Why are there so many assassin-for-hire movies?
Given that Hollywood is — and always has been, in effect — an arm of the military for the purposes of large-scale cultural engineering, it's interesting to look at why particular genres might have been created and popularised for said mind-control applications.
They've tried this genre in seemingly every permutation: Men, women, martial artists, explosives exports, kids, guys-who-had-a-change-of-heart-and-want-to-quit-the-business, idiot savants, doofuses-with-hearts-of-gold, goofballs who can't talk to women, you name it.
But WHY do they keep showing us this? Do we really want to see these 'cool' murderers for hire? Is it purely about 'competence porn' where we like seeing a guy sneak past building security and execute someone in their bedroom?
It's pretty depressing if you think about it, and it's not really 'cool' by any means. So what is the social engineering function of it?
My theory
In line with an overall agenda of mass demoralisation (just look around you) I think the reason why they show us these hired-killer movies might be several-fold:
- To shut you up: If you think there are hired killers everywhere you might just bring your neck in and mind your own business. Better not talk in public about how your employer is poisoning the food supply or injecting babies with poison, some 5'9 dude with an oversized head might pop out of your aircon duct and shoot you with an ice pellet of shellfish toxin.
- Reinforce need for law enforcement: If these killers are everywhere, we better defer more power and funding to those 'good guy' three-letter organisations that always roll in at the end of the movie and catch the bad guys. If the CIA or NSA are being naughty, it's usually the FBI.
- To make your evil job seem less evil: This might be the biggest reason, the most insidious, and is the reason I wrote this article. No matter what society-degrading job you have: installing surveillance cameras, lying to children about fake history, adulterating food with poison, all of it is pretty benign when you compare is to murdering someone for money, right?
Now, you might feel a bit guilty when you get home and think that your entire career is a net-negative on society, and that you are quite literally part of the problem but at least you're not doing that... right?
Anchoring works on everything
This same 'anchoring' effect works across the board and by setting the 'outlier' parameters and since we generally try to hover towards the 'middle', can be used to engineer seemingly almost any behaviour. For example:
"I'm not a big coffee drinker, I only have one in the morning and one in the afternoon."
"I drink multiple cups of poison every day."
"I don't watch much TV - only a couple of hours in the evening."
"I voluntarily watch hypnotic brainwashing content daily for hours."
"I'm not really a fan of the Covid vaccine, I only got the 'mandatory' two shots, no boosters."
"I willingly submitted to poisonous 'experimental' injections, under coercion and duress."
"I'm pretty careful with protection, I've only had 2 abortions."
"I have committed infanticide multiple times."
"I don't really believe in debt, I only have one credit card, my car loan, my student debt and my mortgage."
"I am participating in multiple forms of usury, and will continue to for most of (if not all of) my life."
"It's really just about keeping them comfortable: I give patients progressively higher doses of morphine until their heart stops."
"I am a literal murderer for hire."
Assassin movie makes you feel okay about doing your evil job for money
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