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a truly socialist paradise she will create a new breed of humanity that is capable of living there she will turn her own daughter eleanor into the mother of a new human race where everyone s memory lives in everyone where individualism as we know it has simply been bred out of the breed as lamb herself says utopia will arrive when the first utopians come to claim it anyone familiar with the socialist ideal of the new man knows the kind of horror that leads to the socialist utopia can only be built on a foundation mortared with the bones of non utopians the existence of even one counter revolutionary puts the entire socialist enterprise at risk lamb herself points this out to the player cursing subject delta because his psychic connection to eleanor lamb has infected her with individualism causing her to act in defiance of the family s wishes the social imperatives first laid down by sophia and hardwired into every member of the family comparing jack ryan and subject delta the protagonists of bioshock and bioshock 2 makes for an interest study in contrasts the first game had the player playing as a man who believes himself to be free only to find his mental conditioning has chained him in the worst sort of slavery imaginable the second game has the player playing as a big daddy a person so twisted and warped that all semblance of individuality and free will is supposed to have been eliminated and in fact it s pointed out throughout the game that the reason you re traveling to find eleanor is that you literally cannot help it you ll die without her yet within your slavery lie the seeds of freedom the choice to kill or save the little sisters is the only truly free choice you have in both games the ultimate result in both cases is the same you ll pretty much be able to win therefore with no external consequences only the dictates of your conscience can guide you as they say morality is how you behave when you think no one is watching we may be a slave to circumstances but our reactions to circumstances can set us free even at the cost of our own lives the odysseys of jack ryan and subject delta are great examples of the contradictions of the human animal we are not cheetahs we are not cows we are wolves we are pack animals playing a perpetual game of king of the mountain just as a human alone is not a human neither is a being without self interest our entire history is a constant struggle between the pull of society and the struggle for a freedom we can never truly attain our nightmare is that we re smart enough to understand this yet stupid enough to try and change it if there s one lesson to take away from both bioshock games it s this beware utopians lamb herself points out during the game that the word utopia comes from the greek for no place our current social turmoil is just a repeat of an age old struggle between social controllers and the price of freedom the realization that granting any amount of freedom to a society means that someone s going to use it in ways we don t like often in ways that hurt other people i ve raised my flag with those willing to pay that price often enough but merely believing in maximizing human freedom as much as possible doesn t make me an anarchist i acknowledge that i am a social being i am a member of the pack and i owe some sort of duty to the social body the fact that lamb and socialists like her are subscribers to a monstrous theory doesn t make andrew ryan right like most of us i m stuck in the middle far closer to ryan than lamb but forever trying to strike a balance between the two that can never be found comments 2 comments tags 2k a pack not a herd andrew ryan angry bear ayn rand bioshock bioshock 2 collectivism communism gaming geek culture instapundit irrational games ken levine objectivism pc gaming socialism politics ps3 rapture sophia lamb videogames xbox 360 categories articles gaming news reviews avatar the new testament of the church of the left 26 01 2010 so against my better judgment i decided to fork over a bit of my hard earned cash to multi gazillionaire james cameron in order to take in his latest big budget extravaganza avatar i freely admit that i came to the movie prepared to hate it after reading quite a few of the reviews and seeing pretty much the whole story in the trailers i liked this movie the first time i saw it when it was called dances with wolves i was braced for the inevitable political sucker punch i wasn t disappointed it wouldn t be a james cameron movie after all if it didn t take a smack at conservatives republicans the military corporations technology and contain the underlying marxist world view that shows up in much of cameron s work despite all that i found myself enjoying the movie nobody does popcorn chomping eye dazzling action packed spectaculars better than cameron and avatar shows off cameron at the top of his game the movie is stunningly beautiful the world of pandora is a lush eden crafted with the eye of an artist and the latest in cutting edge technology to be completely appealing and wondrous to a crowd of people safely ensconced in a comfortable theater seat in a climate controlled environment remember that it ll be important later the incoherence and stupidity of the plot set aside avatar is a fun movie essentially a beautiful sci fi landscape painting created by a master what i found most interesting though is that avatar is incredibly valuable as a roadmap to the mindset of the modern left wing mind it is essentially the new testament to the anti church of the left allow me to explain that if you ve ever read the work of neil howe and william strauss they predicted years ago the alteration in character that would come over american politics as baby boomers began to take the reigns of national power baby boomers are a prophet generation prophets are values driven moralistic focused on self and willing to fight to the death for what they believe in and they can convince other people to join them in the fight they grow up as the increasingly indulged children of a high come of age as the young crusaders of an awakening enter midlife as moralistic leaders during an unraveling and are the wise elder leaders of the next crisis thus what we re dealing with in modern american politics is a left that is no longer a political force but a religious one one that recognizes no separation between the political the personal and the religious and is not averse to using secular politics as a club to push its agenda it no longer just defines itself by what it opposes western culture individualism capitalism judeo christian religions patriarchy industrialism but has congealed a sort of anti church built on philosophical pillars every bit as dogmatic irrational intolerant and inflexible as anything proposed by a crusading pope basically what this philosophy seems to boil down to is a classic return to eden myth as portrayed in avatar this difference is in the character of that eden rather than an impersonal and patriarchal sky god the centerpiece of this faith is gaia the warm matriarchal communal spirit of the earth this is represented in the film as a literal biological link between the nav i and the native wildlife as well as a bio electric network that links all the planet s life in a sort of communal oversoul humans have sinned against the earth mother through all of those things i previously mentioned as the main character in the movie says he comes from an earth with no green where the humans killed their mother the goddess within the planet once the tenets of the new religion become clear so much of modern left wing thought also becomes clear everything from the zealous belief in global warming persecution of deniers humans as a disease giving the earth a fever to the messianic appeal of barack obama to the embrace of socialism the sinful nature of unapproved extravagances suvs fur coats mcmansions processed foods the attempted suppression of heretical texts fox news talk radio and the enshrinement of perfect equality of outcome not opportunity as the be all and end all of social organization if there is a philosopher i loathe more than jean jacques rousseau i am hard pressed to think of him as awful as modern monsters like noam chomsky and howard zinn are they don t hold a candle to the influence of rousseau s theory of the natural man check out this passage the first man who having fenced in a piece of land said this is mine and found people naive enough to believe him that man was the true founder of civil society from how many crimes wars and murders from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind by pulling up the stakes or filling up the ditch and crying to his fellows beware of listening to this impostor you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all and the earth itself to nobody jean jacques rousseau discourse on inequality 1754 that may very well be the most damaging passage written in all of human history and rousseau s fingerprints are all over avatar the romantic and frankly racist idea that mankind in a state of nature is somehow living a better life than those who utilize technonology reminds me of a comment written by p j o rourke paraphrased about how the only people who call the jungle a rainforest are those who have never been there the irony of avatar is that pandora is exactly what rousseau envisioned natural people living in harmony with the land sleeping in a tree that literally envelopes them in love when they lay down for the night and it took the most sophisticated technology mankind has ever invented to create it it s no concidence that people like cameron who view the natural world through the windows of an 8 500 square foot bungalow in malibu or at the wreckage of the titanic through the glass of their own personal submarine have a romantic view of nature like marie antoinette and her court who used to play at being peasants once a year in a suitably cleaned up peasant village james cameron and his ilk sit at the top of technological pyramid supported by an enormous amount of infrastructure built by people who work harder for much less money in much less glamorous circumstances life for folks like cameron is so nerfed and removed of it s rough edges that they don t even realize how utterly removed from the reality of life for 99 9 of humanity throughout history they really are thank goodness you re one of those hot aliens otherwise i d never betray my own species for you at one point in the movie the main character say that the na vi want nothing from us that all we can offer them is light beer and blue jeans ya know for the majority of humans who live lives as natural as the na vi that sounds like a pretty good deal we tend to forget that rattlesnakes tornadoes smallpox a 35 year life span 40 infant mortality and rancid food are also natural these are all things that cameron has never experienced but i guarantee that the na vi have of course neither have i but the difference is i m appreciative of the collossal level of human ingenuity and industry that has worked for two million years to give me a really comfortable life and i never take it for granted nor would i make a movie that called me a monster for encouraging others to improve their own lot in life it s not for nothing that cameron is taking flak for his comments in entertainment weekly that he likes ecoterrorism i m sure he does at least until it s his own house that gets burned or his own movie set that gets sabotaged for kings of the world like cameron money and jobs and economic disruption are just unfortunate things that happen to little people they don t really count anyway after all they re just proles who s major function in life is to fill theater seats in cameron s movies indeed it s sort of ironic that even within the movie the characters rely on a technological solution transferring their conciousness into a cloned body to get back to nature without that technology they can t even breathe the air i think that s a metaphor also but not quite the one cameron meant comments 1 comment tags avatar baby boomers capitalism dances with wolves earth mother entertainment weekly gaia howard zinn james cameron jean jacques rousseau leftists marxist movies neil howe noam chomsky p j o rourke marie antoinette sci fi science fiction socialism the fourth turning titanic william strauss categories articles movies politics reviews disney s give a day get some guilt 11 01 2010 i had an interesting experience this weekend my daughter s sunday school class has gotten involved with disney s give a day get a day program for those of you unfamiliar with the program the basic idea is that if you volunteer a day of service you get rewarded with a one day pass to the disneyland theme park the idea is that everyone in the class and their parents would volunteer to do some tzedakeh or charitable work and we would all go together to disney with the kids as a class this is hardly the first charitable thing my family has been involved with both on our own or with the temple so we were quick to get involved we ended up working down at an elementary school in east la working to clean the place up weeding and resoiling a garden that had been completely overgrown with weeds it was a couple of hours of not tremendously difficult work that really needed to be done and will hopefully make a school in an area that really needs it a better place for education and we get a day in disneyland what i found interesting about the experience though was the conversation i had with a woman who got out of a car loaded down with bumper stickers you know the kinds i mean they say things like coexist and war is unkind to children and other living things and like your rights thank a liberal she carried her self righteousness with her like a cloak and it trailed behind her when she walked her first words to me while we were waiting on the line for our assignments were oh you must be here to get the free day in disneyland not that it was any of her business but i decided to be nice and admit that yes that s why we were there her response typical all these people couldn t be bothered to come out to help others without some giant corporation figuring out a way to make money off of it someone on line pointed out that disney was hardly making money off of their charity since they would be giving away the tickets she pointed out that by getting people into the park they ensured that they would be spending money on food drinks parking souvenirs and all sorts of other things so disney was hardly being completely altruistic i realized that that this is the kind of galactically stupid misunderstanding of human nature that leads hard core leftists to misunderstand the nature of capitalism and embrace idiotic ideas like socialism they somehow believe in something that never has and never will exist the 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