And by garbage I mean Micheal Moore. How uncouth do you have to be to make a movie capitalizing on the Columbine tragedy? Remember when he tried to ask if powerful people would send their children off to war? His assertion was that Bush would never send his child or go himself, but being a monster he would send children of those less well connected. I thought it was interesting in the last election that of the presidential and vice presidential candidates three of the four had children in the service going over seas. The exception being Obama for the obvious reason his children are too young. Funny how Moore wasn’t there and nobody talked about his stunts.
Now he’s back with a new film. Why? Maybe it’s the adulation, though I can’t think who still respects him. He has one schtick and it’s getting older than Robin Williams hamming it up non stop for two hours. As an aside I think Robin Williams is brilliant when forced to act. I digress. Maybe Moore just got addicted to all the cash of his initial success and as recent films haven’t done as well it’s time again to fill the coffers.
His new film asserts “Capitalism is evil” and what does he say it should be replaced with? “Democracy”. Now if you’re old school like me no doubt this is confusing. Don’t we live in a democracy? Technically no, it’s a republic, but it’s a democratic republic. Without getting into that civics lesson or arguing if we have become an oligarchy or flirted with fascism I’ll explain. It is best illustrated by the bastardization of democracy, democratization. Let’s use it in a sentence, shall we. The glorious and benevolent Argentinean leader Hugo Chavez is democratizing dozens of radio stations that disagree with him.
Now I know what those of you educated before our national education system made us a joke around the world are saying. This sounds anti-democratic. Here is an explanation. I’ll paraphrase. These evil businesses that had all that money didn’t speak for the people. The government is the people so by returning all speech to the government it is therefore once again democratic speech… That is whenever the government decides to begin broadcasting again and decides what speech is acceptable. See? Conversely with capitalism broadcasters would sell advertising at prices based on the popularity of the programming and the number of people reached. If broadcasts were unpopular they would be pulled and if broadcasters were unpopular they would go out of business. Therefore you would be stuck listening to programming that was the most popular from broadcasters that people chose. What a horrible failure that would be!
Some of you must be saying this is nuts, but I remember the 60s and 70s. Okay, some of them anyway. There were the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They spun off the Weathermen which were domestic terrorist bombers. You know, our president used to hang with William Ayers, one of the founders in Chicago and another, Jeff Jones, worked on the stimulus bill with Van Jones. BTW the SDS is back! Check it the sanitized info at Wikipedia. Okay, I’m not making the point very well.
The point is that public ownership of everything is to these people democratic. I’m reminded of the saying that true democracy is tyranny. The meaning of course is that a mob is very democratic when doing things like lynching people, but only in the heat of the moment. Of course the idea that we as citizens would actually have any power over that which is in the public purview can easily be illustrated by looking at congress. They exempt themselves from everything they lay on us and instead of seeing themselves as public servants see us as an annoyance lately.
There is an old saying you may have heard. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” To my mind that was the greatest wisdom of our founding fathers. They intentionally created a government designed to be dysfunctional and gridlocked. Bless their hearts! Jefferson said it so well. “Government governs best that governs least.” Let’s see if we can come up with a phrase for democratization, shall we. I have one. “From each according to their ability to each according to their need.” Sounds grand, doesn’t it? It just happens to be Karl Marx, the inspiration for Lennin to start Soviet communism. As I recall that regime decided at least 30 million of their own people should stop breathing for the good of the state.
Capitalism and the United States started as what was termed the “grand experiment” because free enterprise and self government were unheard of since Julius Ceaser crossed the Rubicon two millennium ago. Every nation on earth has been impacted and most transformed. From an age of royal despots to a world of freedom we should be an international hero. Our country and system is certainly less than perfect as is to be expected of all human endeavors, but is hardly ready for the trash bin of ideas like communism and fascism and doesn’t deserve an apology tour. I submit capitalism is best, but I’d stipulate it is at its very best when an educated public stops giving Michal Moore money. In these difficult times if anyone deserves to be “democratized” it’s him!
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And by garbage I mean Micheal Moore. How uncouth do you have to be to make a movie capitalizing on the Columbine tragedy? Remember when he tried to ask if powerful people would send their children off to war? His assertion was that Bush would never send his child or go himself, but being a monster he would send children of those less well connected. I thought it was interesting in the last election that of the presidential and vice presidential candidates three of the four had children in the service going over seas. The exception being Obama for the obvious reason his children are too young. Funny how Moore wasn’t there and nobody talked about his stunts.
Now he’s back with a new film. Why? Maybe it’s the adulation, though I can’t think who still respects him. He has one schtick and it’s getting older than Robin Williams hamming it up non stop for two hours. As an aside I think Robin Williams is brilliant when forced to act. I digress. Maybe Moore just got addicted to all the cash of his initial success and as recent films haven’t done as well it’s time again to fill the coffers.
His new film asserts “Capitalism is evil” and what does he say it should be replaced with? “Democracy”. Now if you’re old school like me no doubt this is confusing. Don’t we live in a democracy? Technically no, it’s a republic, but it’s a democratic republic. Without getting into that civics lesson or arguing if we have become an oligarchy or flirted with fascism I’ll explain. It is best illustrated by the bastardization of democracy, democratization. Let’s use it in a sentence, shall we. The glorious and benevolent Argentinean leader Hugo Chavez is democratizing dozens of radio stations that disagree with him.
Now I know what those of you educated before our national education system made us a joke around the world are saying. This sounds anti-democratic. Here is an explanation. I’ll paraphrase. These evil businesses that had all that money didn’t speak for the people. The government is the people so by returning all speech to the government it is therefore once again democratic speech… That is whenever the government decides to begin broadcasting again and decides what speech is acceptable. See? Conversely with capitalism broadcasters would sell advertising at prices based on the popularity of the programming and the number of people reached. If broadcasts were unpopular they would be pulled and if broadcasters were unpopular they would go out of business. Therefore you would be stuck listening to programming that was the most popular from broadcasters that people chose. What a horrible failure that would be!
Some of you must be saying this is nuts, but I remember the 60s and 70s. Okay, some of them anyway. There were the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). They spun off the Weathermen which were domestic terrorist bombers. You know, our president used to hang with William Ayers, one of the founders in Chicago and another, Jeff Jones, worked on the stimulus bill with Van Jones. BTW the SDS is back! Check it the sanitized info at Wikipedia. Okay, I’m not making the point very well.
The point is that public ownership of everything is to these people democratic. I’m reminded of the saying that true democracy is tyranny. The meaning of course is that a mob is very democratic when doing things like lynching people, but only in the heat of the moment. Of course the idea that we as citizens would actually have any power over that which is in the public purview can easily be illustrated by looking at congress. They exempt themselves from everything they lay on us and instead of seeing themselves as public servants see us as an annoyance lately.
There is an old saying you may have heard. “Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” To my mind that was the greatest wisdom of our founding fathers. They intentionally created a government designed to be dysfunctional and gridlocked. Bless their hearts! Jefferson said it so well. “Government governs best that governs least.” Let’s see if we can come up with a phrase for democratization, shall we. I have one. “From each according to their ability to each according to their need.” Sounds grand, doesn’t it? It just happens to be Karl Marx, the inspiration for Lennin to start Soviet communism. As I recall that regime decided at least 30 million of their own people should stop breathing for the good of the state.
Capitalism and the United States started as what was termed the “grand experiment” because free enterprise and self government were unheard of since Julius Ceaser crossed the Rubicon two millennium ago. Every nation on earth has been impacted and most transformed. From an age of royal despots to a world of freedom we should be an international hero. Our country and system is certainly less than perfect as is to be expected of all human endeavors, but is hardly ready for the trash bin of ideas like communism and fascism and doesn’t deserve an apology tour. I submit capitalism is best, but I’d stipulate it is at its very best when an educated public stops giving Michal Moore money. In these difficult times if anyone deserves to be “democratized” it’s him!
This entry was posted on Sunday, September 6th, 2009 at 7:22 PM and is filed under social commentary. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.