Leftists' second favorite economic theorist's theories are the prime focus of many Hollywood blockbusters or wannabee blockbusters as this article in The Federalist points out:
This ties completely in with the Anthropomorphic Global Warming (AGW) cultists as the culprit for both is/are humans overwhelming/abusing their environment in pursuit of material wealth. Read the whole thing to see how Hollywood has been on this bandwagon since the '70's.In Elysium, one of the more notable box office failures in a disastrous summer for Hollywood, Matt Damon plays a down-on-his-luck ex-con in a dystopian future in which overpopulation, natural resource depletion, and environmental degradation have led to a worldwide economic collapse. In response, the world elite have decamped to a life of luxury on an orbital space station.If this all sounds a bit familiar, it might be because the same basic setting is behind the plot of the 2008 Pixar film Wall-E, which is also set in a future in which environmental degradation has led the earth’s population to abandon earth for a luxury-liner style spaceship. In that film, a lovable animated robot teaches us that overconsumption is damaging to our basic humanity.
No matter that Malthus' theory as well as AGW have been debunked by reality.
Hollywood is the propaganda arm of the government. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/29/a-little-1940s-germany-parents-livid-after-middle-schoolers-watch-video-of-celebrities-who-pledge-support-for-obama-and-ask-viewers-to-do-likewise/
ReplyDeleteMost people don’t examine or even think about their most basically-held beliefs or world view, and because of this they get their world view from pop culture to include movies. “For the masses of men do not create their own ideas, or indeed think through theses ideas independently; they follow passively the ideas adopted and disseminated by the body of intellectuals. The intellectuals are, therefore, the “opinion-molders” in society”. They mold the opinions of the masses through pop culture and the education system.
I agree that the vast majority of Hollywood movies promote a common theme. Here is a comparison of action movie posters: http://movies.yahoo.com/blogs/movie-talk/proof-hollywood-no-ideas-184257816.html
They all depict the world being saved by a single man. This helps to inculcate into the minds of the the masses a desire to accept the rule of a strongman that will arise after the coming economic turmoil. Similar to how the Germans accepted Hitler after experiencing their economic crisis. The latest Star Trek movie had a political agenda. The entire Star Trek franchise is about promoting some one-world socialist utopian government. In the words of Capitan Picard, there is no money in our future because mankind has evolved beyond the need to seek material possessions.
The World War Z movie promotes the idea that mankind is a disease and that one-world governing bodies like the UN are mankind’s only hope for salvation.
The AGW scam is nothing but a political agenda. It is very fitting that Hollywood would be promoting it. One thing that adherents to Malthus' Theory forgot to take into account was the advance in technology that enables the better use of natural resources. Sowell touches on the subject in "Basic Economics". A factor that helps to curve population growth is the fact that as a nation's economy becomes more advanced the birth rate naturally declines.
I was speaking with a Phillipino about his country. I didn't really have much to say so I asked him about Manny Pacquiao. I asked him if Manny was a good political leader or just won his election because of a popularity contest. He chose the ladder. He explained how the majority of Phillipino political figures are pop culture celebrities because they are the only people who the poor people pay attention to. Sounds like America is devolving in to the same political intellect as the third world nations...
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I am beginning another glorious term at PSU. My capstone teacher (capstone is the climactic class for any undergrad) has a PhD from UC Berkley in economics. The teacher provided three businesses to choose from for my research. Each business has environmental sustainability as its competitive advantage. Vomit.
Here is a good article talking about the big economic picture that quotes Buffet. http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/why-youll-soon-be-paying-rent-to-the-chinese/
ReplyDeleteToday Buffet is busy praising the Federal Reserve calling it "history's greates hedge fund", praising Obama, and deriding the government shutdown. The quotes in the article shows that he knows better and make it even worse that he is a sell-out and a lackey for the government now.
Warren Buffet - Crony Capitalist par excellance. That's why he's so heavily invested in electric utilities.
ReplyDeleteToeJamm, that's funny. Environmental sustainability as a competitive advantage! Ask him how the Germans and Danes are enjoying their wind power right now. They now pay the highest price in Europe for electricity. Spain, once heavily invested in wind, has now dumped it.
I guess you could look at the competitive advantage from the crony capitalist viewpoint, as my company does: if we show we're making an effort, then the govt smiles upon us and grants us our rate base increase requests.
So, the environmental sustainability advantage is that you kiss govt ass enough and they smile upon you. This is the Warren Buffet strategy, so everything is tied together here.
Is this his sustainability: http://dailycaller.com/2013/10/08/environmentalists-anti-hunger-groups-join-push-reform-ethanol-mandate/
ReplyDeleteor this?:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/10/08/will-cooling-temperature-and-economic-climates-finally-take-the-wind-out-of-failed-energy-policies/