Post-liberalism


Is film captures e modern zeitgeist I call post-liberalism. This means that those formally on the left have discarded much of the baggage formally liberal positions have carried, like communism and extreme idealism-expressed in the US as the hippy movement.
This postion acknowledges the reality of wealth, the need for corporations to collude with the current power structure whether it's is Nazism or neoliberalism, the basic selfishness of mankind, the importance of the class system for social stability, and that war is a necessary evil and can actually be the right course many times.
While acknowledging this, it questions authority, is antiracist, anitsexist, anti-homophobic, is concerned with the concept of good citizenship, and supports the intelligent use of the nation's wealth. Perhaps this is what used to be called conservative(forgetting the homosexuality position of course)....
The current definition of conservatism is used to desricbe people who are actually at heart fascists,imperialists, elitists,etc. The current liberals are for the most part simply intelligent consumers who buy special product at an increased cost and associate with a trendy set.
Anyways, it's as if people who support intelligent management of the nation, it's wealth,govt,military,etc have all been kicked off the airwaves and broadcasts.

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If the film captures this zeitgeist, perhaps it's purely secondary (or even accidental:-). Yep, in the film some distateful corporate maneuverings are portrayed less as having any connection to the central personal feelings than as simply background. But I await more examples and analysis before agreeing this "means" anything.

To discuss politics for a moment (quite apart from what the film does or does not suggest), perhaps your 'post-liberalism' is not so much "acknowledging" that things like dramatically uneven distribution of wealth and collusion of corporations with government are good ideas, as it is frankly "giving up" on the possibility of changing those rather abstract things any time soon and instead focusing on concrete things that can actually be affected by individual actions.

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