vitanola
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Doesn't sound like some want to adhere to the reminder that politics are banned for good reason.....
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"It is not, and was never intended to be, a hot spot of current political debate. "
I suppose that if you call 1776 current...
Many seem to consider ideas with which they agree to be "political", whilst those which they find to be congenial are merely "common sense". This tendancy has been with us for a long while, but has become greatly exaggerated in the past generation, particularly since, say, 1996.
This forum is devoted to discussions of the so-called "Golden Era". Some have devoted a great deal of time to the study of the actual period in question, immersing themselves in the surviving cultural artifacts and the other minutae of the period. A few have taken considerable pains to study also the political, philosophical and economic underpinnings of the culture of that lost time. Often "moderns" are seen to project their current political positions on their rosy view of the "Golden Era" in ways that are most profoundly ahistoric. This is, I think unfortunate, and is, in it's effect quite profoundly political, in the modern, rather than the historical sense.
I'm quite familiar with Adam Smith, but that's not the point. I'm trying to reconcile these two statements from Sheeplady, not Adam Smith:
"Exploitation is about power and the powerless. It has so little to do with anything BUT power." and
"So, yes, I think they are getting exploited. People can say that they're making money hand over fist- but they aren't making money like the people who produce these shows are."
The first statement says it's not about compensation, the second implies that it's *only* about compensation, as if they were making the same money as other sitcom actors, they'd ceased to be exploited.
Excellent point. One which I missed entirely. I saw the statement which Sheeplady made and added my own baggage to it.
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