Life, liberty, and…
Allright, so I’m drunk blogging again. Shut up, I’m on vacation.
Anyway I just watched The Pursuit of Happiness. Great film, but what’s bugging me is I’m seem to remember some mumblings about it being a good pro-conservative-values film.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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First of course being, “hard-work-triumphs” is not a value exclusive to conservatism, no matter what ridiculous propaganda has convinced you otherwise.
Second of course being — OK, so an extraordinary person graced with extraordinary intelligence and extraordinary perseverance can beat the odds in a game extraordinarily stacked against him — and this somehow justifies the game, and its odds?
Please.
Perhaps you see justice in a world where the extraordinary may one day rise from the gutters in the hopes of perhaps being able to feed their fucking children.
I see insanity in a world that wastes such intelligence and energy on subsistence, and leaves the merely ordinary in the gutter, as if that’s somehow natural.
It isn’t.
The key, as ever, is that wealth controls who benefits from access to the Earth’s resources. So long as that remains true, everything else you think you know is spin.
