RBM
10-10-2009, 02:50 PM
Capitalism: A Movie Critique (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.) by Stoneleigh:
For those who haven't seen Capitalism: A Love Story, I suggest that you do. There are many eye-opening moments, and much material that humanizes the crisis we are facing even as it reveals how dehumanizing our system has become.
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Her closing:
Finally, Moore has a significant blindspot with regard to the current American administration. He paints Barack Obama as a socialist and a hero, apparently without recognizing that this administration says one thing, but does the exact opposite. Mr Obama, who appears to believe his own propaganda, has effectively been bought and paid for by Wall Street, and the revolving door between investment banking and the treasury department continues to turn. We are at or near the end of a long sucker rally that has clouded the judgement of the population with feel-good sentiment. That has allowed them to be comprehensively fleeced in their sleep, even as they dreamed of green shoots of recovery. They will be waking up soon, and they will realize that this administration has accelerated the practices of the old one. That will be a dangerous time indeed.
Most on this board seem to see the world as 'Us' and 'Them'. A consequence of this is to allow various kind and levels of predator/prey/both dynamics to develop. Weather it be Africa, Europe or the US. I suspect more of this kind of dynamic to continue to occur globally. In the US, presently, look to the gov/corporate versus electorate/market dynamics.
The inter-sovereign game is already afoot; see China's moves to contract for natural resources that will not see the light of day of any global market.
It has been said that the only way humanity will be reconciled with itself is for it to experience a global malignant invasion on ET's. I'm not sure that would even do it.
For those who haven't seen Capitalism: A Love Story, I suggest that you do. There are many eye-opening moments, and much material that humanizes the crisis we are facing even as it reveals how dehumanizing our system has become.
...
Her closing:
Finally, Moore has a significant blindspot with regard to the current American administration. He paints Barack Obama as a socialist and a hero, apparently without recognizing that this administration says one thing, but does the exact opposite. Mr Obama, who appears to believe his own propaganda, has effectively been bought and paid for by Wall Street, and the revolving door between investment banking and the treasury department continues to turn. We are at or near the end of a long sucker rally that has clouded the judgement of the population with feel-good sentiment. That has allowed them to be comprehensively fleeced in their sleep, even as they dreamed of green shoots of recovery. They will be waking up soon, and they will realize that this administration has accelerated the practices of the old one. That will be a dangerous time indeed.
Most on this board seem to see the world as 'Us' and 'Them'. A consequence of this is to allow various kind and levels of predator/prey/both dynamics to develop. Weather it be Africa, Europe or the US. I suspect more of this kind of dynamic to continue to occur globally. In the US, presently, look to the gov/corporate versus electorate/market dynamics.
The inter-sovereign game is already afoot; see China's moves to contract for natural resources that will not see the light of day of any global market.
It has been said that the only way humanity will be reconciled with itself is for it to experience a global malignant invasion on ET's. I'm not sure that would even do it.