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Well... The "nameless man" slaying the dragon queen after her fiery rage destroyed a group of people and a place of community isn't exactly a unique story, but I guess that doesn't dismantle your point.
Star Wars is part disclosure. GoT was modeled after a very old group of stories, stories that are retold in many different ways and from different perspectives. Come to think of it, I guess that also makes GoT part disclosure...
Yes. And the Avengers. SHIELD compromised by Hydra. The ceiling in Asgard that falls and reveals a hidden history.
James Joyce somewhat coined the term "epiphany" and that is an important concept that people aren't really educated about.
An epiphany, as I'm sure you know, is the moment you have a realization. But, it happens on a biological, microscopic level. There are actually physical changes in the synapses and network, as a whole, when you have an epiphany.
You can study and understand what causes epiphanies and utilize this in your own personal life.
This is what Hollywood will be removing. It is a defining feature of art. It's what makes art great.. the ability for an artist to transfer their own epiphany onto others.
What we will see is that the epiphany generating art will continue to be sabotaged and be forced into only using anti-epiphany tactics, like canned laughter around unfunny political slogans.
"Masterpieces" will soon have no point, at all, unless it is aligned with propaganda and anti-epiphanic tactics.
A lot of shows/movies aren't accessible these days for good reason. Cinema is littered with disclosure or at least a retelling of ancient stories, stories which better describe our past than "Science" and "History", in their modern, consensus-machine capacities.
The thing is, the epiphany range is generally out of their reach anyway, largely because the requisite knowledge is hidden behind layers of propaganda and population-wide defense mechanisms that well-poisoned a lot of modern understandings. I'm afraid that if most people don't opt to let go of what they think they know, the epiphany state (which has many names) will never cross them. What first has to be done is a peeling back of the layers that prevent such a scenario.
The chilling part of this is that "revolution" isn't even necessary. They just need to learn how to forego compliance. If they can manage that, then it can become clear that the king was naked all along. By my measure, I think our best chance is just berating them until they fall in to a cognitive dissonance spiral, question everything they know and then figure out how to stand up for themselves. Only then will the propaganda be useless.
A questioning state is a good start but a perpetual state of confusion is bad... so there's a balance there, for sure.
Our education systems are being exploited in such a way that I believe people are being trained to be confused so that they are forced to trust authority.
So long as questioners are untrusting of cabal authority, they stand a chance.
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