> Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> >But at the moment there isn't enough to give everyone once-a-year
> >vacations at Kapalua Beach in Hawaii a broadband connection to the
> >internet, or a large-screen TV-VCR on which to watch their own
> >copies of "Don Giovanni," "Casablanca," "The Seven Samurai," and
> >"The Rules of the Game" when it strikes them.
> >
> >And then there is the problem of creating people who will realize
> >that they really want to watch "The Rules of the Game" instead of
> >"Survivor IX: Eating Rats and Backstabbing Your Fellows in the
> >Amazon," and realize that they want to be connected citizens and
> >species-beings rather than anomic liberal individuals.
>
> To create a growing audience for _The Rules of the Game_ (1939),
> etc., we need movie theaters & social milieus of politically-engaged
> organizers & intellectuals, *not* 12 billion large-screen TV & VCR
> sets!
>
> Yoshie
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And 21st century clowns to enthrall/enchant the kiddies :-)!!!!
Ian