A plague on both your houses!
Gentlemen, civility, please, I beg you.
This site is a film site. F I L M ! This is not the Johnny come lately debate society on the war issues in your lives. I appreciate your enthusiasm but this thread had to do with a work by a gifted filmmaker. He was not drawing comparisons to wars or terrorists acts. He was trying to make his own interpretation of a literary work.
I would plead for some calm, here. This is how bad feelings get started between members. One of the great things about this film site is that we, those of us who call ourselves members, are a group interested in discussing the various aspects of films and filmmakers. I admire each and every one of you or I would not return to site looking for validation. The contributors to this site are educated in the arts, the sciences, and many of us continue to work in those fields. So please, do not throw confrontations about as if we were at war with ourselves (which we are not!).
I would remind you of the words by H. L. Menken:
"Imagine the creator as a stand up comedian and at once the world becomes explicable."
You both have valid points of view that belong in a different forum.
Widening Gap Could Lead To Civil War
stevetseitz: "All the "gap" really tells us is how wealthy a society is. If the gap isn't widening it is then that we need to start worrying."
tabuno: My hypothesis is that there comes a point in any society that a large enough gap between the rich and poor, especially without much of a middle class, that that society will crumble and destroy itself through civil war or revolution when the majority of the people become so impoverished and upset at the rich, elite class that they denounce the economic system, loose trust in their government to provide a fair and equitable society, where the rich become powerful and use the system to their own benefit and where democracy becomes not a society based on people votes but on money votes. A rich/poor society inevitably becomes a democracy in name only where the people don't govern, but just a singular class of people, those who control the economic power of a country, the media, and eventually the government itself, not for the people but for themselves. I'm worried that America is beginning to show evidence of this decline and division that could threaten to tear our country apart. The final war against America may come not from the outside but from the inside.