Um, dandy. But a thread titled "RightWingNutZ" probably isn't the place for this particular discussion...tho I appreciate the irony of discussing a book that "fosters deep listening, respect, and empathy and engenders a mutual desire to give from the heart" in a thread mocking a particular political faction.
This is the book I'm reading right now, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg(you can read the first chapter for free right here), and I wish you would read this in an attempt to understand what I'm trying to say, instead of hurling accusations at me.
Um, dandy. But a thread titled "RightWingNutZ" probably isn't the place for this particular discussion...tho I appreciate the irony of discussing a book that "fosters deep listening, respect, and empathy and engenders a mutual desire to give from the heart" in a thread mocking a particular political faction.
Colour me to embarassed to be having a conversation with you about 'reality.' I think your reviewer (?) used the word in a sentence. Haha!
Here's the ACTUAL data for the weekend: Notice Capitalism: A Love Story is fourth in T-Meter and Theater Average for the weekend. That, and it's a documentary, a polarizing one at that, and it's behind the intellectual fare of Zombieland and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, fine movies in their genre, I'm sure. Perhaps those movies are more to your liking. Maybe Invention of Lying is the movie you should go see.
"Capitalism", a documentary and basic polemic film, opens against "Zombieland" and "Toy Story 3D" and "The Invention of Lying" and still manages to garner a solid showing? Very respectable. Plus, it's getting good basic reviews from both viewers and "authentic" reviewers.
I think Michael has done another acceptably good job.
Then you need to be open to such a discussion and conduct it honestly.
There are people who frequent this site who would be glad to engage you in this kind of discussion, but most of us will ignore outright belligerence. If you want to open a dialog you have to stop accusing everyone who disagrees with you of being racist troglodytes. That isn't an argument, it's an insult. It's a way of avoiding a discussion, of shutting people up.
Ball's in your court, but you've given yourself quite a handicap. Life is short and I don't have time—or any need—to defend my motives or question anybody else's.
This is the book I'm reading right now, Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg(you can read the first chapter for free right here), and I wish you would read this in an attempt to understand what I'm trying to say, instead of hurling accusations at me.
Colour me unsurprised. Millionaire capitalist makes anti-capitalist movie.
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and Olby-bathtub boy?
Colour me to embarassed to be having a conversation with you about 'reality.' I think your reviewer (?) used the word in a sentence. Haha!
Here's the ACTUAL data for the weekend: Notice Capitalism: A Love Story is fourth in T-Meter and Theater Average for the weekend. That, and it's a documentary, a polarizing one at that, and it's behind the intellectual fare of Zombieland and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, fine movies in their genre, I'm sure. Perhaps those movies are more to your liking. Maybe Invention of Lying is the movie you should go see.
If you want, I would like very much to have a discussion about the nature of being and social/economic systems and their effects on human behavior. The goal being how best to facilitate the evolution of humanity. That is what I am interested in.
Then you need to be open to such a discussion and conduct it honestly.
There are people who frequent this site who would be glad to engage you in this kind of discussion, but most of us will ignore outright belligerence. If you want to open a dialog you have to stop accusing everyone who disagrees with you of being racist troglodytes. That isn't an argument, it's an insult. It's a way of avoiding a discussion, of shutting people up.
Ball's in your court, but you've given yourself quite a handicap. Life is short and I don't have time—or any need—to defend my motives or question anybody else's.
Start back a post or two and try and understand the implications of what you've just written: maybe who wrote the check to finance it is utterly irrelevant to the content. Maybe the content is what matters.
If you want, I would like very much to have a discussion about the nature of being and social/economic systems and their effects on human behavior. The goal being how best to facilitate the evolution of humanity. That is what I am interested in.
Start watching at ~5:30 for how his movies continue to get made even though it might appear that he bites the hand that feeds him. Don't bother to watch the earlier part where he talks about all that messy complicated stuff about the relationship between social justice and capitalism.
Start back a post or two and try and understand the implications of what you've just written: maybe who wrote the check to finance it is utterly irrelevant to the content. Maybe the content is what matters.
So when you watch TV in the US you get all that crap all over the screen? The flashy bit top right, the banners top'n'bottom, the big name dodaa bottom left every 10 seconds in case we've forgotten who we've been watching in the last 9 seconds?
Cunning old broadcasters. Not so much subverting the message but drowning it out under a barrage of visual stimuli.
Cynical? Moi?
You are right, it's brutal, awful to watch, I try to watch as little as possible, still, some things suck me in.
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Oct 4, 2009 - 4:55pm
Atman wrote:
Start watching at ~5:30 for how his movies continue to get made even though it might appear that he bites the hand that feeds him. Don't bother to watch the earlier part where he talks about all that messy complicated stuff about the relationship between social justice and capitalism.
So when you watch TV in the US you get all that crap all over the screen? The flashy bit top right, the banners top'n'bottom, the big name dodaa bottom left every 10 seconds in case we've forgotten who we've been watching in the last 9 seconds?
Cunning old broadcasters. Not so much subverting the message but drowning it out under a barrage of visual stimuli.
Cynical? Moi?
*edit* Nah, I'm just grouchy and a bit tetchy. Bit weird that there's so much going on while you're trying to follow a discussion.
Start watching at ~5:30 for how his movies continue to get made even though it might appear that he bites the hand that feeds him. Don't bother to watch the earlier part where he talks about all that messy complicated stuff about the relationship between social justice and capitalism.
