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WALL-E: Economic Ignorance and the War on Modernity

Friday, July 04, 2008 by Gennady Stolyarov II

The Disney-Pixar film WALL-E is an assault on modern civilization, borne of deep economic and historical ignorance. First, it makes the Marxian assumption that it would be possible for a single corporation to subsume the entire world. Then the movie shows humanity seeking salvation in abandoning a sustainable automatic food production system — which had apparently worked without fail for seven centuries — and suddenly resorting to traditional agriculture. The creators of WALL-E, sitting in their comfortable Hollywood studios, do a tremendous disservice to the civilization that made their work and high standards of living possible.

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