You guys in UK/US have it ugly with ISPs… I can do pretty much anything and no one bugs me, watches my bandwith or how many gigs I dl. And I pay about 30 quid for a 10 Mbit
and heres some dumb yanks moaning about the message…
The film’s ecological theme was criticized by conservative commentators such as CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck, and contributors for National Review Online;[28] Shannen W. Coffin said that the film was “leftist propaganda about the evils of mankind”,[29] and Jonah Goldberg wrote that he agreed with the charges of hypocrisy and “Malthusian fear mongering” leveled at the film by others, but said that it was “fascinating” and occasionally “brilliant”.
Patrick J. Ford of The American Conservative said WALL-E’s conservative critics were missing lessons in the film that he felt were appealing to traditional conservatism. He argued that the mass consumerism in the film was not shown to be a product of big business, but of too close a tie between big business and big government: “The government unilaterally provided its citizens with everything they needed, and this lack of variety led to Earth’s downfall”. Responding to Coffin’s claim that the film points out the “evils of mankind”, he argued the only evils depicted were those that resulted from “losing touch with our own humanity” and that fundamental conservative representations such as the farm, the family unit, and “wholesome” entertainment were in the end held aloft by the human characters. He concluded, “By steering conservative families away from WALL-E, these commentators are doing their readers a great disservice”.
