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ProfessorPlum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:16 PM
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Right wingers trust corporations: a look at the future
After reading MN against Bush's excellent post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2153187

it occurred to me that there is a lot of fiction and science fiction based on a future where corporations have all (or way too much) of the power. And they are all incredibly bleak.

Just quickly off the top of my head, there is Outland, Alien and Aliens, They Live, Blade Runner, and Snow Crash. All of them feature corporate-run distopias. There must be dozens more of these kinds of future feudalism/corporatism visions out there.

We know right wingers get a lot of their view of the world from movies. Can we harness the power of those images, from popular movies, to attack their economic vision? (Are there any movies you can think of that feature a future dominated by corporations that are POSITIVE?)

"The GOP wants to bring us corporate-run working conditions like the mining towns in Total Recall."

I don't know, it's goofy but it just might work. Can you think of other examples?
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antigop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:19 PM
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1. Read Sinclair Lewis: "It Can't Happen Here" n/t
Edited on Mon Oct-29-07 12:19 PM by antigop
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ripmolly Donating Member (57 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:20 PM
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2. Not exactly a corporation
My ex watched Starship Troopers where only people that served in the military could vote. Most extreme Repigs want that.
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 01:06 PM
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4. Really? And I wonder how many Repugs would actually have the right
to vote then?
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IDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-29-07 12:23 PM
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3. Just finished Arthur Silber's latest

According to him, it's not "out there in the future", it has been here for over a century. And "a future where corporations have all (or way too much) of the power" is not something the right wing alone has cultured:

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/

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