Comments on: And The Award Goes To … Joan Rivers https://barelyablog.com/and-the-award-goes-to-joan-rivers/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: irongalt https://barelyablog.com/and-the-award-goes-to-joan-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-17499 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:36:21 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=33539#comment-17499 “But the viewer also sees the product of corporate/government collusion (perhaps unintentionally I grant you).”

It was not unintentional: the intended implication is that government is basically good unless it allows itself to be influenced by “evil” companies.

Once you understand the leftists’ prime motives, you will see their messages intertwined in almost every film, television series, news broadcast, newspaper article, etc.

]]> By: Æ https://barelyablog.com/and-the-award-goes-to-joan-rivers/comment-page-1/#comment-17497 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:05:48 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=33539#comment-17497 You might enjoy “Dances with Blue People”, even if Sci-fi isn’t normally your thing. It is fairly predictable – the noble savage, the humans destroyed their own world, and all that. All the Conservative chest-thumping about anti-Americanism was misguided. Does the film glorify the primitive, subsistence-level existence of the natives? Sure. But the viewer also sees the product of corporate/government collusion (perhaps unintentionally I grant you). There is only one mining company on Pandora, and it has a merc/paramilitary army.
The protagonist comes to humanize the native, sentient people, and tries to walk the fine line between force/fraud and the Natural rights of the people. He convinces himself that he can find a peaceful resolution…
Of course the environmentalist, living-as-one-with-nature, who-needs-indoor-plumbing message is predominant. Not hard to see why the warfare statists missed the human struggle. Oh, and it looks really cool!

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