Lurker Rants, Too!

[Mark.Novitz at ny.ubs.com]

     Andrew Dinn:
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     Our problem is that Spielberg's film suggests that free market capitalism 
     can stop future holocausts, that free market capitalism is the best 
     safeguard any nation has against totalitarianism, that the war was not 
     initiated, fuelled and milked by free market capitalism but by a relatively 
     small bunch of sick fanatics whose better natures had been corrupted by a 
     small inexplicably but ineradicably evil bunch of Nazi thugs. I need hardly 
     add that we believe we have God (aka TRP) on our side.
     
     
You and I can discuss the merits and demerits of free-markets and killing and 
saving Jews whenever you like.  But 54 million other people came away from that 
movie thinking about nothing even REMOTELY close to that level of analysis.

I'll bet my left nut on that.  There's nothing wrong with your level of 
intellectuallism (read previous post: it's why I'm here lurking in the first 
place)--but you've got to step down for one god-damned minute.

You must be out-of-that-high-mind-of-yours if you think that any more than a 
tiny percentage (or even less than a percent) of the viewership came away from 
SL thinking that "free market capitalism is the best safeguard again 
totalinarianism".  They probably didn't even think of the words "free" "market" 
and "capitalism" in the same sentence.  Granted, _you_ did, and a bunch of other
people, but not 55 million.

The other 54.9 million saw something that made them wonder about simpler things:
how'd that happen?, what if that were me?, do we know anybody who was there? why
are they doing that to them?

Is this so hard to understand?  Fact of the matter is that _your_ film about the
fuelling and milking of Free Market Capitalism leading toward a Jewish Holocaust
probably wouldn't be seen by 1/100th of the people that watched SL Sunday night.

Sometimes you have to make concessions for the better of the population at 
large.  This is one of them.  Take it or leave (it).

I'm done.  Thanks for letting me have the floor.

/mark/
/nyc/