Firefly cancelled for hitting on the truth!

POSTED BY: truthishere
UPDATED: Sunday, June 25, 2006 21:38
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Sunday, June 25, 2006 7:09 PM

Chronicles of Riddick was paired with it at HMV.

I like Riddick.

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'I don't know. He seems kind of peculiar.'

'Maybe he's Canadian!'

EMMARIGBY

Sunday, June 25, 2006 7:14 PM

Ah well, I was aware that HMV was on the side of the independants. Did you check out the caption competition a couple of weeks back? They support Huge Multinational-corporation Victims!

BLOODFALCON

Sunday, June 25, 2006 7:51 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
You forgot about Walmart. Walmart and Microsoft are out to get us. Since I am a Mac user, I am sure I'll be one of the first to be targeted.

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"Funny and sexy. You have no idea. And you never will."

Why don't we also include News Corporation into this cabal of businesses and corporations, bent on controlling thought by way of the media. Hell, News Corporation, being what it is, could probably kill any show that was on their network that came too close to exposing the...oh, wait.

BLOODFALCON

Sunday, June 25, 2006 7:55 PM

...for reference sake to the uninformed, News Corporation is the original name of Fox.

Sorry. Should've made that clear. Mia culpa.

BROWNCOATBEAR

Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:38 PM

If we are to consider the possibility that FF was cancelled for hitting to close to the mark, then a component to that is the way the character's lives, individually and collectively, were affected by the close parallels of the way real-world government behaves that were written into the plot curves.

Governments do not protect freedom. That is a oxymoron that was inserted into the Declaration of Independence. Factually, to "govern" means to control. FF is a fictional demonstation of how we are so governed, and how it is an intrinsic quality of human/spiritual beings to resist being controlled. It is also a demonstration of how a closely knit group of individuals will put themselves at great risk to preserve and defend their own freedom as well as a friend's, and that is one of the major reasons that I love it so much. I want friends like that.

FF espouses very Conservative American values which are expressed through the Browncoats and the war for independence from the Alliance. It also draws attention to the perils of Liberalism. Of course, these terms have definitions that have strayed very far and away from their original intent politically, but we have to remember that the united states of America was founded as a Confederation based on Conservative ideals, which simply meant that the government would have an extremely minimal presence in the life of the average sovereign individual. The government's primary legitimate purpose was to protect life, liberty, and property, and as long as you did not trespass on the life, liberty, or property of another individual, you would not encounter the legal justice system, generally. Classic Liberalism meant pretty much the same thing.

Modern liberalism (the Alliance), however, promotes the notion that people need to be controlled, and that an overwhelming presence of government in the lives of every individual is a good thing, and, if deemed necessary, taking their property at gunpoint "for the good of the collective" is perfectly acceptable. This is a political philosophy that is very much against the grain of any true Browncoat. The media, print and broadcast, promotes a highly liberal agenda. Firefly unquestionably conflicted with that agenda. It supported the opposite notion, and it is worthy of consideration that this conflict was an important factor in the decision to cancel the show.

Don't get me wrong, the modern Conservative philosophy is no better. This is why I personally do not play politics or claim any party affiliation. What I want is 100% control of 100% of my property 100% of the time, and 0% control of anyone else's.

I think that makes me a Browncoat.

Factually speaking, who has the right to control another human being without their consent? Where and how did they acquire that right? Who had the authority to give them that right, and how and where did they get it?

GOD, I NEED A SHIP!!!!!

BrowncoatBear

BROWNCOATBEAR

Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:38 PM

This was an accidental re-post of previous comment.

Rookie mistake. Content deleted.

Sorry. I'm new.

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