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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205 part 2

Ned Beatty in Network delivers the paean to Corporatism: a world where everything good is corporate, not individual.
Paddy Chayefsky was very prophetic in this, just as Chuck Palahniuk was so darkly prophetic in Fight Club of the coming Terror.

5 comments:

Unknown said...

I watched "Fight Club" again. And I have to say, I was no more impressed this time than I was the first time. I'm not sure what that means.

Montag said...

Good.
That means when I write about it soon, I must make a compelling and well-reasoned case.

"Fight Club" was one of those movies I came to by walking in after the film had started, so I missed a lot of the story. This can be very helpful surprisingly enough.

I missed the first 20 or more of Bill Murray's Broken Flowers and it was very obvious that I did not need it: it was a set-up for the story of man discovers he had a son, who is the mother?, set out on search to find both...

It was obvious to me very quickly and I fortunately missed what was probably a boring prelude...

It's good to miss the boring parts.

Unknown said...

It always makes me wonder whats wrong with me when something is widely popular and I just don't get it. Happens with movies, books, songs, and other stuff. But now I can use the excuse that I'm just old . . . and whether that's the real reason or not, it will fly. Sigh.

Montag said...

Stop! Don't give anybody any reasons for anything !

The incredible diversity of intelligent entities is reason enough. I don't get the various "Real Wives of such-and-such" and believe me, I make absolutely no apologies for that. I just say that in a universe of diverse intelligence, there is always a high probability of crap and crap-lovers.

Unknown said...

This is certainly good advice. I think I'll take it and make it my own.