The anti-capitalist sentiment , whether in earnest or with an ulterior motive, is altogether too present in mainstream media.
Having watched an excellent horror movie called "Beau is Afraid", the third from director Ari Aster, and in desperate need of some analysis of this extremely metaphorical film, I stumbled upon a piece in the LA Times which opined:
"To believe that the city is a miserable death trap for all its inhabitants, Aster suggests, is to think like Beau (a coward with no sense of self) or, worse, his mother (a rapacious capitalist merely envisioning violent cities from her palatial enclave)."
It's so casually put to the reader, in this instance by writers Matt Brennan and Josh Rottenberg of the LA Times
(but these remarks are commonplace in media) , that capitalism is synonymous with being cold, unfeeling and greedy. I could find no end of such off-the-cuff remarks in mainstream media.
My thoughts on this are that this defamatory usage is levied not at "Capitalism" , but at wider system of corruption and inequity that stems from money printing, bailouts, self-regulation of the banking sector, the cantillionaire effect, but these are abhorations in a free market and cannot themselves be included in any honest criticism of capitalism, and yet, consistently are!
Wierd movie btw, would recommend , 10/10. Don't expect it to make sense.
