If Thursday, August 10, 2023, I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Go back in American history several decades and work related actions, labor strikes, and

somewhere kinds of events took place.

Well, if not week by week, at least month by month and year by year in the United States,

you had big business and you had big labor.

You also had the phenomenon of an industrialized society.

In terms of worldview, one of the things we need to recognize is that vast changes sometimes

come together to shift the entire cultural landscape.

One of those came in the modern age with the development of modern industry, the modern

corporation, and of course what is now basically a comprehensive modern economy.

The economy now bears very little resemblance to the economy 50 years ago, or even 20 years

ago.

And nothing exemplifies that better than what's going on right now in Hollywood, in Los

Angeles, or you might say the news is what's not happening.

What's not happening is the making and writing of streaming television, television in general,

broadcast television.

But it's not just television, it's Hollywood movies as well, even though of course the

two genres have become quite mixed these days in the age of streaming.

That's part of the story.

But what's not going on, for example, is what's not going on in Hollywood.

Big pictures aren't being made, movies aren't being made, streaming series aren't being

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