Finally watched ( I think it was in fact the second time ) Idiocraty again. Very dumb, relatively funny, but the fundamental idea is genius. The rich and wealthy are diminishing in numbers, formal education is always more expensive, now mostly private, it is likely that intelligence will disappear as will the middle class.
Sounds familiar ...
Something you can see already everywhere in US.
As we made the choice to have only one child, I can relate to that.
Living right now in "local" neighborhood on Maui, I can relate to that.
Anyway, yesterday, watching another movie, at least the first half (that s a story for later), "The ledge" ...
The main character got this interesting idea of forbidding the heterosexual marriage while authorizing the gay one, with the pretext of limiting the world overpopulation (heteros breed, gay adopts, +3 vs -1, math does not lie).
The obvious struck me, the catholic precept of the "multiplication" fits so well the capitalism model based on the continual growth (and the hope of a better life later - the american dream, heaven and hell).
Found this interesting and polemical article on the web.
I found all this very actual (article is from 2010 in US) when in France, people are burning cars and chasing gays to protest against the "marriage for everybody" that the government is struggling to validate, even approved by the majority of the electors. (Lobbys, anyone ?).
I would like to point (again) the correlation between expansionism and capitalism and the fact that all of this is go hand by hand, and is built deeply into our actual society model.
Remove one brick and the wall will fall.
Stop growth, expansion, new markets and the model will fall.
Right now, the wall is still there and we are heading right into it, head first.
Who said you cannot be Anarchist and to be living in Hawaii ;)
Interesting.
Anyway, yesterday, watching another movie, at least the first half (that s a story for later), "The ledge" ...
(Thanks to my random clicks on Netflix we get to see a little bit of everything, and this one starts a good surprise -We will tonight if the end is to disappointing, as usually it is in Hollywood movies).
Anyway....
The main character got this interesting idea of forbidding the heterosexual marriage while authorizing the gay one, with the pretext of limiting the world overpopulation (heteros breed, gay adopts, +3 vs -1, math does not lie).
The obvious struck me, the catholic precept of the "multiplication" fits so well the capitalism model based on the continual growth (and the hope of a better life later - the american dream, heaven and hell).
Found this interesting and polemical article on the web.
I found all this very actual (article is from 2010 in US) when in France, people are burning cars and chasing gays to protest against the "marriage for everybody" that the government is struggling to validate, even approved by the majority of the electors. (Lobbys, anyone ?).
I would like to point (again) the correlation between expansionism and capitalism and the fact that all of this is go hand by hand, and is built deeply into our actual society model.
Remove one brick and the wall will fall.
Stop growth, expansion, new markets and the model will fall.
Right now, the wall is still there and we are heading right into it, head first.
Who said you cannot be Anarchist and to be living in Hawaii ;)
Obviously, the NRA may not let us enjoy a slow overpopulated death.
ReplyDeleteIn "Idiocraty", there was a lot of references on the American weapon craziness. Always fun to see that in the news :
http://www.francetvinfo.fr/en-congres-a-houston-la-nra-celebre-l-amour-des-armes_317817.html#xtor=RSS-3-%5Blestitres%5D
In French.
As for the movie, the ending is surprisingly not Hollywood, and rather straight to the point. My favorite part was overall the discussion between the realist and the zealot. You can imagine my own perspective on this debat, which is pretty actual in those time of radicalism, from both side of the spectrum.
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