I said this in the 90s, but no one would listen. ;) Anyway, it's not that there was anything wrong with the X-Files per se -- at it's best, it was very entertaining. But it did kinda promote a certain way of seeing the world......
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So the assassination attempts in the 60s that didn’t see proper justice had no role? Nixon getting pardoned for his BS had no role? COINTELPRO against the Black Panther movement had no role? I don’t think the issue was the XFiles. I think our racist government kinda made this all happen.
jul 28, 2025, 2:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Our trusted institutions and supposed sources of truth actually lying to us may have also had something to do with it 🤔
jul 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ve loved the show but it has aged like milk on a hot day 😬
jul 27, 2025, 8:03 pm • 1 0 • view
So much of what's going on today is modeled after cheezy plot devices.
jul 28, 2025, 4:58 pm • 0 0 • view
💯 exactly. House of Cards seems to have taught a generation that politics is just a dirty game. West Wing tried to expose the nobility of the profession, but HoC implanted deep in the imaginations of the far right. Our media will continue to shape our culture... for better or worse.
jul 28, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
and 24, too
jul 28, 2025, 1:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought it parodied stuff that had been around for a long time - UFOs, Bigfoot, ancient astronauts, political conspiracies, etc., etc. That stuff was a big deal in the 1970s. (Maybe because of the real conspiracy of Watergate?)
jul 27, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
I think mostly we are seeing the effects of Glen Beck, Alex dipshit and their ilk, not Scully and Mulder.
jul 27, 2025, 7:58 pm • 3 0 • view