Stephen Fry on the Rubin Report
Hissecular themed show gets some of the most interesting guests around, and Rubin is a thoroughand often combative (but always affable) interviewer. In his latest segment, only elevenminutes long, he talks to Stephen Fry about political correctness. (Fry objects to being interviewed for longer than that.) The take home message, to quote Fry, is fears that the advances of the Enlightenment are being systematically and deliberately pushed back.
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An idea I heard from someone else (can remember who, but it was a commenter here or on my own blog) is that because religion is part of the state, rebelling against the state includes rebelling against religion. I think there something in that.
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One example that comes to mind from the recent rash of super hero movies is Guardians Of The Galaxy. I really enjoyed that movie. Another frivolous movie that I really like, going back a bit further, is Luc Besson The Fifth Element.
I agree about superhero movies. There nothing about the genre that says they have to be rubbish. It all depends on the individual movie.
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(I think the series, for example, are genuinely exciting partly because they keep a rein on the blowing up of things).
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Fry remarks on Monarchies are timely as most people in the west are conditioned to believe they are evil forms of government. Actually if you have good and fair Monarchies, they can be the best form of government. Much more efficient and productive than anything we have.
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