WALL-E Wars II: All Early Noise to the Contrary,Perhaps the Movie is Actually an "Indictment of Liberalism"!

Ahhhh, Ambiguity, thy name is WALL-E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or as one of oxymoron's students once famously queried, "so you're saying there's lots of different ways to interpret it?"

Comes today's piece by the erudite Paul Edwards, entitled "WALL-E's Indictment of Liberalism".

Some fun snippets in a read that one can't quite believe actually exists, even though it is quite mainstream in its scope and intent:

WALL-E is the story of what results when a liberal vision of the future is achieved: government marries business in the interest of providing not only “the pursuit of happiness” but happiness itself, thus creating gluttonous citizens dependent on the government to sustain their lives. The result is a humanity consisting of self-absorbed, isolated individuals with no affection for others, who thus defy what it means to truly be human.

And a Much-Needed Bible Lesson, on the House:

One might immediately surmise that the creators of the movie received their inspiration from Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”

Not so fast. While in the storyline humans certainly have laid waste the planet, and the government’s answer to the crisis is the removal of humans (which is also Al Gore’s solution), 700 years after the last human has left the planet it becomes quite clear that the earth needs humans just as much as humans need the earth. After all, in the Bible we learn that humans were created as caretakers for the planet: “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it” (Genesis 2:15).

Finally, in a comment perhaps more piercingly intellectual than any Harrogate has ever seen in the history of political and cultural debate:

WALL-E exposes a fundamental flaw in the liberal worldview. In their well-intended desire to lift people out of despair, liberals often fail to factor in the depravity of the human heart. Offer a man the opportunity to get something for little or nothing and the ultimate end will be a man who believes himself entitled to everything for little or nothing.

You get the idea. Capitalism is our God-Given way of neutralizing our own depravities and becoming instead warriors for the righteous and the good. Yea, forsooth, capitalist society in its undiluted form brings out the very best in all of us, rich, poor, everyone in between. The only time capitalism is even remotely problematic is when the government gets involved in it.

The essay, in short, is filled with one gynormous assertion after another, and really, ye don't have to have seen WALL-E (Harrogate, as of yet, still has not) to be entertained by its affect of reasonableness.