When will the Hunger Games Start?

[2manydegrees]

I was struck with a memory of the first "Hunger Games" movie.

This memory came while I was wondering about how foolish and corrupt Washington D.C. and the media seem to me. These are actually my people- I'm a multi-degree former Democrat.

I was thinking about how to tell folks in the academic and urban bubble what they look like to folks who live and work where I live and work. Maybe I could help them understand why much of the country is so disgusted by our government and much of media which purports to cover our government.

The movie has the working-class game contestants encountering scene after scene of grotesque displays of abundance. Moving around the banquets and extragance are grotesque, intentionally repulsive, costumed figures. All are living in oblivious enjoyment of their decadence.

Do the people in the white house, congress and the newsrooms understand that we see them that way?

Do they know that we watch the news and see what Katniss Everdeen saw as she entered the Capitol?

Could we show them? If we showed them, could they see?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“ Do the people in the white house, congress and the newsrooms understand that we see them that way?”

The better question is: do they care?

Of course they don’t. They don’t think you or I…or even tens of millions of us, can do anything about their corruption, their self-serving extravagance or their power to continue it for their own families forever. They simply see us as their uncultured slaves.