The New Messiahs...

It seems every time there is a turmoil, there is a breed of people racing to become the "leaders" to guide the lost masses to a safe haven.  Nothing wrong with that in principle but unfortunately, a lot of times, these people seem to be merely preying on distressed folks, trying to sell them a dream of salvation...  in exchange for their hard earned money...

Manifestos explode all over the place, making outrageous claims, people become overnight experts and present models that will save the entire industry, most of it under ludicrous claims or poorly thought out opinions...

Most of these require your financial support, often only to prove that it works...


I am doing a lot of research these days in order to find a solution that works in light of all that is happening and it seems to me that if you do not subscribe to a specific model or view, or if you point out flaws, you are automatically assaulted while the ones selling the models are hailed as experts and messiahs yet no one has anything concrete to show for themselves - their argument is resuming itself to: give me your money and I'll show you it works - or something to that effect... For me, it feels like people are preying on desperation and a lot of people have left their critical sense at the door.  Which tends to happen when people are afraid.  They want to feel safe again and are willing to follow anyone with a glimmer of an answer.

Every discussions (almost) are shot down by a loudmouth who claims to have a plan - but it always involves either giving them money or hare brain schemes that make no business sense whatsoever...

When did we fall so low as filmmakers? Is that a side effect of the democratization of the tools? Are we a bunch of loudmouthed morons now?