When Will Hollywood Learn That Wokeism Doesn't Work?

It’s once again “awards season,” the time of year where the entertainment community come together to hardily pat themselves on the back for all they accomplished in the past year.

Growing up, I enjoyed the glitz and glamour of it all. Maybe the past generations just understood the assignment: provide an escape from the rigors of everyday life.

As I got older, the enjoyment evaporated after endless virtue signaling and preachy acceptance speeches. Award shows started to hold the same appeal as a progressive town hall meeting, but with fancier outfits.

As comedian Jerry Seinfeld once hilariously said, who cares about these actors with “their stupid bed-head hairdo mini brain” preening “in these ridiculous outfits like they are senators from Krypton” who act so high and mighty?

But now, I have grown to like “awards season” again, mainly because it symbolizes our national rejection of “wokeism” as peddled by those privileged few which we common folk have come to loathe.

You’d think that the TV and film crowd would have gotten the hint a few years ago when Ricky Gervais excoriated them when he hosted the 2019 Golden Globes. “If you do win an award tonight, don’t use it as a platform to make a political speech. You’re in no position to lecture the public about anything. You know nothing about the real world.”

But, no. For the past few years, not much has changed, except for viewership. For all its talk of inclusiveness, Hollywood seems to intentionally alienate people in droves who can no longer stomach the latest cultural dressing-downs from those least in touch with reality.

Take Hollywood’s most shamelessly self-congratulatory night, the Academy Awards. It once drew over 40 million viewers as recently as 2014. That’s since been whittled down to under 10 million last year, which was a 50 percent from the year before when Kevin Hart was “canceled” for tweets he had written seven years prior.

Apparently, not even those working in Hollywood are immune from Hollywood.

Clearly, industry insiders must be chalking up the poor ratings to the pandemic, and not themselves. This year’s Academy Awards show is shaping up to be the most woke ever given the announcement this week unveiling a trio of hosts.

There’s Wanda Sykes, who once wished kidney disease on the late Rush Limbaugh in an extremely partisan performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Then there’s Amy Schumer, who once spewed that Mississippi Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith had “tiny racist teeth.”

Rounding out the trio is actress Regina Hall, who once kicked off the Oscars by rejoicing the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial during her monologue.

Are you not entertained?

How ironic that an industry founded on creativity has abandoned principles of freedom and independent thought and embraced the stifling conformity that “wokeism” demands. Now, every story must be grounded in reality.

One need only look to the latest Lord of the Rings project from Amazon to see what happens to an ardent fandom when Hollywood’s commitment to the virtues of “wokeism” divides them.

Literally, Hollywood has lost the plot.