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Peter and I watched Equilibruim tonight, and it’s interesting. Given that Christian Bale’s dad married the fish-needs-a-bicycle gal, I don’t think its what they intended, but it’s very much a film set in the future of leftists.

Obviously they intended that the world, one without art or music or beauty in order to limit feeling, be the obvious consequence of Karl Rove cutting arts funding in public schools, made doubly obvious by all the “Religious Right” stuff thrown in, the Naziesque Greek Cross as the flag, the burning of the witches (witches, of course, were beautiful women who rebelled against the patriarchal society with beauty and the arts), the gunning down of the rebellion, all of whom looked like Eastern Europeans mowed down by Germany’s SS, and of course the SS cut of the “Cleric’s” uniforms, the name “Cleric” itself, and so on, you can see without much difficulty by midway through what they intended. But the beginning, with minimal character exposition on the world and how it came to be that way, and only slight character development, it looked very much like the world a liberal would very much like us to live in.

Human beings are, after all, inherently evil. They need strict, tight controls on their behaviour, otherwise they head straight for genocide. That’s exactly what the European Union Politicians were telling the Europeans would happen if they didn’t vote for the constitution. But of course the smart people, who know better than the blood-thirsty rubes, are good, and they know what’s best, so put all the power in their hands and see how lovely it is? No more war, no more strife, no more bad feelings. Everything is perfect. But there’s a problem: beautiful things make people feel, then become jealous, then become enraged and kill, so better remove all the beautiful things. But people are still feeling, so dope them up so they don’t ever second-guess the rules that are put forth by the smarter people to do what is good for society. Ritalin.

And that is what liberals believe. They think that they’re smarter than society as a whole (”it is tempting to wonder whether democracy is not wasted on voters,”) - Judith Armstrong) and that society as a whole are inherently evil, and whose natural state is perpetuating a holocaust on their neighbors, so the smarter ones, the liberals, need to control those people to keep them from themselves (”There are those who want to scrap the supranational idea. They want the European Union to go back to the old purely inter-governmental way of doing things. I say those people should come to Terezin and see where that old road leads.” - Margot Wallstrom). And isn’t Ritalin used on school children to get them to not rebel? Otherwise they might assert their individuality, and that would make it harder to indoctrinate them on all the liberal ideals in life: sex ed, American history, European history, postmodern family structures, etc. And besides, if the little worm isn’t drugged out of his senses, he’ll just go beat someone up, so isn’t it better to deprive him of any consciousness, because, after all, the liberals know what’s best for him.

And as for the religion thing, what’s the difference between a strict adherence to the word of God to control one’s behaviour (which they think is so horrible) and strict adherence to the word of a liberal (which they think is so necessary). At least the word of God has worked for a couple millennia. You don’t need to make a cross a symbol liberalism; it already is a religion.