This movie doesn't take sides,
That's the problem. Alex is an enlightened centrist hack who thinks he's superior to people because he doesn't have legitimate beliefs. He just wants the right and left to live in harmony and sing kumbaya. It's even more ridiculous to suggest this given that the actual civil war was about slavery.
Don't believe me? He admits this himself:
“All it would take is a bit of reasoned discussion to understand what is meant by [left and right-wing politics], in a species that is particularly bad at having words that everybody universally accepts the meaning of. That’s not fucking rocket science” – Alex Garland
Why are we shutting [conversation] down? Left and right are ideological arguments about how to run a state. That’s all they are. They are not a right or wrong, or good and bad. It’s which do you think has greater efficacy? That’s it. You try one, and if that doesn’t work out, you vote it out, and you try again a different way. That’s a process. But we’ve made it into ‘good and bad.’ We made it into a moral issue, and it’s fucking idiotic, and incredibly dangerous … I personally [blame] some of this on social media. There is a an interaction that exists human-to-human that floats away when it reaches a public forum.”"-Alex Garland
Such an insufferable hack.
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Keelai (34864)
7 months ago
A democracy needs at least two political parties to be viable. Those parties need to compromise and cooperate with each other. They take turns winning and losing elections, but they're still part of the democratic system.
The movie's president was a fascist who wanted to destroy democracy. That's when you put aside your partition differences and unite to defeat a Fascist. If we can't, then we're doomed to see events in the movie become real. Democracy is very fragile.
"How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt
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Narwhale37 (1227)
7 months ago
Stop posturing. There's a literal fascist threat to democracy now who attempted a coup against the country.
Time to pick a side.
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Bucky (280)
7 months ago
Perhaps a democracy needs more than just two sides to be viable. It also needs an informed electorate.
Any more than four or five parties and you get a non-functioning democracy as nothing gets done.
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Keelai (34864)
7 months ago
"informed electorate"
We're in serious trouble.
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Bucky (280)
7 months ago
Yeah, that's what happens when education suffers cuts for the last fifty years. People believe in Pizzagate.
At least they love the Affordable Health Care Act; it's a lot better than Obamacare. I find it funny to mention this to some and look at their face to see if they understood.
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moviebuff00 (819)
7 months ago
not really. it doesnt need two parties as much as a democracy is better than a monarchy. it's all about the right leadership. if we had augustus as emperor today, that country would do way better than an average democracy. singapore had basically one party for 50 years, it's the best run country in asia.
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