Hollywood actors to join writers on strike—nothing of value will be lost

At midnight Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of actors got the word to go on strike after negotiations with studios were not successful. Hollywood actors now join writers on the picket line. Writers Guild of America have been on strike for over two months.

Despite the writers' strike, there is still endless content available across thousands of platforms and from the archives of a century of filmmaking that is available to viewers.

This marks the first time both writers and actors are on strike simultaneously since 1960. A strike could devastate the film and television industry, especially in major production hubs, such as Atlanta, London, New York, and Toronto. The quesion, however, is if the nation has any real need of a storytelling machine that has beclowned itself with flops, failures, and a dearth of original ideas for decades.

It's hard to imagine a time when Hollywood was less relevant to American cultural life. The big studios pump out regurgitations of formerly good ideas and story franshises, whipping them into something that is not quite new, not quite old, and definitely not better than the original.