Feature film director, Rene Perez, and visionary voluntaryist, David Rodriguez, joined me for a rollicking and illuminating conversation about the propaganda machine that has become (or always was?) the film industry, and their new project – a modern take on Romeo & Juliet called “Sacred Life”.

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Movie trailer:

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Show notes:

• Origin of collaboration between Rene and David
• Rene’s background as a film-maker
• Turning off the TV- Rene’s awakening
• Engineering via emotions and story-telling
• 1990’s- demoralization/propaganda in movies
• Top-down edicts in Hollywood- villains & heroes
• How does Rene push back against edicts?
• We are a 'McDonald’s culture’
• 1970’s & meritocracy
• Race in movies- Star Wars, George Lucas, and Obama
• Jews in Hollywood
• Taking his kids to see movies
• 90’s- elevating villains to hero status
• Madonna- model for “feminism"
• J-Lo & Hollywood- aging
• Cultural impact of Star Wars- hero’s journey
• Death of art & beauty- demoralization
• Creating solutions w intentional story-telling
• Evil in movies = “We need more government”
• Catastrophic imprinting supplanting possibilities
• “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”
• Movies- most powerful messaging medium
• Rene's & David’s film project narrative- exit & build
• New storytelling with new heroes- voluntaryism, lawful, freedom
• David’s favorite movies- hero journey
• Divide & conquer- fake anti-woke movies
• Top Gun/ Sound of Freedom
• Tax cattle and covert slavery
• Bravery and speaking truth