They are to blame!
Rick Cotton, one of NBC Universals CEOs recently made an interesting point about what evil movie piracy does to the world:
"Because of our nation’s interlocking economy, two-thirds of the lost earnings and lost jobs are in industries other than motion picture production. For example, in the absence of movie piracy, video retailers would sell and rent more titles. Movie theatres would sell more tickets and popcorn. Corn growers would earn greater profits and buy more farm equipment."
In other words: Movie piracy is to blame for farmers not getting the hard-earned money they deserve.
Or interpreting it on a bigger scale: Movie piracy is responsible for curbing economic growth of ALL sectors - the service sector (movie theatres), the agricultural sector (corn growers), the industrial sector (farm equipment) and in the possible infinitive extension of the above statement a good financial state of every single individual (farm equipping industry employs people, who buy all kind of stuff, and the industry itself needs ressources and the providers of these ressources again need other things).
Damn these movie pirates!
Not that I want to say that piracy is a ethically good thing, but my point is that these kind of seemingly logical argumentations are able to twist our image of reality to an extent dangerously near to brainwashing (or probably it already is, eh?), without really providing a more un-biased view on reality. They are merely manipulation tools to serve the purpose (in this case assumably money/power) of the one using them.
"Ah, it's obvious, don't be a smartass!", you say?
Well... In fact, we face these kind of manipulations every day and often in a much more subtle way, unconsciously forming tiny points of view, gradually influencing our perceptions and over time adding up to a completely artificially shaped set of worldviews, principles and even values originally not having been our own ones.
We are exposed to mostly monocausally built curriculums where everything is in place, makes sense, will work. And to make it even harder to see this, questioning is even allowed and encouraged. But what kind of "challenging" questions are we getting in our courses? What kind of answers are given to us? Everything has to take place within a certain frame and follow a certain order.
The real revolutionary questions and ideas are often punished with the argument of not fitting into the frame, of being inappropriate, of being illogical.
And at that point, almost nobody dares (or is even able) to question the very fundamental paradigms constituting this "logic" and gives in to what is in place for him to think. Almost nobody undertakes the dangerous adventure to challenge seemingly fundamental parts of his own assumed identity. Almost nobody wants to risk the basics of his existence (as for example an university title or a seemingly highly desirable position would be) by deconstructing what lies within them.
Well, lets turn the tables for our little example.
If more movies were pirated, people would have more money available that they would have spent for the movies. They would go out to eat more often and better food. So farmers would sell more of their products and would have more money for their farming equipment.
In other words: The movie industry is to blame for farmers not getting the hard-earned money they deserve. Tschakka!
Now, who is to blame?
And who dares to really think deeper than we are supposed to think?
Source: Public Knowledge
"Because of our nation’s interlocking economy, two-thirds of the lost earnings and lost jobs are in industries other than motion picture production. For example, in the absence of movie piracy, video retailers would sell and rent more titles. Movie theatres would sell more tickets and popcorn. Corn growers would earn greater profits and buy more farm equipment."
In other words: Movie piracy is to blame for farmers not getting the hard-earned money they deserve.
Or interpreting it on a bigger scale: Movie piracy is responsible for curbing economic growth of ALL sectors - the service sector (movie theatres), the agricultural sector (corn growers), the industrial sector (farm equipment) and in the possible infinitive extension of the above statement a good financial state of every single individual (farm equipping industry employs people, who buy all kind of stuff, and the industry itself needs ressources and the providers of these ressources again need other things).
Damn these movie pirates!
Not that I want to say that piracy is a ethically good thing, but my point is that these kind of seemingly logical argumentations are able to twist our image of reality to an extent dangerously near to brainwashing (or probably it already is, eh?), without really providing a more un-biased view on reality. They are merely manipulation tools to serve the purpose (in this case assumably money/power) of the one using them.
"Ah, it's obvious, don't be a smartass!", you say?
Well... In fact, we face these kind of manipulations every day and often in a much more subtle way, unconsciously forming tiny points of view, gradually influencing our perceptions and over time adding up to a completely artificially shaped set of worldviews, principles and even values originally not having been our own ones.
We are exposed to mostly monocausally built curriculums where everything is in place, makes sense, will work. And to make it even harder to see this, questioning is even allowed and encouraged. But what kind of "challenging" questions are we getting in our courses? What kind of answers are given to us? Everything has to take place within a certain frame and follow a certain order.
The real revolutionary questions and ideas are often punished with the argument of not fitting into the frame, of being inappropriate, of being illogical.
And at that point, almost nobody dares (or is even able) to question the very fundamental paradigms constituting this "logic" and gives in to what is in place for him to think. Almost nobody undertakes the dangerous adventure to challenge seemingly fundamental parts of his own assumed identity. Almost nobody wants to risk the basics of his existence (as for example an university title or a seemingly highly desirable position would be) by deconstructing what lies within them.
Well, lets turn the tables for our little example.
If more movies were pirated, people would have more money available that they would have spent for the movies. They would go out to eat more often and better food. So farmers would sell more of their products and would have more money for their farming equipment.
In other words: The movie industry is to blame for farmers not getting the hard-earned money they deserve. Tschakka!
Now, who is to blame?
And who dares to really think deeper than we are supposed to think?
Source: Public Knowledge
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