Any movie that changes based on the climate is just whoring for tickets. I really have trouble, however, believing it was Raimi that made it happen. This was his first blockbuster, and while he did it his way, some things just got taken out of his hands.
And this isn't to say that I'm a SW fan. I enjoyed the movies as a kid, and I enjoy the movies now. But they're just movies. Not films, not mythology, not high art. And Lucas is squeezing every penny out of them.
I'm not sure what the poster is getting at with this. The agenda of environmentalists is to protect the environment. I don't see how this is selfish, nor could be hiding behind it a darker motive.
Many of the cornerstones of the environmental movement (composting, high fuel economy, energy efficiency, solar energy) are in fact better and cheaper alternatives to classical living. I suggest that due to this, demonization comes from many who believe that this makes for bad consumers. It does, and energy and other suppliers are fighting back. Example: Power companies now charge large distribution and 'grid-access' fees to compensate for energy-efficiency profit loss.
And to those who don't know, Ken Lay had his own desk at the White House.
I think the point is missed.
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Globalization is not hated for what it should be, but for what it is. Communism and National Socialism are great ideas in theory, but the greed of individuals in those systems turn them sour.
Globalization promises, in theory, increased wealth and quality of life for everyone in the world, but so far in practice has yielded corporations a way to get cheap labor in countries with lax human rights and environmental controls.
The most recent issue of Wired was a good example of this globalization, in its article on Flextronics manufacture of the Xbox. Cheap labor ($4 an hour) for technical manufacture jobs.
Globaliztion has so far amounted to increased wealth only of the countries where the corporations originate.
I think fear of this process is founded just looking at the record so far.
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Any movie that changes based on the climate is just whoring for tickets. I really have trouble, however, believing it was Raimi that made it happen. This was his first blockbuster, and while he did it his way, some things just got taken out of his hands.
And this isn't to say that I'm a SW fan. I enjoyed the movies as a kid, and I enjoy the movies now. But they're just movies. Not films, not mythology, not high art. And Lucas is squeezing every penny out of them.
I'm not sure what the poster is getting at with this. The agenda of environmentalists is to protect the environment. I don't see how this is selfish, nor could be hiding behind it a darker motive.
Many of the cornerstones of the environmental movement (composting, high fuel economy, energy efficiency, solar energy) are in fact better and cheaper alternatives to classical living. I suggest that due to this, demonization comes from many who believe that this makes for bad consumers. It does, and energy and other suppliers are fighting back. Example: Power companies now charge large distribution and 'grid-access' fees to compensate for energy-efficiency profit loss.
And to those who don't know, Ken Lay had his own desk at the White House.
Globalization is not hated for what it should be, but for what it is. Communism and National Socialism are great ideas in theory, but the greed of individuals in those systems turn them sour. Globalization promises, in theory, increased wealth and quality of life for everyone in the world, but so far in practice has yielded corporations a way to get cheap labor in countries with lax human rights and environmental controls. The most recent issue of Wired was a good example of this globalization, in its article on Flextronics manufacture of the Xbox. Cheap labor ($4 an hour) for technical manufacture jobs. Globaliztion has so far amounted to increased wealth only of the countries where the corporations originate. I think fear of this process is founded just looking at the record so far.