[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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