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22. Ironic

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Thu Feb 20, 2014, 01:23 PM

Feb 2014

Considering that entertainment is one of the main perpetrators of modern complacency. Bread and circuses. No one is going to put themselves on the line to make any meaningful change. If they do, they might not get to see the next football season...or...the next Hunger Games film.

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Donald Sutherland: 'I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution' [View all] Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 OP

I wonder which districts are Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 #1

There's a moment in the movie of Catching Fire where Katniss glances out the train window winter is coming Feb 2014 #2

I agree, but PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #3

Those of us who are really tried like hell to re-elect him catbyte Feb 2014 #4

Also.. PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #5

Yeah, yeah, yeah, and your generation voted in dubya. Twice! Iggo Feb 2014 #11

Uh, NO PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #12

You're merely rationalizing the sins of this generation at this point, holding it to a lesser standa LanternWaste Feb 2014 #56

That is true PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #57

Youth has always been the catalyst for change dreamnightwind Feb 2014 #71

I worked for Carter. hunter Feb 2014 #45

Don't Blame the Canadian. CBGLuthier Feb 2014 #6

It is not personally directed towards him PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #7

This site amazes me; notemason Feb 2014 #9

So you are saying PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #10

Apparently you are aware of how dubya was placed at the helm.. 2banon Feb 2014 #15

Exactly, and the corporate media spent a lot of air time... prairierose Feb 2014 #23

A whole lot more to the back story than what we were perceiving vis a vis the media. n/t 2banon Feb 2014 #24

Iran-Contra. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #90

You dumbshit, why don't you learn about what he did? Armstead Feb 2014 #34

Hey Buttlick. If you could fucking read, it was not a personal attack against Sutherland. PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #37

Sorry about the gratutious insult. I should have been more tactful Armstead Feb 2014 #40

Thanks PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #41

Perhaps you are just ignorant of his activist history? /nt demwing Feb 2014 #61

I knew he was an activist PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #62

I'm sorry, but that's jus not fair. MY generation FOUGHT HARD against all of this, and continue to. 2banon Feb 2014 #14

And his generation ushered in a new eara Scruffy Rumbler Feb 2014 #16

He can't be blamed for the actions of his whole generation. nt pnwmom Feb 2014 #19

That is one helluva broad brush you're painting with. riqster Feb 2014 #20

will you stop blaming ME? Skittles Feb 2014 #26

That's a fairly broad and totally unfair generalizaton Armstead Feb 2014 #31

^^ A reply to all above PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #36

Here's the thing: NO one said that to you tkmorris Feb 2014 #46

Hmm. PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #47

Yes I can tkmorris Feb 2014 #63

And here is what NONE of you seem to get PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #65

Not only did we participate, we are all complicit with the lack of justice in the years since power Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #77

Where were you when Occupy started nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #49

Occupy is great PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #50

In other words you were sitting at home nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #51

Be careful what you judge PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #53

I am not judging, at least not anymore than you are. nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #54

True PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #55

That's ok, my serious posts are done off site anymore nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #58

I know PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #59

^^^^^This^^^^^ Jesus Malverde Feb 2014 #75

Just exactly who are you lashing out at here? Jackpine Radical Feb 2014 #78

Millions of us were against Reagan, free trade, media consolidation and the rest. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #89

Wow! Le Taz Hot Feb 2014 #100

Erm...what kind of revolution? Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 #8

In the book her sister and mother had fair skin and hair. So the fact that her skin was olive pnwmom Feb 2014 #21

I guess we'll never know what the author intended because, unlike Stephenie Meyer, she didn't Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 #27

The director says the author was present at all the auditions and approved the choice of Lawrence. pnwmom Feb 2014 #28

I stand corrected. Baitball Blogger Feb 2014 #30

X valerief Feb 2014 #13

Boy, that's it in a nutshell.. 2banon Feb 2014 #18

aggghhhhhh grasswire Feb 2014 #35

I-Phone age has all but nutered the youth of today. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #17

Hardly Scootaloo Feb 2014 #32

unemployment is less than 7% true or false ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #42

And there are people on DU who think middle class white kids with no shirts on ended the Vietnam war Scootaloo Feb 2014 #48

I'm saving this. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #66

I prefer to call it "perspective" Scootaloo Feb 2014 #83

We anti-war activists did NOT end the War in Viet Nam. It boggles my mind whenever I hear that meme 2banon Feb 2014 #97

John Lennon's Music was revolutionary 2banon Feb 2014 #96

Student debt has a lot more to do with it than Iphones nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #60

absolute it is more complex than I-phones,.... NM_Birder Feb 2014 #67

Gahs many of those kids WORK full time jobs nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #68

Who woulda thunk it ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #70

you said they were lazy. And did not work nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #72

No, I asked "How Many"... see how easy it is to not keep up ? NM_Birder Feb 2014 #73

Read the blogs? kcr Feb 2014 #85

meh...blogs whatever, inter google blah blah...notice how NM_Birder Feb 2014 #103

Probably because it's irrelevant to your horseshit claims kcr Feb 2014 #109

specifically what "horseshit" claims. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #110

Now I see...YOU called them lazy LOL NM_Birder Feb 2014 #74

Enjoy your stay on DU nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #76

Predictable. NM_Birder Feb 2014 #80

LMAO noiretextatique Feb 2014 #82

no.. the honor is all mine.... NM_Birder Feb 2014 #104

The way to use phones in a revolution will come from Tunisia rather than Silicon Valley. Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #101

Ironic Dopers_Greed Feb 2014 #22

That's what Hunger Games is about though. pamela Feb 2014 #25

"You know the young people of this society have not moved in the last 30 years." Scootaloo Feb 2014 #29

"Be sure to cash your checks first, Colonel Sanders." Enthusiast Feb 2014 #91

Ugh, there was really no side to pick in the Hunger Games. dilby Feb 2014 #33

What percent of "popular" revolutions are fascist revolutions? XemaSab Feb 2014 #69

Enough with the negative waves man! n/t hootinholler Feb 2014 #38

That ain't my fault, Oddball, Ichingcarpenter Feb 2014 #39

Woof woof! JoePhilly Feb 2014 #95

Robert Reich's comments on "Why There's No Outcry" LongTomH Feb 2014 #43

And Reich is very correct nadinbrzezinski Feb 2014 #52

I don't really get this comment. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2014 #79

Exactly. I don't think debt or money had anything to do with student led resistance in the past okaawhatever Feb 2014 #88

Exactly Puzzledtraveller Feb 2014 #105

The 2 foot-in-the-door issues: Living wage, debt. Eleanors38 Feb 2014 #102

Love this guy! n/t Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2014 #44

HAHHA, people don't even vote in local elections, there isn't going to be a revolution JI7 Feb 2014 #64

"voting" 2banon Feb 2014 #98

You look at our society and you see a lot of the central themes of this story davidn3600 Feb 2014 #81

Coin for President! she'll be a total 180! MisterP Feb 2014 #84

That's how I feel about The Lego Movie. Warren DeMontague Feb 2014 #86

+1 jsr Feb 2014 #87

K&R woo me with science Feb 2014 #92

This message was self-deleted by its author clarice Feb 2014 #93

Donald Sutherland's private beach house. clarice Feb 2014 #94

Hey The Guardian, why did you put "starving Americans" in scare quotes? Matariki Feb 2014 #99

Hunger Games stirring up a revolution? Vashta Nerada Feb 2014 #106

"The young generation can't stop taking pictures of themselves to do anything in that magnitude." PowerToThePeople Feb 2014 #107

Yeah, because this is about me. Vashta Nerada Feb 2014 #108