Anyone else think this during the 'alien' city / whatever scenes?
Quite hilarious, and a bit scary when you realize that there are idiots out there who would want to live in a world like that.
Since you lash out at other people by calling them "idiots", I can quite see how you would not want to live in a world where people are consistently kind, trusting, courteous, and caring of each other.
I'm sorry for you.
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Yes, I was thinking the same thing exactly and "I'm sorry" for anyone that would want to surrender themselves to being invaded and controlled by another entity but then no one is THAT stupid..... Oh wait.... Obama DID get elected :o(
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!
It's more like the Stepford Wives, or Pleasantville.
You sometimes hear people talk about how wonderful the world was thirty or forty years ago, and how if we could only get back to those values, everything would be wonderful again.
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I love Mister Bungee--yes indeedy (here's your ziti)!
Why does everything have to be some Liberal's scheme?
Im the Alpha and the Omoxus. The Omoxus and the Omega
I'm not sure what you mean?
I'm not saying the movie has anything to do with liberalism, just that those few scenes unintentionally depict the kind of sterilized zero-individuality collectivist 'utopia' that modern liberals want so badly.
I liked the movie, just in cases i might have suggested otherwise. : /
You do understand that individualism is the entire basis of liberalism, right?
shareOH-Like that place called "heaven" that all conservatives are desperate to get to and conscript everyone else to go whether they want to or not. That place where the sole activity is to kowtow to one being and exult in it's superiority to everything else and your own relative insignificance.
That kind of collectivist utopia?
Neocons are neoliberal, in fact both republicans and democrats are neoliberal... mostly to do with right wing economic policy or the usual American definitions.
Dubya, for example, and Margaret Thatcher were both neoliberals.
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It's not "sci-fi", it's SF!
Oh dear, another confused American!!!
Collectivism isn't "Liberal", in fact Marxists use that term as an insult to those that they consider not to be true leftists.
Neoliberalism involves laissez faire economics, the so called "free" market, big business control etc etc.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats are NEOLIBERAL. They support big business, which pays for their campaign funds.
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It's not "Sci-Fi", it's SF!
"Calvinism is a very liberal religious ethos." - Truekiwijoker
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Oh dear, he said NEO-Liberal. The American free market, anti-statist duopoly is NEOLIBERAL.
Just to confuse you, Neocons are Neoliberals, and so are the Republicans. Very much so.
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It's not "Sci-Fi", it's SF!
"Calvinism is a very liberal religious ethos." - Truekiwijoker
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The store reminded me very much of Ikea.
The architecture is very similar to the glass and steel stuff that's going up all over the world.
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It's not "Sci-Fi", it's SF!
"Calvinism is a very liberal religious ethos." - Truekiwijoker
It can work as entertainment, but you're right, it's a bit unsettling that people want to turn the world into some sort of paradise/Utopia. Such a thinking either ignores the reality of life or is ignorant of human nature.
2014: Whiplash, Cold in July, that Terrence Malick project set in Austin