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re’s No Place Like Utopia” is a new movie by Joel Gilbert, the same director who made “Dreams from My Real Father: A Story of Reds and Deception”.
In his new movie Gilbert uses the themes of Oz and Utopia to describe what is happening today in the USA:
The idea of Utopia, paradise on earth, goes back to Plato’s Republic, to Thomas More, and to Karl Marx’s ‘workers paradise’. However, its just a fantasy, it can never exist on earth, its fiction. Despite this, socialists, who now call themselves “Progressives,” believe Utopia is a realistic model for the modern nation state. Tragically, 100 Million people were killed by Progressives in peace time in the 20th Century under the guise of recreating human beings to fit into Utopia.
The analogy is well deserved. The fundamental lesson of the Wizard of Oz is that there is no wizard. Obama has made promise after promise that have all turned out to be empty. The people I met who supported him were literally living in dungeons in the witch’s castle, everything had changed for the worse all over America.
The movie starts predictably enough with a tornado that takes Gilbert to what should be a strange and distant land, but is in fact the America of today. He visits the wreckage of various parts of the country that have been under the control of the Left the longest, and thus suffered the most: Detroit, South Chicago, Newark, etc. He examines the history and origins of the Leftist policies that are gutting America, and new policies that threaten to completely destroy what is left. He sees the despair and hopelessness that results from fraudulent promises, and shows Obama and other radical Leftists for the frauds they really are.
I think the movie is a bit too long, and it meanders a bit from place to place, issue to issue, sometimes without a clear connection as to why. All the same it is a thought provoking movie that should play well “to the choir” without insulting the real victims of the Left: Obama supporters. Perhaps undecided non-Conservatives who watch this movie may come away with some things to think about.
Gilbert provides a clear and cogent explanation of what is wrong, but I really just want one question answered: How to fix things? In the movie Gilbert returns from the Hellish Oz that is Obama’s America, and goes back to his home in rural Tennessee and visits his family. It is a nice and sweet place. He ends the movie back in California (I think) on the beach waiving an American flag while jogging in the waves. (I don’t think I spoiled the movie by giving you the ending — it is a documentary after all.)
How to fix things? Go back to the few places in America that have not yet been corrupted by 50 years of Leftist manipulation? Or waive a flag and declare your undying devotion to the America of bygone years? The first option seems to be nothing more than delaying the inevitable, and the second will most likely get you locked up in a mental ward or worse. Conservatives are often very good at pointing out what is wrong, but not so good at explaining what needs to be done. This movie shares that same characteristic.
Enjoy the trailer:
While browsing Amazon (I don’t actually buy anything from that website, since I don’t want to give money to Jeff Bezos, but it is a good website to browse for books), I came across this book on another “liberal” “Utopia”: https://www.amazon.com/Canada-Decay-Immigration-Diversity-Euro-Canadians/dp/1910881937
Where do you buy your books?
If I don’t buy them in person, I order them either through this Croatian website (https://www.superknjizara.hr/) and if I can’t find it there, then I buy through eBay.
Since you a book reading enthusiast as well, I have a question, do you by any chance know of any online bookstore that specializes (or at least holds) in selling English translations of (old) French books, I have been trying to find an English or Croatian translation of this (https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41WHWjr3xbL.jpg) book, but I can’t find it anywhere.
I must admit that I just buy through Amazon. I hate it but it works. If there was another service that worked as well, and was less socialist, I would use it. But there isn’t. As for English translations of French books, that is a bit too complicated for me.
I obviously always knew that laissez-faire was a French term, but until recently I never really bothered to check the origin of term, namely it is the French translation of the Chinese term Wu wei, which is a philosophy that is one of the basic tenets of Taoism, and Quesnay along with many other French capitalists at the time admired Imperial China and it’s system, so he wrote the above book, I think that it should be an interesting read.
Speaking of France…: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/01/20/french-leftists-complain-children-diverse-paris-district/
The “liberals” are the biggest bunch of hypocrites in existence, they “love” “vibrant diversity” until they actually have to live with it.
Another interesting book which I have found: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-India-Untold-British-Enterprise/dp/1472924827
I obviously haven’t read it yet, but just from it’s title and description it is obvious to me that is should be obligatory reading for students in Anglo countries (and beyond), to defeat the ridiculous notion that “colonial” rule was bad for the “natives”, British rule was so “horrible” and “racist” that millions of people from the Indian subcontinent have moved to the UK since India and Pakistan became independent and elected leftist politicians, who have of course ruined both countries.