Capitalism : A Love Story (pt.2)
01Mar10
This is going to be huge. Apologies, Michael, for the typo in the previous post…
A journalist called today to call me a typical “…Guardian-reading, media-hating liberal…” which came as something of a surprise.
Anyway, I finished reading ‘The Spectator’ just in time to post this appetite-whetting piece.
I’ve now ran out of hyphons.
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Trust me, Jamie.
You’re not a liberal.
Outrageous.
Come on, define…
Capitalism is evil and destroys the world blah blah, yeah, heard it all before.
Its ok to push this ‘radical’ message when you’re in a minority as it gives you a certain edge. But now that Moore is following the crowd rather than leading it it leaves him out in the cold somewhat.
For a film about capitalism to be controversial it would have to come out and support it, that would be risque and something possibly worth watching. But for that to happen we’d first need to understand what capitalism is and more importantly what it isn’t. Unfortunately hardly anyone understands free markets so it never gets a fair hearing.
Some good points here. Moore will find the going tougher. But he’s an honest polemecist…he doesn’t try to hide his bias. He erects his arguments upon his biases, and that’s refreshing.
As for the ‘capitalism’s great’ film yet to be made (there are plenty out there if you look I suspect) isn’t this precisely what so many news and media networks produce day-in, day-out?
People are beginning to understand markets better than you give them credit for (I think). Taking your point further though, if more people did understand how the market works, it would probably deliver more progressive results. So much of the strength of the system right now (we probably are at a watershed moment) is that it exists within a society which is largely ignorant about how the system works and who it works for.