I have to admit, that scene in Bruno was pretty funny, although it made me a little sad on the inside.
And yes, Hollywood is left-wing as hell. You don’t have to be a neocon to realize that almost everything in the entertainment industry is left-wing. I think it’s hilarious that people think that FoxNews is somehow “biased” while no other major networks catch nearly as much flak. I’m not a fan of FoxNews, but at least they have Stossel, who has to rank as one of the most influential libertarians alive.
Also, @SkepticalMetal, why do you feel you have to restrict what type of art you’re into? I still love the Dead Kennedys and Rage Against the Machine despite their obvious philosophical misplacements. And as far as visual art, screw visual art; 99% of it is self-felating garbage.
On a completely unrelated note, I love Game of Thrones. The indiginous people who live north of the Wall are basically anarchists. They attempt to educate some of the main characters who live under a king about the virtues of true freedom, not living under a ruler; having self-determination and being free from the entanglement of the state. In response, the “civilized” people under the king try to slaughter them.
I don’t know, I guess there’s this voice in the back of my head that tells me that I’m…betraying…something when I watch something that’s anti-libertarian. I mean ever since I got introduced to this whole thing I’ve looked at the world with a lot more cynicism - Boy Scouts, School, movies…everything that I used to be fine with has been tossed upside down now that I see “the truth.”
I myself like it because it’s a damn good movie, even if anarcho-primitivist. I have reason to think that, due to man’s innate mental makeup, we’ll never find a libertarian movie as enjoyable as a collectivist one. I could, of course, be wrong.
Yeah. Now we have leftist jerks calling us homophobic or whatever because of Ron Paul’s response to Sacha Baron Cohen when he did what he did. Oh yeah, what would Obama have done, would he have said “yes we can?” In his deceptive tactics the idiot created another excuse for RP haters.
“Also, this will derail the thread, but why is it that so many libertarians like the movie “Fight Club?” After I saw it, my conclusion that it was anti-capitalist even by our definition of it.” - SkepticalMetal
Because it was anti establishment in general, and because it was reactionary against the general pussification of the American male, both of which many libertarians would find common cause with even if they disagreed on a fundamental level with where Tyler Durden took things. Different ideologies can come to the same conclusion via different routes, and find common cause because of the thematic content that underlies their movements.
The original Star Wars trilogy was pretty anti-collectivist. In fact, the Mises website has a really awesome film list composed of some anti-establishment pro-libertarian movies.
Even though I prefer his father’s more principled stances, I don’t know if we can call him a ‘traitor’. I mean, did he ever promise to be a clone of his father? We shouldn’t be angry just because he’s a different person with different values and priorities. That’s completely normal and no one’s going to be the PERFECT libertarian. And like has been said before, it’s funny that so many of us, even libertarians, seem to fall victim to some sort of innate desire for an American royal family!
Well, first of all, I’m talking about the way people, especially in the media, treat the president and his family. The way they’re so fascinated with everything about his personal life. The name of his dog, the food he likes to eat, the sports teams he follows, his singing skills, etc. This kind of bootlicking has no place in a republic.
Second, I think people are expecting Rand to be his father just because they’re related. In the same way Democrats trust the Kennedy “brand”, some libertarians were getting too caught up in a Paul brand.
Ah yes, the cult of Obama. It really is too bad Thomas Jefferson couldn’t be resurrected. I’m not the guy’s number 1 fan or anything, but I would just love for him to see how the Oval Office occupier’s family has been deified.
Sacha was hilarious back in his old roles of Ali G or Borat, where he would troll or insult the hell out of uptight, upper class white people who always seemed to take his antics all too seriously. Just watch one of his clips where he mocks a politician by pretending to be oblivious to what political party he belongs to (all of them are avalaible on youtube). He went in decline after his Borat movie, and his late Dictator film was largely passe by any standard.
Except when it releases another patriotic war schlock drenched in bodily fluids spilled over various Pentagon military hardware. It isn’t left-wing as much as it is fanatically state worshipping. Honestly, I find movies and media released by Hollywood these days resembling more and more Stalinist or Nazi propaganda.
The real question is why you expect something out of Rand in the first place. He’s a politician trying to stay a poltician. Paul was a major aberration, a politician trying to end the job of all politicians.
