05-27-2015, 06:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-27-2015, 07:07 PM by FireIceTalon.)
That statement is NOT an honest assessment of the theater situation. Having to choose your seats at a theater at the time of purchase does NOT equate to some loss of freedom or a big government conspiracy theory as she implied. Do people complain about a loss of freedom with having to pick their seats when purchasing an airplane ticket, or not being able to park in a red zone? Not typically.
And it has everything to do with politics, and even if it didn't she sure made it so with her comment. She turned a simple task of choosing her seats into a political issue, if it wasn't political beforehand due to the fact that is the companies policy, which in itself is a form of politics. The intersection near my apartment just had a traffic light put in there because there were many complaints about the lack of a light - that is political too. Any form of policy, or rules, in ANY sector of society indicates the existence of politics - especially when such policies are upheld through ANY type of force.
Also, I'm not sure you know what a buzz word is. A buzzword doesn't have to be a made-up term to impress people. It can also be a normal word that a particular group likes to throw around but has little meaning in the context of things. Often they are used to present a particular concept to be something that it really isn't, or something perceived to exist but really doesn't. Democracy, freedom, and entitlement are unquestionably buzz words, often used to obfuscate the real or contradictory social workings of a (capitalist) society.
Lastly, the capitalists are indifferent (at best) to whether I can buy a house or not. What they care about is making a profit, and nothing else. If it is profitable for them for me to be able to buy a house, they will be all for it. If it isn't profitable, then no. This is why supply and demand is a folly concept. In most markets, demand is artificially created through means of advertising to be able to generate profits (for instance, the beauty industry makes billions of dollars off women's insecurities through advertisement and the perpetuation of cultural sterotypes of what beauty is), while at the same time the capitalist system creates artificial scarcity because it is based on production for profit and not human need. That is why there is such a huge demand for clean water and electricity in the 3rd world, but little supply of it - because it isn't PROFITABLE to supply those things there. There are almost as many empty houses in the United States as there there is homeless people. This is a real-world description of how the capitalist system ACTUALLY works at its core, regardless of whatever idealized version you have of it.
And it has everything to do with politics, and even if it didn't she sure made it so with her comment. She turned a simple task of choosing her seats into a political issue, if it wasn't political beforehand due to the fact that is the companies policy, which in itself is a form of politics. The intersection near my apartment just had a traffic light put in there because there were many complaints about the lack of a light - that is political too. Any form of policy, or rules, in ANY sector of society indicates the existence of politics - especially when such policies are upheld through ANY type of force.
Also, I'm not sure you know what a buzz word is. A buzzword doesn't have to be a made-up term to impress people. It can also be a normal word that a particular group likes to throw around but has little meaning in the context of things. Often they are used to present a particular concept to be something that it really isn't, or something perceived to exist but really doesn't. Democracy, freedom, and entitlement are unquestionably buzz words, often used to obfuscate the real or contradictory social workings of a (capitalist) society.
Lastly, the capitalists are indifferent (at best) to whether I can buy a house or not. What they care about is making a profit, and nothing else. If it is profitable for them for me to be able to buy a house, they will be all for it. If it isn't profitable, then no. This is why supply and demand is a folly concept. In most markets, demand is artificially created through means of advertising to be able to generate profits (for instance, the beauty industry makes billions of dollars off women's insecurities through advertisement and the perpetuation of cultural sterotypes of what beauty is), while at the same time the capitalist system creates artificial scarcity because it is based on production for profit and not human need. That is why there is such a huge demand for clean water and electricity in the 3rd world, but little supply of it - because it isn't PROFITABLE to supply those things there. There are almost as many empty houses in the United States as there there is homeless people. This is a real-world description of how the capitalist system ACTUALLY works at its core, regardless of whatever idealized version you have of it.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (on capitalist laws and institutions)