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WALL-E: Economic Ignorance and the War on Modernity | Mises Institute

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The Disney-Pixar film WALL-E is an assault on modern civilization, borne of deep economic and historical ignorance. First, it makes the Marxian assumption that it would be possible for a single corporation to subsume the entire world. Then the movie shows humanity seeking salvation in abandoning a sustainable automatic food production system - which had apparently worked without fail for seven centuries - and suddenly resorting to traditional agriculture. The creators of WALL-E, sitting in their comfortable Hollywood studios, do a tremendous disservice to the civilization that made their work and high standards of living possible.

WALL-E: Economic Ignorance and the War on Modernity WALL-E: Economic Ignorance and the War on Modernity The film's antitechnological, anticapitalist message needs to be exposed and countered by all thinking individuals. Tags: Entrepreneurship, The Environment, Media and Culture 07/04/2008 • Mises Daily • Gennady Stolyarov II Print this page The Disney-Pixar film WALL-E has been adoringly received by the majority of the theatergoing public. This adoration is unjustified. The film blatantly conveys environmentalist, anticapitalist, and antitechnological propaganda — and aims it at

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