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Slack.com slash DHQ. Okay, we're going to talk more today about both the immigration

mess and the mess at the Justice Department and how the government and the press really

silence the voice of the people. But as a guy who has worked in the movie business, has

had movies made and has made my life in the arts, my entire living in the arts, my whole

life, I feel like obligated to say something about the Oscars. The Oscar nominations came

out, I guess, was yesterday. And I feel like I should say something about them. This is

what I have to say. I don't care. I don't care who's nominated. I don't care who wins.

I care very deeply about the arts. I really do. I think the arts are incredibly important.

They're incredibly humanizing and civilizing. They create wisdom. They create the culture.

And even good art that I might disagree with, like this year there was a black paranoia

horror movie called Get Out, which I thought was absolutely delightful and intelligent and

well-made. I think that blacks should make their paranoia into horror movies just like

everybody else and that's what it was. And it's great. But here's the thing. Through

much of the 20th century, the movies were America's central art form by which I mean they were

the way we talk to each other through the arts. And now they're not. Like all art forms

they have run out of steam and when an art form starts to run out of steam and becomes

more a bond, the art form divides into popular products that are kind of shallow, but everybody

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