[ExI] Avatar: misanthropy in three dimensions

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Sun Jan 10 00:12:44 UTC 2010


On 1/10/10, Lee Corbin wrote:
<snip>
>  I don't know. People growing up today, unless they're of
>  an especially thoughtful variety, are surely being overwhelmed
>  with all these anti-tech and anti-progress memes, just as
>  the reviewer says. The media and the left-culture has already
>  turned two generations of people against corporations (and
>  by default therefore towards pro-government solutions), so
>  what else is new. Yes, I'd agree, however, that the politics
>  is not the first thing that strikes one about the movie.
>
>


Nit-pick. Yes, people have been turned against corporations and more
to pro-government solutions. But the problem in the US is that the
corporations have become the government. So the mass of the US people
who are rapidly becoming the poor and / or unemployed have to find a
different government to be pro-.

BillK



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