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I wrote about Adolescence \u2013 or rather the (manufactured) hype surrounding it \u2013 last week. I thought at the time I\u2019d said all that needed to be said. It is just some Netflix show, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then the hype keeps going, and the messaging piles up, and you realize it\u2019s actually a really neat case study in The Way Things Work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a quick catch-up for the fortunate few yet to have Adolescence forcibly crammed in front of their eyes, the show is about a boy who stabs a girl at school. It\u2019s said to raise \u201cimportant questions\u201d about misogyny and toxic masculinity and \u201cthe knife crime epidemic\u201d and social media and blah blah blah blah blah.<\/p>

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Who cares. I haven\u2019t watched it. It doesn\u2019t matter. Like I said, it\u2019s a case study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show was released three weeks ago\u2026then it was everywhere. And I mean everywhere. It was reviewed and praised and praised and reviewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And everyone in those everywhere places called it \u201cimportant\u201d or \u201cvital\u201d or claimed it \u201casked big questions\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You all know what those phrases mean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suddenly, the creators were on Newsnight on the BBC, Good Morning Britain on ITV, and even\u00a0CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what were they talking about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics, obviously. Knife crime and social media and online radicalisation and yet more blah blah blah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The writer essentially said the same thing all the time, begging the government to\u00a0\u201cconsider quite serious change\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the week was over \u2013 as we covered before \u2013 an MP was asking if it should be required viewing in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sky News claimed that\u00a0\u201cpressure was mounting\u201d<\/a>\u00a0for a social media ban. They don\u2019t say from whom, and it doesn\u2019t matter. It\u2019s all a narrative, no more real than the show itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Netflix have since said they will provide it for free to schools to show to young boys:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This all culminated in\u00a0yesterday\u2019s meeting<\/a>, where the creators of the show \u2013 along with representatives from a \u201chealthy relationship\u201d charity Tender \u2013 were invited to Number 10 to talk about \u201cthe influence of toxic material online\u201d and the \u201cserious change\u201d they think the government needs to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Keir Starmer (or the intern running his account) pledged to \u201ctackle\u201d the \u201cchallenges raised by adolescence\u201d in a tweet\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The challenges raised by Adolescence aren’t something we can simply legislate for \u2014 if I could pull a lever to solve it, I would.<\/p>

It’s only by listening and learning from the experiences of young people and charities that we can tackle this.<\/p>

That’s what I’ve been doing today. pic.twitter.com\/bU5ocwpa1T<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) March 31, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re mere inches away from actual legislation based almost entirely on the made-up events of a fictional TV show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are rightly pointing this out as ludicrous \u2013 and it is \u2013 but that\u2019s seeing it backwards. We\u2019re not getting\u00a0laws passed because of TV show<\/em>s, we\u2019re getting\u00a0TV shows made so they can pass laws<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The studio behind Adolescence gets government funding, as does\u00a0Tender<\/a>, the charity that was also invited to that absurd meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Netflix\u2019s finances have been a source of speculation for years, but\u00a0its political associations,<\/a>\u00a0alongside a track record of producing content\u00a0that perfectly fits a mainstream agenda,<\/a>\u00a0really speaks for itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government, charities, corporate media. It\u2019s all one organism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does that mean the show itself was cynically produced to fill a need and sell an agenda?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Absolutely certainly yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\u2019s not to say the actors and writers and celebrity spokespeople don\u2019t genuinely believe in the supposed message. Just that, to paraphrase Noam Chomsky, if they didn\u2019t believe it they would never be where they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re working for a distributor with massive and obvious ties to the Deep State, making a project for a studio that gets government funding, working alongside a charity that also gets government funding all so they can tell the government to take the kind of \u201cdrastic action\u201d they\u2019ve been planning to take the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They might believe they are speaking truth to power. In reality, their sincere-but-shallow ego-driven virtual signaling is being manipulated so they will tell power\u00a0exactly what it wants to hear<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s like wheels thinking they move the car against its will, when anyone watching the machinery from the outside can plainly the whole point of the car is turning the wheels to make itself move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This kind of compartmentalization is how the machinery works, and it\u2019s why it\u2019s largely pointless to ever attack actors or celebrities as Deep State assets. Most of them probably are, but the vast majority\u00a0don\u2019t know that they are,<\/em>\u00a0and the people either willing or able to make that realization were weeded out a long time before they got famous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now comes the win-win-win of it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cast and crew get fame and acclaim. The studio get profit and kudos. The government get their new law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hype around\u00a0Adolescence<\/em>\u00a0is not new or even especially exceptional, but it is so transparent it offers a useful insight. Like an underwater aquarium, one of those glass-sided ant farms or those cadavers that have wax pumped into their veins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It let\u2019s us see inside a little deeper than usual, and show\u2019s us how the machinery works.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>