Captain America: The Winter Soldier - Explosions are Liberal!

I had a peek at the internet today and saw some people discussing whether or not American movies were conservative or liberal.  That is, an American liberal which actually means liberal instead of conservative.  Although by our standards American liberal is actually pretty conservative.

Anyway, their discussion was far too erudite and refined for me to have anything very constructive to add.  Shamefully, I have spent far too little time analyzing the politics of American movies.  For example, I couldn't even give you the percentage of philosophy in Dumb & Dumber 2 that is Marxist in origin, accurate to two significant figures.

Anyway, the last American movie I saw was Captain America: The Winter Solider. Stuff got blown up good. If blowing stuff up is conservative then it was a conservative movie. However, when one thinks about it, blowing stuff up doesn’t really conserve it now, does it? Instead it tends to radically change it and so should be classed as more progressive than conservative. However, explosions do result in large increases in entropy which reduces the ability to perform constructive work in the future. So I am forced to conclude that while explosions are liberal, they contain within them the seeds of their own destruction.

But the use to which explosions are put probably merits consideration. Explosions caused by the “good guys” were in support of the status quo of a “free” America, while explosions caused by the “bad guys” were in the service of a revolutionary coup aimed at installing a dictatorship. Actually, to avoid bringing moral considerations into this, I should perhaps refer to them as, “the more physically attractive side” and “the less physically attractive side”. After all, I don’t want to be put in position of arguing that installing a tyranny at the point of guns mounted on magic flying aircraft carriers is not the moral thing to do.

Anyway, in conclusion, I’m not really sure how to categorize this movie. The explosions make me lean towards classing it as liberal, but with the more physically attractive side working to maintain the status quo it’s hard to call. It is simply not a clearly conservative film like The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The last American movie I saw was Captain America: The Winter Solider. Stuff got blown up good. If blowing stuff up is conservative then it was a conservative movie. However, when one thinks about it, blowing stuff up doesn’t really conserve it now, does it? Instead it tends to radically change it and so should be classed as more progressive than conservative. However, explosions do result in large increases in entropy which reduces the ability to perform constructive work in the future. So I am forced to conclude that while explosions are liberal, they contain within them the seeds of their own destruction.
But the use to which explosions are put probably merits consideration. Explosions caused by the “good guys” were in support of the status quo of a “free” America, while explosions caused by the “bad guys” were in the service of a revolutionary coup aimed at installing a dictatorship. Actually, to avoid bringing moral considerations into this, I should perhaps refer to them as, “the more physically attractive side” and “the less physically attractive side”. After all, I don’t want to be put in position of arguing that installing a tyrany at the point of guns mounted on magic flying aircraft carriers is not the moral thing to do.
Anyway, in conclusion, I’m not really sure how to categorise this movie. The explosions make me lean towards classing it as liberal, but with the more physically attractive side working to maintain the status quo it’s hard to call. It’s simply not a clearly conservative film like The Grand Budapest Hotel.
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The last American movie I saw was Captain America: The Winter Solider. Stuff got blown up good. If blowing stuff up is conservative then it was a conservative movie. However, when one thinks about it, blowing stuff up doesn’t really conserve it now, does it? Instead it tends to radically change it and so should be classed as more progressive than conservative. However, explosions do result in large increases in entropy which reduces the ability to perform constructive work in the future. So I am forced to conclude that while explosions are liberal, they contain within them the seeds of their own destruction.
But the use to which explosions are put probably merits consideration. Explosions caused by the “good guys” were in support of the status quo of a “free” America, while explosions caused by the “bad guys” were in the service of a revolutionary coup aimed at installing a dictatorship. Actually, to avoid bringing moral considerations into this, I should perhaps refer to them as, “the more physically attractive side” and “the less physically attractive side”. After all, I don’t want to be put in position of arguing that installing a tyrany at the point of guns mounted on magic flying aircraft carriers is not the moral thing to do.
Anyway, in conclusion, I’m not really sure how to categorise this movie. The explosions make me lean towards classing it as liberal, but with the more physically attractive side working to maintain the status quo it’s hard to call. It’s simply not a clearly conservative film like The Grand Budapest Hotel.
- See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/02/assorted-links-1361.html#comment-158444507

The last American movie I saw was Captain America: The Winter Solider. Stuff got blown up good. If blowing stuff up is conservative then it was a conservative movie. However, when one thinks about it, blowing stuff up doesn’t really conserve it now, does it? Instead it tends to radically change it and so should be classed as more progressive than conservative. However, explosions do result in large increases in entropy which reduces the ability to perform constructive work in the future. So I am forced to conclude that while explosions are liberal, they contain within them the seeds of their own destruction.
But the use to which explosions are put probably merits consideration. Explosions caused by the “good guys” were in support of the status quo of a “free” America, while explosions caused by the “bad guys” were in the service of a revolutionary coup aimed at installing a dictatorship. Actually, to avoid bringing moral considerations into this, I should perhaps refer to them as, “the more physically attractive side” and “the less physically attractive side”. After all, I don’t want to be put in position of arguing that installing a tyrany at the point of guns mounted on magic flying aircraft carriers is not the moral thing to do.
Anyway, in conclusion, I’m not really sure how to categorise this movie. The explosions make me lean towards classing it as liberal, but with the more physically attractive side working to maintain the status quo it’s hard to call. It’s simply not a clearly conservative film like The Grand Budapest Hotel.
- See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/02/assorted-links-1361.html#comment-158444507

To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee: A Synopsis

Atticus Finch appears to live an idealic life with his family in small town America. However, after a near fatal head injury gives him epilepsy, in the time after seizures Atticus is able to see the town as it really is - a zoo containing the last unmutated human survivors of a nuclear war. After the war mutated animals gained telepathy and a controlling overmind and now the rule the world outside of radiation zones. With the help of "Boo" Radley who he formally thought of as the town's madman, Atticus Finch formulates a plan to kill the animal that is the key node of the local animal overmind so he and his fellow survivors can escape to freedom in a nearby radiation zone. They plan to give the mutant humans dwelling there the gifts of technology and lead them in rebellion against the animal overlords. Hence the title, To Kill a Mockingbird. Tragically, Harper Lee died of a massive bad acid trip before she could finish the second and third volumes of her planned trilogy. If completed this work would surely be considered the greatest literary accomplishment in the English language.