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Cinemas Sell Mindless Distractions to Exhausted Workers

The entertainment industry manufactures cheap, flashy distractions for the exhausted working class. UAE cinemas just released a brand new slate of heavily marketed corporate films. Audiences can eagerly consume recycled Hollywood garbage like the live-action Moana remake. They can numb their brains with predictable, generic action thrillers and lazy horror sequels. Media monopolies pump out endless, creatively bankrupt content to keep you completely pacified.

Paying for Escapism

Workers suffer through agonizing, soul-crushing labor all week long. They willingly pay exorbitant ticket prices just to escape their miserable reality briefly. The studios extract billions of dollars by recycling the exact same tired formulas. They refuse to fund original art that challenges the grim status quo. They prefer you sit quietly in the dark, chewing popcorn and forgetting your struggles.

The entertainment machine wants you docile and dumb. Read the brutal cultural truth at The WAU.

Author: Amita Kalsi   

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