I'd rather live in a country where people are free to spend and consume than something like Carpenter would have us live in.
Carpenters “linking” didn’t do anything. I am just pointing out that the movie is prescient to today’s situation.
Look at now. Politicians and bankers just want tools for a face saving visit to the polls, but by ALL available evidence any one put in, even on the “conservative” side, continues to legislate against the interests of liberty and the Republic.
No one really, at this point puts up a stink because all of that “consumable” stuff keeping the herd animals happy is kept cheap not by our national free market policies but by offshoring the production away from the effects of the Republics labor, tax, and environmental policies. The money to purchase it is unsustainably cheap, and the historically resultant inflation from that type of policy is kept at bay by absorbing the excess in dark pool financial dealings and a [finite] use of it as many countries reserve currency.
Meanwhile a growing and soon if not already to be majority of the electorate only appears to be satisfied with “obeying”, “consuming” and “sleeping”. Anyone that falls out of the job market is essentially given enough to keep them in chips, brain numbing substances and entertainments (on the backs of the remaining productive no less).
Whether or not it was some “attack on Reagan and free markets” is irrelevant in 2015, today, it looks a hell of a lot like the skull aliens are our politicians, bankers and other policy elites and we are the generally out of it population grinding away under their construct.
I too would like to live in a country where people are free to spend and consume as they want, AND where the burden of those choices does not end up being foisted off on the responsible segment of the population and the market is structured to harvest those same responsible people and process them into the mindless class...