Re:Great movie with free market touches (Score 1)

THAT'S it... Conservative, Liberal, Libertarian, Socialist!!! You guys just don't get it... The crux of the movie isn't FREE MARKET--- (By the way, only in America does free market mean liberty and freedom) The world of Miranda was a world where they were forcibly trying to get rid of ALL human impulse! That's not the same as trying to get cheap medicines for folks, or spending tax money to help folks help themselves. NOT THE SAME THING--Liberalism has been portrayed as that by subliterate right wing weirdo Christians and uber-literate liars (Friedman comes to mind). Mal didn't want people to be made "better" in the sense that there are some folks (radical religious types) who think people are born bad-- (remember that Book tells Mal to believe in himself). This is much more about the impulse to make humans "better" because of the human impulse to be perfect that is always fraught with pitfalls. This is not the truly conservative world of Clockwork Orange-- where it's posited that we shouldn't even try to help the psychotically violent. If anything this is more about religious impulses gone awry and not economics--- BTW Joss backed Kerry and really dislikes Bush.