Posted on 12/28/2013 12:45:25 PM PST by VR-21
But, somehow, I doubt Serkis has Winston's grasp of the dialectic...
Who raised you, hippies? No corporation can lawfully make you patronize them. They can’t force you patronize, they can’t levy taxes or fines against you or deprive you of you liberty. A government can do all that.
Good post. The evil corporations guys look at the symptom, not the cause. Without an overweening government to make them huge and suppress competition, without an overweening government to provide guns and police support, without an overweening government to bail them out when they are going broke, they are just another corporation. If the government doesn’t have the power to make it worth buying them off, they don’t get bought off.
“Capitalism run amok can be criticized on this level.”
Capitalism has a hard time running amok without active participation from a government.
So Sméagol/Gollum supports Marxist-Leninism by rewriting one of its most devastating critiques.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIvQXiMVf-Q&t=0m15s
Yeah, let’s how those greedy Hollywood capitalists! Nobody go to their movies!! Nobody buy their DVDs or watch on Netflix. Crush the Hollywood capitalists!
Anyone who wishes to know what Animal Farm is about need only read it. There isn't anything ambiguous about it. And unless Serkis is channeling Orwell through a Ouija board he probably isn't the most reliable source on what Orwell would have written, especially in the face of what he did write. Idiot.
Good example.
“Anyone who wishes to know what Animal Farm is about need only read it. There isn’t anything ambiguous about it.”
Absolutely; it is written so a child could understand it.
One of the influences that is downplayed in Orwell’s writing is his personal experience in the Spanish Civil War. He supported the leftist government by joining the anarchists, and a year later watched them get murdered by their communist brothers in arms in the “civil war within a civil war”. He described the unreal propaganda of the left (describing victories where there hadn’t even been battles, and burying/omitting defeats that boded ill for the future of the left), and he quickly realized that they had no moral high ground in comparison to the military coup.
Individual Mandate.
bkmk
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