Posted on 11/22/2013 4:26:19 AM PST by Lucky9teen
Check out the video at the link...it speaks for itself and it'll amaze you.
A millionaire complaining about the rich.
nothing new but you got one hit to your site
Very confused young man...
What a dumbass!
Why doesn’t he right the world by giving all his money to some homeless guy, and getting himself incarcerated. Just because the soundbites sound good and kind of rhyme, doesn’t mean they make any sense.
My first thought is that he may be on drugs.
Why do we even consider a professional entertainer to be a person of significance?
**Why do we even consider a professional entertainer to be a person of significance?88
I wish you could ask Hannity that.....night after night, he reports on A. Baldwin’s latest escapades....and feeds into Baldwin’s purpose.
Meathead.
Exactly
I would also throw in there a guilt complex.
I can’t get the video to load, what is he doing now?
So, you believe he is a victim of mental disorder, and not on drugs?
Oh, for the good ol days when dope was something you did with the paper covering on model airplanes...
There’s a lot here that resonates … that communism and serfdom, fascism and slavery are ALL evil … and that we, the people, have the right to alter or abolish tyrannical government.
When he says that obedience is the problem, it is evocative of the words of Jefferson, “it is the right, no the duty of the people.” Or, the expression, resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
But, the confusing part is Matt Damon denigrating the rule of law, and his ignorance of the real progress that is occurring in the world with the spread of liberal, democratic capitalism (even while it is atrophying in the US).
Apparently, Damon thinks that in some prior time man lived in peace and prosperity and then something happened whereby a few enslaved the many. No, before the modern era, man lived at the edge of survival; indeed, all of life lived at the edge of survival. The survival of fittest was the rule. Even societies based on slavery were an advance, as despicable as slavery now is.
Then, with the development of the rule of law, slavery was made obsolete. Slave-based societies and even centrally-planned economies cannot achieve the level of productivity that free people can achieve. This, really, is the shame to our country of not ending slavery peacefully, because it had become obsolete and we should have figured out a way other than by civil war to free the slaves.
Today, with the rule of law, the ordinary person lives better than the kings and queens of the past, and more is available in charity - whether family-based, church-based or government-based - for the poor. Think of it: schooling for the children of poor families is not controversial. What is controversial is whether this must be secularized, government-run schools, or could schooling reflect a degree of parental choice?
With regard to ending poverty in the world (using the UN definition), in the past thirty years, thirty percent of the human race moved from poor countries to middle income countries. Today, the last region of poverty - Sub-Sahara Africa - is on the threshold of middle income. Soon, only isolated places, whether by geographic remoteness like Afghanistan or by political remoteness like North Korea, will be poor.
But, Matt Damon suffers the left-utopian delusion of “the noble savage.” It is a cult-religion and is contradicted by reason and observation.
> I would also throw in there a guilt complex.
I say it’s false humility directed to the camera lens for public sympathy. Its just to project the image he wants the public to see IMO. Whether its how he reall feels remains to be seen. Bet he changes his mindif he can’t find work and goes “poor” for awhile...
Someone who is paid millions to play pretend in front of cameras is now pretending to not like being a millionaire. Those actors sure are zany!
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