Saw First Movie In Years (Vanity)

And an observation, who goes without years watching a movie?

Are you talking about watching movies or going to a theater? I agree with you that torrent and the like are stealing, however, the last movie we saw in a theater was the True Grit remake in 2010, and we don't feel like our lives are empty.

Movies are played at ear-splitting sound levels such that dialogue is unintelligible and our heads ring for hours after leaving the theater. Philosophically, we don't like funding those who work for our destruction. Picking our battles, we don't have Netflix or Hulu, but we do have Amazon Prime.

We get movies from the library, occasionally buy a dvd, or see them on Amazon Prime.

Yes, my question could be clearer—watching at all, such as at home, and watching at the theater. I’d like both. We have Cinamark theatre with stadium seating, very nice, comfortable, but yes, even with month membership, a bit pricey. At home we have almost the same and can view on whole wall screen. Sound not as good in current setup, but that is fixable.

I checked out the jacket copy at the bookstore, and it is true that the copy refers to D’Souza’s “revisionist” history.

Here’s the definition of historical revisionism from Wikipedia:

In historiography, the term historical revisionism identifies the re-interpretation of the historical record. It usually means challenging the orthodox views held by professional scholars about a historical event, introducing contrary evidence, or reinterpreting the motivations and decisions of the people involved.

The problem is that the version most of the public has now is not held by scholars but is promulgated politically by the Democrat Party. So D’Souza’s book is not revisionism in the historigraphic sense but a correction of several widely held lies, all making the Dem Party look good instead of bad.

The word also has connotations for those of use who lived through Communist revisionism, which tried to paint the growth of communism in a more favorable light, with less stress on revolution.

Strangely, the last sentence of the jacket copy presents the book accurately.

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