Waiting until Dec. 24 so we can watch “A Christmas Carol” starring Alastair Sim. Best one out there.
My Mother Taped Mickey's Christmas Carol off the TV (remember used to need a VHS Tape!) and we used to watch it every year.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmq7ql_1983-mickey-s-christmas-carol_shortfilms
trying to make a buck
You mean, like, with his other hand?
He was demonstrating the sort of literary brilliance - and certainly spiritual conviction - that we simply don’t see anymore in this world.
End of story.
The columnist could have mentioned that it was first published in 1843, since he alludes to schools of thought to set the contextual age that would have produced “Scrooge”.
Wasailing
Watching Duck Dynasty?
He doesn’t seem to address directly the claims it is really socialist.
I do tend to wonder about that view. But sometimes Scrooge was right - why pay more charity when his money has already been taken for it? And indeed that is what happens when taxed - people spend less on charity. Stop the welfare taxes and people start contributing.
“What was Dickens really doing when he wrote A Christmas Carol? Answer: He was weighing in on one of the central economic debates of his time, the one that raged between Thomas Malthus and one of the disciples of Adam Smith.”
What nonsense. The idea that Dickens was directly trying to deal with Malthusian theory is so far out in the weeds as to be laughable. Dickens lived and wrote at a time of social reform in Britain. There were work houses and debtors prisons (of which he knew first hand). His desire (as oft stated in his works and in his personal life) was to improve conditions for those less fortunate (and not part of the landed class).
Modernist critical thinking always makes a mess when trying to analyze writings from today’s understanding.