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From: TimF	6/19/2008 11:19:29 AM
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My response to a blog commenter that argued that Hollywood is libertarian. That it makes anti-government movies because it follows the interests of the big money studios and investors - "dec - Many movies are anti-government, but not really libertarian. The point pushed is more likely to be "government screwed this up", or "we have evil people in government", or "if only we could get the right people in government", or "we have to change government", more often than it is about the inherent problems of governments controlling so much of society and the economy no matter who is in power. The actors and actresses may be "hired help", but they are high priced and influential hired help (at least the top tier is), and directors, writers, etc. also tend to have some bias to the liberal side of the spectrum. Meanwhile the studios, and other big money backers of movies tend to be more about making more money, than they are about pushing a political agenda, and to the extent they are pushing any political agenda its hardly a consistently libertarian one." tigerhawk.blogspot.com