Tag Archives: Adam Smith

A BLIND DATE WITH BLIND FATE

”In both the film and its source, the scandalously popular novel by Fanny Hurst, Ray has economic and social options other than life in the Back Street. It may be the devil’s bargain under the patriarchy, but it is a … Continue reading

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LIKE PULLING TEETH

”That there is a gigantic combination of the money dealers, a powerful international trust of usurers, asserting a superiority above all jurisdictions, and having for its servants the so-called statesmen and potentates of various nations, who willingly register the decrees … Continue reading

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MR. TAMBOURINE MEN & THE WAR DANCE

The idea of American Manifest Destiny is not exclusive to the mid-eighteenth century, though the period of imperial “Westward Ho!” is one of the more conspicuous symptoms of that deeper, existential malady—the messianic mission to make the world over in … Continue reading

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MAN, THE MARKET and THE MESSIAH

Pious consumption. As Easter is upon us, so is a recurring drama of what the holiday means. Believer based critiques as opposed to the deeply secular and atheistic. It is often a case of the message overwhelming the medium and … Continue reading

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By the Skin of Their Teeth

A ninety second viral spot filmed in a hand- held style in downtown Toronto ; a washed out palette that raises the spectre of post-apocalyptic films like Children of Men.Its called called ”Moms Against Climate Change” and aims to raise … Continue reading

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Michael Moore & Voltaire's Public Intellectual

Capitalism: Aggressively Indifferent or Passively Aggressive ,it is a an easy target; a path of least resistance for our current head priest of the churchof secualar leftism, Michael Moore to preach from the sermon of this years new film release … Continue reading

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