Woke Hollywood cuts the nation a break - and cancels itself

New York Post Reports: Hollywood’s actors have joined its writers on strike. It’s the first time both have walked out at once since 1960. Maybe they’ll learn something in their time off — and maybe the country could use a break from them.

The movie business has been disrupted in recent years from all sides. More competition has driven changes to what we watch and how we watch it. With streaming services, bigger flatscreens and faster broadband, there were fewer reasons to leave the couch.

Streamers now offer a broad menu of foreign-made content. Gen Z viewers spend more time with immersive video games and personalities on YouTube and Tik Tok, and less watching TV and movies. All of this was accelerated by the pandemic decimating the reeling movie-theater business.

Through it all, Hollywood has been its own worst enemy.

Moviegoers like superhero movies, name-brand franchises and Pixar cartoons? Inundate them with so many sequels, of such declining quality, that viewers tune out. #MeToo scandals reveal the industry is overrun with sexual predators protected by an insular liberal elite?

Overcompensate by turning casting and programming decisions into a festival of “representation”-focused identity politics and ham-fisted leftist agitprop.

If your creative class is churning out content this devoid of creativity and alienating half the audience in the process, you may as well replace them with machines.