Countering the narrative

We must build our own world.

The woke mind virus has infected every aspect of Western culture, from municipal libraries to movie studios and global corporations.

It is especially visible in the media. News, current affairs, soap operas, long running TV shows, video games and blockbuster movies; nothing has been spared.

Almost no aspect of Western culture has escaped contamination. Broken people with an absurd adolescent vision will trample over everything from great museums to movies because they have been seized by madness.

They want it all, and they are getting it, especially in the arts and popular media.

The end result? Boredom. And exodus. People are abandoning the mainstream, exhausted with the politicization of everything.

Woke is visibly failing. No one sells more comics, books or films by making the leading character a black, sexually confused, neurodivergent oddball just to make a point. Quite the opposite, as the sales figures often demonstrate.

Audiences are done with it.

And now for something completely different

It is not enough to condemn the cultural vandals. We must build alternatives as some are already doing.

Ordinary people hate politics, and they are angry their entertainment channels have been hijacked by activists.

Within that anger is an opportunity to build something that resonates with an abused public.

We see examples already on Substack of individuals pushing back and producing their own content. They are not waiting for the world to change. They are the change.

Substack came to prominence during the lockdowns when many were desperate to make sense of what had happened to their world, and it has continued that tradition.

Fiction on the other hand tends to do poorly on Substack, although there are writers publishing short stories and serialized works. Perhaps it is not an ideal platform for this.

But waiting for mainstream publishers to move away from Woke is not a workable strategy. There is an incestuous ecosystem currently in place dominating mainstream publishing, and it is very much in the grips of diversity and inclusion and saving the planet and is publishing little of note as a result.

Anyone not conforming to their rules is unlikely to be invited into their world.

The way forward is not to lament the state of the publishing or film industries, but to do our own thing with the tools we have at our disposal.

My plans

My own interests are writing and films, so I will focus on them.

I am exploring creating myself, and I want to join forces with others.

I will continue writing non-fiction articles on Substack. But I want to also produce more fiction.

I have published a few short stories on here; feel free to check them out.

I will publish more in the future.

Here are other things I am doing.

A serialized novel

I am going to write and serialize a novel here on Substack. I intend to develop and write it as I go, out in the open like a lunatic.

This is something I have always wanted to try.

I find this kind of open-ended work helps me explore ideas about the world we inhabit in a different way to articles. It also provides another way to interact with audiences.

The pressure of producing on an ongoing basis helps too. It worked for Dickens, so how hard can it be? 🤓

I would be grateful for any other Substackers to help me promote it to their subscribers when the time comes.

A forthcoming novel on Amazon

I have written a science fiction novel which will soon be available on Amazon Kindle. This is a paid novel for those who wish to support this Substack as an alternative to paid subscriptions.

I don’t have paid subscriptions although I may consider it. I will wait until I have 1000 subscribers first then decide.

I will provide more information on the book soon.

Making films

I also want to explore ideas using film.

It has never been cheaper to make a film. The last few years in particular have seen the emergence of high-quality video and audio equipment at prices accessible to amateurs, the sub-ten thousand bracket certainly.

This is a gamechanger for those interested in making their own films.

My goal is short films for now then work up to feature-length work. Perhaps crowdfunded projects as others are doing.

I am currently working on a short film, and have written a script for a second, more ambitious short requiring a bigger crew.

To that end I am putting together a group of like-minded enthusiasts and hopefully this can mature into something workable.

The goal for next year is to attempt a full-length film. It is early days for this, but the process has begun including a treatment for a script.

Like novel writing, film helps me explore ideas I write about on here except through entertainment. It is a different dynamic and inherently visual. It is all storytelling, whatever the medium.

The film world has been especially hit by DEI thanks to the corporate nature of the big studios who dominate. Most audiences are desperate for a return to normality with entertaining films and good stories.

And we now live in a world with global distribution in some form available to everyone.

Perhaps those of us outside the mainstream are the people to change filmmaking into something audiences want.

This will be me when the authorities finally catch up with me 🧐

When people tell me this is impossible I like to remind them that George Lucas’s early film, THX 1138, had a crew of only 17 people. You can accomplish a lot with the right mindset.

Anyway these are the things I want to create via Substack. A change of pace and of content.

Calling the excluded

No one is looking for a crusade, least of all me. Just something more than trashing the clown show.

I have always wanted to write fiction, and my non-fiction work is more of a means to an end. It lets me explore ideas and get feedback, but it is really fiction I love.

Despite the horrors of the world, and the scale of our decline, there is demand for fictional work in different mediums and the current group of producers are not delivering.

We ourselves must produce and support other producers. We cannot leave the final word to Blackrock and their infatuation with power.

This piece is to draw attention to this and invite comments. What can we do? What are you already doing? Leave a comment and a link to work if you wish. Anything counts, from short stories to movies or even future ambitions.

I intend to keep people informed with my own projects via this Substack.

We will need storytellers and songwriters. We must practice now and produce work, even if its current circulation is modest and lacks the marketing pizazz of the major players.

I am going to be doing this soon. I hope you can join me either as a producer yourself or someone who helps support this new world we can create.

Anyone who feels excluded is welcome. Let audiences decide what works not corporate executives obsessed with DEI or beholden to the bad ideas of megalomaniac billionaires.

They say the best way to predict the future is to create it. So that is what we must do.

I hope you will join me.

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