I'm jazzed about this new Michael Moore film, Capitalism: A Love Story.
The first reason is this: Michael Moore defines capitalism, from all the interviews I've read, as systematic greed. I'm stoked because I can't wait to ask those who support this film to define capitalism, while I whip out my phone and pull up dictionary.com to prove them wrong. Ok, maybe I'll be nicer than that.
I read a review that of course I cannot find at the moment that quoted Moore as saying something similar to "Capitalism is evil. You cannot regulate evil. You have to replace it with something. That something is democracy."
While I'm sure that there are illustrations galore in said film that show people abusing a capitalistic system, Moore's solution is the neo-proverbial "don't hate the player, hate the game." While it might sound great on an inner city basketball court, it doesn't work in real life. If eliminating the "game" due to cheaters were actually carried out there would be no industry at all. If we started implementing this practice tomorrow, we would have no national sports teams in 24 hours flat.
It humors me that Moore puts on the "poor ol' folk like us" hat, as if he doesn't have untold millions of dollars in some off-shore bank account.
I also had a good laugh with my mother over the "good - evil" scale that Moore replaces with "democracy - capitalism". Sadly for Mr. Moore (and hilariously for the rest of us) capitalism and democracy would not be found on opposite ends of the same scale.
If I could tell Michael Moore one thing about his film it would be this: Calling the definition of capitalism "greed" is like calling the definition of sex "love". You can have capitalism without greed and you can have sex without love. You're attempt at selling democracy and greed as mutually exclusive is a joke and a half. But then, that's probably what you were going for, huh?
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Well said. The metaphors you chose were on point.
Michael Moore is a very wealthy man - it's inherited wealth. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
If he was Ghandi, he would have divested himself of all that he had, would have given it to the poor.
You can be a fat, filthy, hollywood trust fund baby who does nothing but whine, complain, falsify and exaggerate or you can live by a higher standard. Moore took the low road.
The very existence of this movie not being possible without capitalism makes me chuckle because most of the people who go see this and believe in what it's saying won't see the irony in paying 10 bucks to Mr. Moore (and the theater, etc.) for the pleasure. Cognitive dissonance is bliss. :oD
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