Michael Moore is a pig and despite what he wants you to think about himself, he's a capitalist pig. Moore made his millions by making so-called documentaries that trash capitalism and the institutions that built this country. He wants you to believe you can get better health care in a Cuban hospital than in a modern American facility. He knows that it isn't true, but that's how he makes his money.
The movie business is all about capitalism. You pitch the idea for a movie to a studio. If they like it, they look for investors to front the money and you either make it or you don't. If the movie makes money, the investors make money and you, as the guy who pitched the idea makes money. Sometimes, if you are a small timer, like Moore was in the beginning, you find your own investors. Those are simplistic examples, but either way, Moore made millions as a movie entrepreneur and he's made other people lots of money along the way.
Because Moore hates capitalism, he decided to make a movie disparaging it. True to his repugnant satirical style, he calls it, "Capitalism - A Love Story".
Moore is one of those Socialist ideologues that are style rich and substance poor. He plays a buffoonish, self-styled protagonistic role, but that's all it is. It's a role. Because he has a particular point of view he wants to push, he heavily skews his films to present it his way. He never has to answer to anyone. He's a bully. He got his start as a bully with "Roger and Me" and he continues with this film.
Moore uses his bully techniques in order to make you think that Capitalism is evil.
Blending his trademark humor with tragic individual stories, archive footage and publicity stunts, the 55-year-old launches an all out attack on the capitalist system, arguing that it benefits the rich and condemns millions to poverty.
"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes.
"You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy."
Capitalism does nothing of the sort, but he wants you to think he's in there fighting for you by filming himself in Quixotic situations such as holding a bag of money in front of an investment bank demanding that they fill it so he can give it back to the American people. I'm not sure what his definition of democracy is, but I'm willing to bet a derivative or two that it isn't even close to what's in the dictionary. What he really means by democracy is "and that something is socialism"
He says this about investing:
"Essentially we have a law which says gambling is illegal but we've allowed Wall Street to do this and they've played with people's money and taken it into these crazy areas of derivatives," Moore told an audience in Venice.
Never mind that investing in films is probably a worse bet than most anything Wall Street can dream up. Most movies either lose money or or make very little profit. Not every film that comes out of Hollywood is a blockbuster mega-hit. The other problem with Moore's statement is that he is a multi-millionaire many times over. Where do you think he keeps his money, in a mattress? Maybe in a glass jar in the refrigerator or perhaps a chest buried in his backyard? Hardly. He invests it and he invests it in the same investments most people invest in. You can bet your last stock certificate he has a an investment banker at his beck and call.
"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie concludes.
Moore is a capitalist. Does that mean he's evil? Maybe, but not because he's a capitalist. Capitalism is not perfect, but then nothing is and no other system of economics has heretofore offered more opportunity or allowed people to be so prosperous. There are poor people, but in America, our poor are considered rich by much of the world. Most have cars, TVs, cell phones and a home that can only be described as a mansion compared to many countries in the world.
Socialism creates a miasmic society that becomes dependent on the state doling out it's alleged largess. When the government provides for your needs, you are no longer a free person. You are now nothing more than a modern day serf called a "villein".
Serfdom was the enforced labour of serfs on the fields of landowners, in return for protection and the right to work on their leased fields.
A villein was a form of serf that was forced to work his lord's field, but could own property and work it as well. In return, his lord gave him a degree of protection. See any parallel there?
President Gerald R. Ford once said before a joint session of Congress: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have"
President Thomas Jefferson said: "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground."
Moore isn't evil, but his ideas are.
VW
Interesting point of view. I suppose the movie will speak for itself
Posted by: Ontario | Tuesday, September 08, 2009 at 06:54
"A villein was a form of serf that was forced to work his lord's field, but could own property and work it as well"
Sounds peachy, a step up rom serfodm. Too bad the left hates property rights too. I'll take villein over the far left's serfdom any day of the week. Real estate tax on a primary residence worth less than 250k is a crime. You don't own your proerty VW, you never will. Stop paying taxes on it the day after you pay off the bank and see how long that property is yours. You can come stay with me.
Moore is evil. Lieing to people to make money of their ignorance intentionally is evil. Making money by trying to convince (or affirm for some idiots) that Cuban health care is even remotely close to American health care in order to line your own pockets is evil. He's the perfect sterotypical corporate whore the left loves to hate but he sells them their own words with editedd pictures and makes a fortune.
Some part of me thinks that Moore is probably a really smart republican. Who knows.
Posted by: BloodyTomMorgan | Sunday, September 13, 2009 at 19:18