Hollywood Has Turned 'Cryptofascist'

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If I remember correctly wasn't the Persian's invading the Greeks after the Greeks refused them. Also with all the gay rights in movies I still stay it's left wing. Don't forget all the woman who beat the crap out of men.

Well, as much as I loved the Dark Knight, it does kind of have a right-wing slant. Especially the part where Batman goes above the law and spies on every single person in Gotham trying to find a terrorist because he knows best and is operating in the "best interest" of his city. That's a little Patriot Act-esque, isn't it? And there's no doubt that 300 is racist. The idea that Hollywood is liberal may be generally true, but not when it comes to foreign policy. Even in movies critical of overseas practices, the white American guy is going to be the one to stand up and save the day (Rendition, Body of Lies... I actually stopped watching action movies after that, so that's all I got.)  

Apologies for re-posting my comments, but some poor syntax needed amending, as well as needing a couple of additions to the list. There is a moral law which indeed exists a priori of mankind, who has discovered it. However, if indeed Fascist_Jack and Laughing_Man — who hold that there is nothing outside what Fascist_Jack defines as “Natural justice”, and what both define as “Competition” — then indeed we are doomed to forever live in their prison of fascistic/corporatistic Darwinist empire, under a kind of Olympian oligarchy: the Orwellian jackboot forever crushing a human face into the dirt. However (again), in answer to Fascist_Jack’s presumably rhetorical question, it can be said that the view expressed by these two writers is somewhat one-dimensional: the situation is far more complex, as one can see by simply looking at the work of such individuals as C.F. Gauss, G.F. Leibniz, B. Riemann, A. Einstein, J.S. Bach, L.v. Beethoven, Wm. Shakespeare, Charles Babbage, Socrates, Plato, Pythagoras, Confucius, Mencius, Augustine of Hippo, the apostle Paul, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Henry VII, Dante Alighieri, Abraham Lincoln, F.D. Roosevelt, J.F. Kennedy, Marie Curie, Rosa Luxemburg, Jeanne d’Arc, L. da Vinci, Rembrandt v. Rijn, J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart, J. Brahms, Thomas Paine, J. Q. Adams, D. D. Eisenhower, G. Washington, B. Franklin, F. Chopin, A. Dvorak, Camerata Romeu, etc., etc., and countless others, both notable and anonymous, who manifest and represent that higher hypothesis which is the unique discovery of mankind, and which places us in a domain unknown to beasts, and which is otherwise known as Natural Law. Not, as some intend, “red in tooth and claw” (Malthusian, Huxleyite, Wellsian, Hitlerian, oligarchic, imperial Darwinism), but the living proof of the scientifically knowable universal principle of the higher hypothesis, which preexists mankind itself.   Millions of men, women and children throughout history, to this very day, go about their days informed by this principle. And it’s not “customary” law, Roman style, nor is it “common law”, British style! One day, maybe very soon, the oligarchy, the monetarist empire’s spine, will be broken, or they will accomplish their own demise, as sure as Nemesis follows Hubris.