tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18745582.post5888110356885443820..comments2023-05-27T10:50:20.637-05:00Comments on Literatrix: LimitlessJennifer Snowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00039865566870992465noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18745582.post-58945848588553090132011-07-23T13:14:19.670-05:002011-07-23T13:14:19.670-05:00By presenting intelligence in this light--as an am...<i>By presenting intelligence in this light--as an amoral faculty of luck and deceit--what Limitless really conveys is a profound hatred of the intellect. But this isn't the misguided yet honest hatred of a man of limited intelligence who is suspicious or envious of something he cannot have. This is a form of what Ayn Rand called "hatred of the good for being the good"--a wish, not to seize a value, but for it to cease to exist. It is a parade of anti-intellectualism wearing the trappings of the intellect, all the worse for its sheer banality.</i><br /><br />Jennifer,<br /><br />I don't know if you realize this, but what you describe in the above quoted paragraph is the very essence of the soul of the Left; and make no mistake about it - the Left controls Hollywood. 'Limitless' was, in essence, a movie version of John Rawls "moral luck" argument. Rawlsianism egalitarianism is the ideological core of Leftism, along with altruist ethics.<br /><br />From what I have seen, there isn't even a Conservative movie coming out of Hollywood these days. Not that I would want that, but my point is that egalitarian Leftist ideological elements are injected into nearly every movie. Which is why I watch fewer and fewer of them with each passing year. <br /><br />--JackAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com