The Media Brainwashes You at Every Opportunity

Last night, I watched The Knowing — an older movie from 2009 with the theme of aliens and the apocalypse.

Surprisingly, I did not choose the film, but I enjoyed it, even though I am pretty sure I slept horribly because of it.

As the movie progressed, the lead character, Nicolas Cage, was stressed out. He had just figured out a puzzle, and he knew that something bad was coming, long story short.

At one point in the movie, he was carrying around a bottle of whisky and would pour himself a full cup of whisky or drink from the bottle.

As someone who has decided never to touch the poison again, I found this the most disturbing point of the movie.

Not the apocalypse, not the whisper people, not the aliens, the booze.

It was the only real and tangible thing about the movie we see happen daily.

Then there is Hollywood normalizing that when you are stressed, almost all movies have the main character increase their booze intake.

In turn, making someone who might have a problem watch this behavior being normalized on the big screen. Yes, I know that movies are not real; we all do, but when we have an issue and want justification…