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Re: Extropianism
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Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:36:04 GMT
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LPIENIAZEK@antispamNOVERA.COM
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Jesse Long wrote:
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> Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message
> news:37B9F885.8F93F075@voyager.net...
> > But I thought we were making sweeping generalizations, so I was
> > preparing to tout the market as a better judge of quality than critics
> > or film students... :-)
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> What a very Libertarian statement.
Thanks. I appreciate your recognising it as such. Really.
> It exudes great faith in the masses.
Whereas the alternative is to say you have no faith in them? How very
elitist of you. Next I suppose you'll be telling me that government can
make better decisions about my life than I can? I'll put my faith in the
common sense of the people, making individual decisions, thanks.
> I can't say I'd agree, given the popularity of, well, just about every fad
> ever to come out. That, and in this capitalistic society everything you'll
> ever want is determined in advance by the corporations and every reaction
> you have to the nightly news is already determined by the news stations.
What makes you think this is a capitalistic society? It's not. It's just
less socialist than some others. I love it when looters rail against
things the looter mentality caused to come into being as evils of
capitalism.
<snip two alternative endings for films>
Thanks for the info on the alternative endings but I fail to see the
point. If you have the funds to make films the way you want and don't
care about getting money back, feel free. Lucas, who had millions of his
and other people's money at stake, didn't. His choice, not yours.
Can you clarify your thesis, please? Are you saying that these
filmmakers should not have ended their films they way they wanted to,
but instead the way you think they should have ended? Why? If not, what
are you saying?
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| Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37BBD004.F53CFD...ger.net... (...) I'm saying that the masses prompted the movie makers in these two cases to dumb down their movies and lower the quality because they didn't like the endings. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:37B9F885.8F93F0...ger.net... (...) What a very Libertarian statement. It exudes great faith in the masses. I can't say I'd agree, given the popularity of, well, just about every fad ever to (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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