I think Steve Carell is pretty funny, and I watched every episode of "The Office" until he left-- but the trailer for his new series was so awkwardly not-funny, that it was very apparent the show was only greenlit due to the rampant Trump Derangement Syndrome going on at Netflix. Turns out, the whole show is as terrible as the trailer was, to the point where even Leftist critics don't like it-- here is a review example.

Interestingly, that review reveals the show was made due to reactions to Trump's "Space Force" announcement on Twitter. But Twitter ruthlessly censors Conservatives via shadow-banning and other means-- so it was the Left making fun of something, and mistaking their echo chamber for a reflection of a broader reality. The show's lack of substance also shows that the only reason they made fun of "Space Force" to begin with, was because it was Trump's idea. All of this reminds me of Google's "search quality evaluators", and the prediction I made in a blog post about that topic.

In other news, this is very interesting. There really is a "masters of the universe" thing going on, where a small handful of people are controlling the discourse.

I keep hearing Americans reference a web site called "TikTok", which seems to be some weird cesspool of narcissism. I looked it up, and it's Chinese: owned by a one hundred and forty billion yuan company called "ByteDance". I'd be surprised if it wasn't directly controlled by the CCP, as a way of getting Americans to do their social media posting there. But as usual, no one does their homework before they start using a new web site...

Finally and on that note, the average American family has been watching sixty six hours of television per week during the so-called "pandemic". My household watches zero hours of television: my kids and I have a couple of YouTube channels we like, and that's about it. If you really, seriously sit with a note book and break down the content in any given episode of a television show, or a single commercial segment, it's really eye opening how many agendas are being force-fed to you.