New York’s Death Wish
Posted by freedomforall 2 days, 5 hours ago to Politics
Excerpt:
"Things aren’t looking good for the Big Apple. I remember walking through Manhattan with the late, great economist Jim Gwartney, an early mentor who introduced me to Frédéric Bastiat. He said, “You know, Nikolai… I like to visit New York City once a year to remind myself why I don’t live here.”
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In a recent weekly AIER research meeting, I wondered aloud who might replace Charles Bronson in the next round of inevitable New York vigilante movies.
This led me to return to his 1974 classic, Death Wish. It was a pleasure to revisit the 1970s — the cinematography seems campy now, but it creates a gritty realism. I did not watch the next four movies, or the 2018 Bruce Willis remake. But the 1974 original contained some fascinating nuggets of political philosophy."
"Things aren’t looking good for the Big Apple. I remember walking through Manhattan with the late, great economist Jim Gwartney, an early mentor who introduced me to Frédéric Bastiat. He said, “You know, Nikolai… I like to visit New York City once a year to remind myself why I don’t live here.”
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In a recent weekly AIER research meeting, I wondered aloud who might replace Charles Bronson in the next round of inevitable New York vigilante movies.
This led me to return to his 1974 classic, Death Wish. It was a pleasure to revisit the 1970s — the cinematography seems campy now, but it creates a gritty realism. I did not watch the next four movies, or the 2018 Bruce Willis remake. But the 1974 original contained some fascinating nuggets of political philosophy."
We should not be resisting these policies. We should be cheering their overwhelming implementation, demonstrating their complete failure. NYC people elected their leader overwhelmingly. We do not try to save these people.
Go, go government control and socialism in NYC!!! Go!
Show us your failure. Become a Abysmal, negative example ... so the ignorant can finally learn.
Go, go, stupid is as stupid does! Go!
Lather, rinse repeat.
Long time ago on another board years before I landed here, me old dino had a fictional socialist telling some fictional others that "My brand of socialism will this time work because I'm gonna do it with good ole Yankee ingenuity."
succumbed completely to the corrupt perverts who have run the city for the past 40 years.
The entertainment on Broadway was still mostly wholesome with some realism added.
By the late 80's it had turned away from traditional family oriented fare to multiple
perversions headed for the utter removal of historic accuracy replaced by perverted
racist/sexist propaganda, e.g., Hamilton and the accurately named Wicked.
Economically, the thieves of Wall St have been destroying NYC for at least a century.
Mamdani can finish the job they started.
Can we erect a wall to keep em from migrating south? We’ve already got yankees doing damage to our economy.
AR, MS, AL (among others) have fewer Yankee invaders than NC.
NC has been a destination for NYers since RJR was sold to Nabisco 40 years ago.
What happens now won't be pretty, but they voted for it.
for decades can be so utterly irrational when evaluating government and politicians.
The NYT has been very effective at gaslighting its readers.
It's just so astounding to compare this current state of affairs with the evoking imagery of industry , freedom, and rationality that inspired Ayn Rand upon her arrival. As she found out, the rot of worms in the Big Apple was already hard at work.
BUT, we hear the news every day like it was in our state, (Corupicticut) and you couldn't pay me to go to the city these days.
Even the one with Willis.
IMHO.
Why, same stuff, different days. They cover a range of people who are impacted by this crap. Yes, usually the poor take the brunt. But Willis is targeted because he is rich. Stealing his address from his GPS in his car was a nice touch in my opinion. (I don't care if they track everything, I am not breaking the law. UNTIL the trackers start breaking the law, or their systems are hacked, and now they know: Your Address, Your Purchases, and your LACK of weapons!)
It's funny how the movies that are popular move with the sentiment of the country. Sometimes ahead of it. Hence the amount of Dystopian films over the past 20yrs...
Power corrupts and will use every tool to maintain and gain more power.
I did enjoy the actual justice of the original Death Wish movie.
Impale the traitors on the national mall.
Government will never seek justice when it is the source of criminal acts.