The Politics of the Hunger Games

[sunoftheskye]

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[cuterabbit33]

Writing for the Frederick Douglass Foundation, Mack Rights argues that there’s not only a powerful conservative message in Hunger Games but a Christian one, as well, since the story takes place after "liberals have succeeded in erasing God and Christ from the culture completely by successfully creating their own utopia - which is really a dystopian nightmare for anyone not in the liberal ruling class."

HEY. NO. You keep that shit away from my book. I enjoy the series because there's not a drip of religion anywhere in it!

[sakuya_baby]

Fucking this.

[riath]

This. Definitely this. Why does someone always have to bring God and Christianity into it?

[myrrhmade]

Exactly. UGH

[farting_nora]

“While the global political class and their enablers in the media to this day try to explain away droughts and the resulting famines from an 'Act of God' point of view, the simple truth is that economically free countries don’t suffer them.”

wut

[beoweasel]

If only there were more countries like Somalia, eh?

[13chapters]

It isn't true that economically free countries don't suffer droughts, but there isn't usually a resulting famine because existing infrastructure creates alternate means for water and food. Here in California, drought is always a threat and sometimes prices on produce do go up because of lack of water, but we never have to worry about actually starving because we have the ability to bring in food and water from elsewhere, to use emergency stores, etc. So he's half right.

[roseofjuly]

The Southeastern U.S. has been suffering a drought/repeated droughts for years and years now. I remember growing up in Georgia there were alternate days that you could run your sprinklers depending on your house number, and we were encouraged to keep showers to 5-10 minutes.

[we_got_caught]

Ugh, I just know that Republicans are going to latch on to a scene with President Snow talking about "hope" and equate Snow to Obama....

[danceprincess20]

I thought the same thing while I was watching that scene!

[eyetosky]

Nevermind that Collins has gone on record saying that Snow is based on Bush. XD

[theoryofwar]

There's a church near me trying to milk it for all it's worth. I guess it's because it was filmed here? IDK. But almost all the theaters had food drives going on for the midnight showing.

[wicked_g]

But almost all the theaters had food drives going on for the midnight showing.

+1 tbh

[theoryofwar]

Agreed. I loved that part the most.

[ceilidh]

THIS

[pandaseal]

Apparently not.

[mschaos]

in a word? NO