THE Most Important documentary EVERYONE should see
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, May 24, 2024 17:35
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Originally posted by MAL4PREZ:
I don't mean to suggest that I'm up to such a level, but it's like what Francis Bacon was all about. He knew he was living in the Dark Ages and an Enlightenment might be just around the corner. Poor guy. Wish he could see what we have today. He'd shrug at the Tea Party/Faux News morons and say: Nice job getting this far folks. Keep up the good fight.
I *LOVE* this post. Just love it.
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So Chris...
Since I don't have a Netflix account and probably aren't going to make a special trip to find this or buy it on Amazon in the next few days, how about a synopsis. The trailer on the site wasn't too heavy on solutions.
"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."
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Originally posted by G:
Question: You do realize that "angry people with or without money" is a target market?
How can I put this response delicately, yet still express my dissatisfaction with your apparently simplistic takeaway from the piece...?
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Anger is generated by inequity and powerlessness in the face of tyranny, and a lack of anger means a
Oh fuck it- just stop being an asshole, OKAY????
Jesus fucking Christ. Everything has to be judged not on its content, but by the prejudice coming into it or going away from it!!!
Oh, like you're not ANGRY, G.
Out back in my barn is foot powered stone wheel, I'll gladly let you grind your axe there if you want.
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Quote:Oh, thanks for the interest dude, but I'm really not gonna watch it again to take notes... off the top of my head it was basically about the more you make, the more taxes you pay & the more you pay your employees to keep the economy that makes you wealthy thriving so you can remain rich, and your country strong so being rich is a lasting thing & not a countdown to self destruction.
Originally posted by Geezer:
how about a synopsis. The trailer on the site wasn't too heavy on solutions.
Something like that...
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Sounds like an important documentary. What country does it better? America... in the decades following WW2!
It's not personal. It's just war.
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Originally posted by G:
Thing is is: that doesn't do anything for the problem. Maybe it will help some, but it takes a lot more than a warm fuzzy to make things change. Believe it or not, great sounding ideas are a dime a dozen.
Well, of course. But it still has to start somewhere, and that's generally with discussions prompted by stuff like this.
Its as if you're stomping your feet, angry that we're not at the end of the race, and so in protest, you'll never start.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”? Isaac Asimov
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Prime working-age French adults are now much more likely than their US counterparts to have jobs.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/cheese-eating-job-creators/
May 21, 2014 from Cheese-eating Job Creators
The red line is USA; blue is France.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:The movie doesn't pretend to tell us how to have a happy happy, it mainly spells out precisely how we got to where we are, and suggests possibilities out of it, as well as predicts where we'll be if we 'stay the course'.
Originally posted by G:
Not my perspective at all. I don't want people to walk out of a movie with a smile on their face and think it's all taken care of.
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Quote:Beware! There are pirates about:
Originally posted by MIKER:
So I take it everyone commenting on this film ponied up the $4.00 it cost to view it; bravo. I myself did not. I'll wait until it hits Netflix.
Inequality for All (2013) 1080p http://yts.re/movie/Inequality_for_All_2013_1080p
Inequality for All (2013) http://yts.re/movie/Inequality_for_All_2013
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