gay. Showing strong powerful women and weak or evil men. Introducing overweight superheroes. And on and on. And by the way, the guy telling me all of this was is big left-winger who hates Trump, so even left-wing people are seeing how bad this shit is.

There’s a big YouTuber named Rick Beato. He’s a musician and music expert who interviews rock stars and stuff like that. He’s posted a whole series of videos showing, with scientific analysis, why modern-day music is objectively and demonstrably worse than music from just a few decades ago.

It’s very interesting. Chord progressions, melodies, and harmonies are simpler compared to older music. Overuse of autotune (even when you think it isn’t there). Something called “grid-locking” that kills the natural timing variations of music and a human feel. Songs written to a preset formula instead of expressions of art. Real instruments being replaced by digital samples and loops. And on and on. Go check out some of his videos; you’ll get a real education on why modern-day music actually does suck, objectively, instead of people like me thinking it sucks just because I’m an old man.

Here’s something this old man can tell you about modern-day music: it has sounded exactly the same since about 2008 or so, with no evolution or change since then, at least not that I can detect.

See, 1950s music sounds VERY different than 1960s music. 1960s music sounds VERY different than 1970s music, which sounds VERY different than 1980s music. Shit, even music from the early 1980s sounds VERY different than from the late 1980s. Even 1990s and early 2000s music had its own distinct sound (though, to be fair, it was in the 1990s when the distinctiveness started to fade).

But if you play a few random Top 40 songs from 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2025, they’re all going to sound about the same with no major differences. (I’m betting that music in 2030 will sound about the same too.)

Don’t believe me?

Try it and you’ll see. Unless you’re a real audiophile or music enthusiast, you’re not going to notice much of a difference. I certainly don’t hear any.

Remember TV shows in the 1980s or 1990s? Oh man, what a time to watch TV!

The 80s was great but in the 1990s, sci-fi TV was at its absolute height. You had THREE Star Trek shows and they were all good; The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager (not quite as good as the other two but still decent). You had Babylon 5 which was even better. On top of that, you had X-Files, Stargate SG-1, Farscape, Buffy The Vampire Slayer (not my kind of show but people liked it), Sliders, and on and on.

How about TV shows in the 2000s? Fuck, you had Sopranos, The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Lost (my favorite TV show of all time), West Wing, 24, The Office, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, The Sheild, Dexter, House, and on, and on, and on. Then in the early 2010s we had shows like Game of Thrones, Black Mirror, True Detective, and a few others.

It was a cornucopia of awesomeness.

How about today? What awesome TV shows do we have today?

Well, today in 2025 we have great TV shows like….

Like…

Um…

Uhhh….

Well, there’s…

Uh…

Mandalorian?

No, that sucks now. (And was it great to begin with? Not really.)

Uhh…

Um…

Better Call Saul?

No, that’s been over for three years now.

Uhhhh….

Hm.

When discussing the collapse of the West, I usually talk about economic, political, and fiscal collapse. But I’ve mentioned cultural collapse which is also happening as well.

You know what? I think the cultural collapse has already occurred. I think Western culture has already collapsed and it’s now dead.

Oh yeah, it’s still there. It’s not gone. You can point at this big husk of Western “culture” and say there it is, like with cheeseburgers and basketball and Taylor Swift and the eleventh Saw movie (yes, the eleventh).

But Western culture as compared to what Western culture was just 20+ years ago… I think it’s already done and dusted, rotting in the coffin.

The only quality Western culture left (barring rare and unusual exceptions to the rule) is movies, music, comics, books, art, and TV shows from a few decades ago and older. That means culture today is gone.

Just a thought.

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