NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION 1989 — dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik

“Come in, come in, whoever you are!"  Cartoon by Peter Arno, 1949.

So many people inspire me to be nothing like them.

well have you considered that maybe the unstoppable force is in love with the immovable object maybe the reason one refuses to stop and the other refuses to move is because they both long for the collision

Schools didn't sit us down with archival records. They showed us Hollywood. They gave us dramatization in place of documentation. The effect? Generations now equate Spielberg's imagery with unquestionable truth. The film became a mythic anchor, embedding memory through emotion, not evidence. The most unsettling part is they took a real man and wrapped him in a Hollywood-style storyline that blurred fact and fantasy, which is why what's taught in schools or remembered through the film is less true history and more myth-making. It's psychological warfare. When Hollywood scripts become the lens through which children learn about the past, you're not teaching history anymore, you're programming identity. People are conditioned to defend a screenplay as though it were sacred fact. Their very sense of morality, victimhood, and identity is tied to cinematic symbols. That's the power of storytelling when controlled by the few and how memory has been manufactured. The story may be fiction, but the programming is real. This is almost identical to Edward Bernays' method of psychosis...tugging on people's emotions rather than presenting facts. It's the same playbook. Even within the Jewish community, this is absorbed so deeply in their "history" that memorials are built on the back of Hollywood's narrative. Over time, these narratives become the backbone of identity. Not only are they believed, they are passed down, woven into education, ritual, and memory as if they were indisputable fact, a kind of collective neurosis. The world is expected not only to accept the stories but to bend the knee to them, no matter how many cracks appear under scrutiny.

Batman Returns (1992) dir. Tim Burton

Sigourney Weaver tries out the flame thrower for Alien (1979)