"Either way, you find very little #nonpartisan depiction of reality, in all its morally ambiguous verity. Instead you get camp: Ideologies plucked from their original formats — internet videos, fringe blogs, cabinet meetings — and flattened into #cosplay and puppetry. For #Hollywood, this is a useful way to flatter viewers, who get to feel above the fray. What’s lost, of course, is any kind of #enlightenment or ethical confrontation, as opposed to mere #voyeurism — any dream of seeing real murkiness, conflict or shades of gray existing within the narrative universe, or within a given character."

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"Either way, you find very little #nonpartisan depiction of reality, in all its morally ambiguous verity. Instead you get camp: Ideologies plucked from their original formats — internet videos, fringe blogs, cabinet meetings — and flattened into #cosplay and puppetry. For #Hollywood, this is a useful way to flatter viewers, who get to feel above the fray. What’s lost, of course, is any kind of #enlightenment or ethical confrontation, as opposed to mere #voyeurism — any dream of seeing real murkiness, conflict or shades of gray existing within the narrative universe, or within a given character."

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/magazine/culture-war-camp-landman-hunting-wives.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GVA.l7mQ.3wyb1WAzYEFb&smid=nytcore-ios-share