I actually think hunger games is a pretty right wing movie, in spite of the girl power. District 12 is the most oppressed, worse off than district 11 which is negros. It appears to be west virginia. The capital is totally degenerate and shallow and enslaves the provinces for its own greedy pleasures.
[...] iam pridem, ex quo suffragia nulli / uendimus, effudit curas; nam qui dabat olim / imperium, fasces, legiones, omnia, nunc se / continet atque duas tantum res anxius optat, / panem et circenses. [...]
... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.
—Juvenal, Satire 10.77–81
Very appropriate.
Yeah its insanely germane to the state of our culture rn.
This has all happened before.
The suspense of what will happen. Yes history repeats.
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