There is one thing in particular about the writers' strike that has made me wonder again and again: either these people are unbelievably stupid or something else has been happening, i.e. the whole thing was staged.
Anyone with an IQ higher than that of a turnip knows you never go against something like a huge corporation unless you are dealing from a position of power. This can be public support, financial necessity, whatever.
But it should have been obvious they weren't. Feminism, diversity...it has all cost the corporations billions. Failure after failure, the ruin of popular franchises, the list is endless. The future has also been ruined- there is NOTHING the corporations and the ones running them can ever do to regain my goodwill, we are enemies for all eternity. They started this, they cannot sue for peace just because they are losing.
Now the corporations can smile and say to these people that they sure don't have the public behind them. Overall this strike has dispelled any illusions about any power the writers have. The writers have come out of this worse off. Were they so unaware of reality that they failed to realize this? Or, again, is something else going on here?
