Quote of the Day

From Greg Easterbrook -

Capitalism Will Make a Movie About the Hanging of Capitalism:

The new movie 'Fast Food Nation,' which ridicules fast food as a corporate conspiracy, is produced by the cinema division of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, a multinational. 'An Inconvenient Truth,' which tells us big corporations are destroying the world, is distributed by Paramount Classics, owned by Viacom, a multinational. Many recent thrillers and action movies depict big corporations as evil, and the movies are produced and distributed by big corporations. Presumably this happens because the evil corporation is a hackneyed cliche of screenwriting, and in recent years Hollywood has produced little beyond hackneyed cliches. But consider: Perhaps sinister corporations have some secret reason for wanting us to think big corporations are sinister.