Because movies fix things!

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So all us anti-war, dubbya-detesting people are to unite. We are to do something important. We are to join together, and with one voice:

Watch a movie?

Yeah. 'Cause that will make things all better. The huge flows of money back and forth, the power of humans demonstrating in the streets, the fight of the next election, the grass roots organizations are all as nothing compared to some hipsters inviting their friends to watch a cool movie. Plus bonghits.

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Re: You can't fight in here! This is the projection room!

[flipzagging.livejournal.com]

I'd like to say it's a good idea. After all it's important to have a variety of tactics in any political movement. And to make things fun.

But I hate this idea. What the hell does Dr. Strangelove have to do with the New American Empire Century? Even as a base-broadening tactic it's moronic. A frickin' BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE? That'll pull in the kids, yessir.

I used to call it "the leftist liturgical calendar". When Dec 1 rolls around, you do the generic World AIDS Day protest, and the movement self-polices to make sure the message is exactly the same as it was last year. And year by year any sort of engagement with real politics recedes, it becomes a ritual of mouthing the same slogans and having the same thoughts. Finally in 2003 people think watching 40-year-old comedy is some radical act.

Re: You can't fight in here! This is the projection room!

[frobisher.livejournal.com]

Given your comment "A frickin' BLACK AND WHITE MOVIE? That'll pull in the kids, yessir.", it apparently is a radical act. :-|