What is "Hunger Games" really about? My theory, without having seen it? It's just another calculated, pre-election bit of Republican propaganda.
It's a dramatic/propagandistic presentation of Rush Limbaugh-style, Right Wing Myth. The virtuous countryside - read the midwest Red States - are enslaved by the evil capitol - read Washington, and old liberals. J They must pay "tribute" to the old capitol leaders. Just like, Rush says, young people and Republicans are forced to pay Social Security, for old liberals. And a "corrupt" Washington, corrupt old folks. Who are? Just taking young peoples' lives away. By making them pay for Social Security.
In part, to be sure, its about teen rebellion; young people trying to get out from under what Hawthorne called the "dead hand" of their precedessors, the adults, and the Baby Boomers. But more than that, it is political. The author, Collins, was born in 1962. And her story is just repeating the classic Gen X myth, from Rush Limbaugh: that rich trust-fund hippie liberals, the fat cats in Liberal Washington the "capitol" - just don't understand working class whites down in coal town, the "Seam"; don't understand their West Pennsylvania need for a few simple values to guide them, through their poorer lives. Old establishment folks are allegedly, just making the young people work to pay for ... our old folk luxuries, like food and Social Security. While that Social Security - Limbaugh said - won't be there for them, in turn, when this generation is old.
A lot of big movies these days - especially just before elections - are actually, carefully-engineered progaganda. It began when years ago Ronald Reagan - the old actor and former Army/movie propagandist - called republican Hollywood to his office. To see how they could help out the Republican cause. And they helped out, I'd like to note here: with a movie called "Independence Day." Just before the Repubican Party ran two ex- jet fighter pilots for president - George Bush and/or John McCain - Independence Day helpfully presented to the country, the idea that a fighter-pilot President - read Bush, and/or McCain - was what we needed to save our country.
Thanks Ronald, and the RNC, for another one. Another good Republican propaganda movie, just before the 2012 election.
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