OK, maybe I am a little late to the party here, but has anyone else had one of our neocon brethren explain how the "Hunger Games" is Hollywood's long awaited nod to their social philosophy? I have heard over the air for the past few months (about the movie and the books), that the "Hunger Games" is exactly the type of inevitable future people like Paul Ryan are fighting against. I had thought this to be little more than a curiosity, clearly they couldnt have actually read the book or seen the movie, until recently when a conservative friend of mine (who has little idea of my political leanings), explained that this was exactly what the conservatives were fighting against and what the liberals wanted to usher in. Never mind that district 12 (the coal mining region in the book) was exactly the kind of conditions Rick Santorum describes his grandfather working in. Never mind that the medicines that seem to cure everything in the book, are not available to the poor (see ACA), that the gap between rich and poor is close on to what has been generated over decades of conservative rule, and that only those with enough money can control the media (see Citizens United).
Never mind the obvious flaws in the comparisons which equate social liberals to the decidedly Tea Party like government where only a few wealthy can have a voice (see voting law restrictions in FL). How, I wonder can any rational (or awake) person see anything in this other that this is the world that conservatives wish to build?
Then, today I got my answer: low effort thinking
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Yup, it seems that books like Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" which was written with a political bias in mind, and the "Hunger Games" which was not, are all written at about the 6th grade reading level. Ideal, one might say for the conservative mind. So I guess if one doesnt put too much thought behind it, it is quite simple to come up with any meaning you want.