--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sparaig wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote: > > > >> off_world_beings wrote: > >> > >>> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > >>> <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Dick Mays wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> The rise of coherence has fueled a long-overdue purification in > >>>>> national life > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> Hate to say "I told you so", but "I TOLD YOU SO"! (msg 193626) > >>>> > >>>> These guys are about as predictable as they come. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> On the other hand, do you think the world would be better carrying on as > >>> it was, as a greedy, corporate controlled, oppressor of the third world, > >>> polluter of the atmosphere, killer of life in the ocean. > >>> > >>> Something dramatic had to happen. The ME will protect from the worst of > >>> the upheaval. > >>> > >>> I never believed there could ba smooth transition. What is great about > >>> this is that people are realising that even without the capitalist > >>> system going rampant as they were used to...everything is > >>> ultimately...ok.....Life is good. > >>> > >>> OffWorld > >>> > >> OTOH, we could be going into a dark world with no governments just > >> corporations running everything. No rights just slaves to the > >> corporations. Ala Blade Runner. > >> > >> > > > > Bah, Merchants of Venus or Gladiator at Law were two much better examples > > of that sort of thing. > > > > > > Lawson > Maybe so, but I picked Blade Runner because Ridley Scott in his > commentary on the "final cut" version talks about it being a totally > corporate state. Also Alien vs Predator Requiem (as it's director > points out) explores how the world in "Alien" became corporate run. >
Yeah, but... the central theme of Bladerunner was NOT the corporate state. DOn't get me wrong, great movie and Phillip K. Dick was a great writer, but the theme wasn't examining the future from a corporate state POV... that was peripheral to the story. In Merchants of Venus, its ALL about corporate life. There's a great scene where the President of the USA is helping the heros escape from the White House, saying that he would hold them (the corporate hounds) off as long as possible: they had forgot to rescind his ability to give the military orders. Lawson
