Why hollywood is liberal

Fox eventually snagged the sitcom, which still draws a sizable crowd. Hollywood in thrives on outrage. Voting rights. Trans rights. Body shaming The same holds true for the media. Now, the original blacklist involved significant government pressure as well as the risk of jail time. It might be tricky for Hollywood to one day make a movie about how conservatives were blacklisted during the Trump era.

After all, an honest look at the story would cast them as the mustache-twirling villain. Christian Toto is editor of the conservative entertainment site HollywoodInToto. View the discussion thread. Such higher levels of empathy have been linked to political liberalism. In the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Meyer and her colleagues describe three studies that demonstrate a connection between creativity and "distal imagination"—the ability to picture faraway realms.

They were paired with 97 people who had achieved high levels of success in less-creative fields, including the medical, legal, and financial industries. All were asked to imagine a. Afterward, subjects noted how difficult they had found the experiment, and the extent to which they had been able to immerse themselves in their imaginary worlds. Not surprisingly, the creative experts produced more vivid simulations than their equally prestigious counterparts who were not in the arts. Still, this advantage was limited to writers, directors, and actors, all of whom "have experience in generating and communicating fiction," the researchers note.

While their brains were being scanned using fMRI technology, all participants were asked to imagine both common scenes waking up in the morning and making coffee and uncommon ones waking up in the morning and finding you are of the opposite sex.

When imagining the common scenes, the brain activity of the creative experts and their less-creative counterparts was identical. But when imagining uncommon or distant scenes, the creative folk utilized a separate brain network: the dorsal medial subsystem.

This finding suggests that "creative individuals may be neurally prepared to transcend the here and now by default," the researchers write. Because Hollywood is mostly loyal to profit by creating what is already popular, it does not clearly help any side.

Instead, it feeds into primal human desires and cheapens the culture on all fronts. It is loyal to no agenda. Kat Williams creates spaces for Black voices via filmmaking. Best of CU: Best Sushi. RSS Feed. Submit Search. The Daily Illini. Search this site Submit Search. Opinion Hollywood is not actually liberal.

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