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A movie Ronald Reagan should have seen
by (movies profile)
Dec 22, 2006
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Even though he would have poo-pooed it as liberal, eco-freak pap, this film shows well the crippled and dying world that Reagan would have caused if he were lifetime dictator or king of the USA instead of only its president for 8 years. At that, he did enough damage of the type shown in this film for his legacy to severely injure the earth and its living beings for many generations to come, and maybe permanently. His "when you've seen one tree you've seen them all" statement tells everything one needs to know about the causes of our earth's ecological crisis and of the long fallout halflife of "Reagonomics" and its rich supporters, like the two Bushes.
This film told us what we already know but hide our heads in the sand about, mostly. Most of us just don't want to confront the pain of deadly reality and then have to deal effectively with it, especially if we have to "adjust" down our selfish and wasteful lifestyles(sell my SUV?). Some courageous persons and groups in this world do fight the good fight, but most of us are spineless weenies who actually gain desired lifestyle points from the criminal excesses of corporations, and silently want these corporations and supporting governments to continue on with their earth offenses so they can continue to live the good life throughout their own short, selfish existences, and to hell with their own grandchildren, just exactly like Reagan thought. Come on, admit it. I do, and am shamed by it.
(Reagan also thought that there were good and true reasons why the rich were rich and the same thing for the poor. Elitist manifest destiny is what I call that bulls**t philosophy, as it discounts totally all of the many complicated things that contribute to how a human being turns out in life ....all except for the benefit of superior life options provided by lots of money.)
Michael Moore's comment at the end of the film was so dead on.... the fatal flaw in capitalism can be summed up by this anecdote....the desire, indeed need, for the greedy capitalist to make the highest possible profit on the rope he sells you with which to hang him. The capitalist just never gets it, even if it kills him.
Capitalism....it's all the tail wagging the dog, and the dog chasing his tail...it all goes nowhere and ends in nothing, and this film shows that truth better than anything I have seen. |
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