Netflix & Kill (The Hot Cut)
From psychoanalysis to autoplay—your subconscious is streaming.
Welcome to The Hot Cut—where pop culture gets sliced, scandal gets spiced, and secrets get exposed.
I’m Lisa T., and this is where satire meets scar tissue.
You didn’t hear it from me… but let’s dive in.
Rotting Brains Since Rabbit Ears
They said TV would rot your brain. Now TV says social media is the problem. And we believe it—because it’s on Netflix.
Isn’t it funny how screens always find a new scapegoat?
Listen to the podcast episode here.
The same medium that once threatened our attention spans is now posing as a concerned parent—offering diagnosis, documentary, and drama about the dangers of dopamine.
And we eat it up… one autoplay episode at a time.
The Bloodline Nobody Talks About
Let’s talk about Marc Bernays Randolph—the original CEO and co-founder of Netflix.
Yes, that Bernays. He’s the great-nephew of Sigmund Freud, and the nephew of Edward Bernays, the godfather of public relations.
Here’s the lineage:
Freud cracked open the subconscious.
Bernays turned it into a sales funnel.
Randolph fed it to a streaming algorithm—and built the machine we now use to dissociate.
This isn’t just an ideological bloodline—it’s a dynasty of psychological control, passed down through media, manipulation, and now… autoplay.
And we’d be remiss not to pause here.
There are quiet whispers—never headline news—of generational abuse and dysfunction within this lineage.
We won’t speculate. But if even a fraction is true?
This isn’t just a legacy of influence. It’s the export of trauma normalization disguised as culture.
Meet the Bloodline
You didn’t ask for a family tree, but we’re trimming the dead branches anyway.
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
The father of psychoanalysis—and the original overthinker.
Freud taught the world that repression rules our lives, that childhood trauma shapes the adult psyche, and that nothing is ever just about what it seems. But he didn’t stop there.
He believed that children had sexual desires for their parents, famously proposing the “Oedipus complex.”
He also believed that little girls felt permanently inferior due to their lack of a penis—what he called “penis envy.”
Fun fact: Freud once said, “A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.”
Another fun fact: He thought children were trying to seduce their parents. He called these impulses “natural.”
His influence on modern psychology is almost as strong as his obsession with the penis.
And yes—in case you’re wondering—this Jewish man was almost certainly circumcised.
Edward Bernays (1891–1995)
Freud’s nephew. The original Mad Man. The ideological godfather of Don Draper.
Bernays took Freud’s theories about the subconscious and weaponized them to sell everything from bacon to feminism to regime change.
He coined the term “public relations” when “propaganda” started getting bad press.
He was hired by governments and corporations alike to shape public opinion—turning democracy into a product and truth into an accessory.
Fun fact: He orchestrated a U.S.-backed coup in Guatemala by branding the elected government as communist… to protect the profits of the United Fruit Company. As in, the original Banana Republic.
In his book, Propaganda (1928), Bernays famously wrote, “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”
If Freud gave us the oral fixation, Bernays turned it into a PR campaign when he successfully marketed cigarettes to women as a form of liberation.
Controlled rebellion in a pack—just one way this man left his mark on the modern Western psyche.
📺 Marc Bernays Randolph (b. 1958)
Edward Bernays’ nephew. The man behind the curtain.
Co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, the platform that now delivers trauma content, pop psychoanalysis, and cultural programming directly to your brainstem.
He didn’t invent the manipulation. He just made it streamable.
Fun fact: Randolph left Netflix in 2002. But the platform’s soul—engineered by a family of subconscious string-pullers—was already online.
These days, Marc Bernays Randolph spends his time on the boards of companies like Looker Data Sciences—a business intelligence firm focused on data analytics—and Chubbies Shorts, perhaps because leisurewear is the final frontier of sexual innuendo.
But let’s be real:
When the co-founder of Netflix moves into data science, you have to wonder… is he still studying what makes people click? Or what makes them crack?
And Chubbies? Really? Freudian slip much? How far is the apple falling from the tree?
We may never know. But the algorithm probably does.
Adolescence: A Case Study in Deflection
Netflix’s new series Adolescence wants us to think it’s holding up a mirror.
Instead, it’s projecting—one of Freud’s favorite tricks.
The show blames social media for the collapse of youth mental health. But it neatly sidesteps:
the collective trauma of pandemic lockdowns,
a decade of rising childhood isolation,
family units hollowed out by binge-consumption, passive parenting, and financial chaos,
a system that numbs children with pills, phones, and identity games before they learn to trust their own instincts.
And now, the same machine that numbed them offers to narrate their pain.
This isn’t storytelling. It’s a confession—delivered by the perpetrator in disguise.
The Algorithm Will See You Now
Netflix isn’t just a platform.
It’s a therapist, a parent, a narrator, a memory-maker—wrapped into one app.
It recreates the old TV experience, but with infinite choices, no commercial breaks, and an invisible remote in the hands of the algorithm.
It doesn’t just entertain. It programs.
And it was built by a man descended from those who believed the human mind could be hacked.
Freud wanted to diagnose.
Bernays wanted to manipulate.
Randolph wanted to monetize.
So the next time a Netflix documentary pretends to care about your kids’ mental health, ask:
Who benefits from this narrative?
What’s been left out?
And who gets to tell this story—and why?
The Final Cut
There’s something deeply ironic—maybe even obscene—about Netflix blaming social media while it quietly remains the most powerful media machine in human history.
It’s not just entertainment anymore.
It’s cultural therapy—with an agenda.
And it’s being guided by the descendants of the men who taught the world how to shape public thought. Three religiously circumcised men helped rewrite modern sexuality, starting with their own bodies—and we’ve been living inside their edits ever since.
Your subconscious is streaming.
And the Freud–Bernays–Randolph bloodline is still directing the show.
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