These propaganda pieces aren't for our generation or the illegals clamoring by the thousands into our nation daily to find jobs.
This film and others like it are for the young and clueless. The under 24 crowd that drive movie sales. Like an Ayn Rand novel come to life, the entertainment industry works to get the middle class to say yes to self-immolation. To get citizens to see all other people of all nations as "victims" of their prosperity.
There are enough ignorant people in the world who really do believe that stuff. There are lots of poor illegals who want to believe it. There are even more selfish people in the world who don't really believe it, but who profit from such a false and destructive ideology and will exploit it - many of them the very 'super rich' that the film try to portray as monsters. Ironically, many are monsters. But not because they want to keep people out. Quite the contrary, the evil rich want to restore de facto slavery by sustaining a two-tier economy. An economy of the very rich on top - and the poor illegals and their descendants on the bottom. They don't need a middle class. It serves no useful purpose to a monopolist. In fact, a middle class just threatens a monopolist. A monopolist seeks a nation filled with poor, uneducated purchasers - the more dumb the better.
As for the young, they don't know what to believe. They are very easily programmable. Just wind 'em up give them a 'cause' and they will keep marching in the direction you point them at least until they hit 30 when they start to wake up and see the world more clearly. It's no wonder the jurists in ancient Athens couldn't be under thirty years of age.
In Rome, the emperor Caracalla (who killed his brother, lawyer and almost everyone else he encountered) made all people in Roman territory Romans and conferred upon them certain rights. This was his revenge on Rome. By doing so he began the decline of the Empire and the period of 30 tyrants had its start as more barbarians from all over felt entitled to Roman wealth and lifestyle. The lamp of civilization was dimmed and this same thing can be seen today.
Whether it be a Kardashian, Kanye or a Miley, culture is pandering to those with the least intelligence and imagination. We are witnessing the move away from science and exploration to a culture centered around 'selfie'-indulgence, self-affirmation and a populace that are addicted and controlled by screens and prescription drugs. At any college or high school you will now see kids not talking to each other - just walking and staring at their personal screen. They are desperately lonely and want a cause to embrace - to feel human again in an age of robotizing.
So the middle class self-immolates as the barbarians flood the gates. Elysium is just designed to spur more flickering corpses.
Those who buy into it, deserve the life they get and need none to pity them.
The Darwin awards play out every day at every scale one can observe or measure.
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- "Elysium" Pure Propaganda
- The sad thing is...
- Elysium is next on my Netflix queue...
- Sesame Street looks better and better to me.
- "Belizium" Pure Propaganda
- Usual pablum for the usual audience.
- Do you believe the Conservative agenda is anything else that this?
- It's only propaganda if you don't believe it.
- You may be overthinking it
