Thanks. Moore did say afterward during the Q&A that if Obama did not come through on the issues he wants that his next film will be about Obama and will make his Bush/911 film look like a 'Disney" picture. I really don't doubt Moore on that. He proposes socialism flat out. Doesn't hide or sugar coat it.
Very good review, thank you. I can scarcely believe that those words came out of the mouth of a US President, sounds like a communist command economy manifesto. How many of the people cheering would give up their Ipods and notebooks?In Moore's world they wouldn't have any of those things. Moore's world is one in which innovation dies, and innovation is really America's, and indeed the world's, only hope. The irony is that it was characters like Dodd, Frank, Graham and other elected officials and their minions that orchestrated the systemic abuse and gaming of our market based economy. Were it not for the market puking when things got so over the top that even government intervention couldn't mask the imbalances anymore we would still be heading down the road to greater peril and collapse (and due to the massive extra market interventions we may still be). It is the free market that provides a check on the excesses of the corrupt, no one is bigger than the market. Moore's utopian vision relies entirely on a government made up of humans endowed with almost god like wisdom and altruism that we have never before witnessed in government. Wasn't Obama supposed to be one of these guys, and look at Moore's take on him now! The fact, proven time and again in system after system, is that it is humans that are the weak link. Whatever system that we live under it had better have some built in checks that guard against that weakness. As far as I know a free market based system is the only one that provides those checks. What we need to be doing is strengthening the free market system rather than making it even more susceptible to corruption and abuse by government officials and those who have the resources to control and influence them.
I know I'll never watch the movie, people like you keep me up to date on what's current. thanks for writing the review. Very interesting.
I wish I was there for the Q and A session after the movie. It would have gone something like this- Clubber Lang- "Hey fat ass. Why don't you redistribute half your net worth to the hundreds of struggling families you use as sympathetic pawns in your horribly biased poorly researched documentaries?" (crowd boo's) Moore replies- "Ummmmmm, Obama rules and George Bush sucks!" (crowd goes insanely wild chanting Moore and Obama's name while I run for the exits to escape a mob beat down.) --------------------- Moore and his loser fans can suck my balls. His films blow and the fact that he preaches socialism yet owns multiple million dollar residences and has a 10 figure net worth shows that he is a fat fucking lying scumbag.
capitalism is an utopian idea that does not reflect current human society the idea is good in theory, like communism, but has many irationalities in it because humans are irrational. you shouldn't forget that corporations didn't get invented until capitalism was already there for hundreds of years. capitalism is a dynamic process, not a static one.
It is so sad that there are no more people left that could explain with such clarity the pitfalls of socialism. Friedman and Buckley are surely missed.
One thing we know for sure is that Michael Moore does NOT have his own personal trainer... What are the libertarians stance with regards to Moore? It would be interesting to hear their opinion, because Covel is more a Randian (is there a proper name for it?) than a libertarian....
As always, it's not the concern the baker has for you, but the concern of his own self-interest that makes him bake bread, to paraphrase Adam Smith.
Sort of like the far gone religious folk who will never read Dawkins's The God Delusion? I am all for regulated capitalism, but I will likely see this movie for the simple reason that it outrages members of ET's uber-capitalist brain trust who, with one exception, have not even seen it yet.