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    Thanks for the analysis of "globalists" - though it seems we've not listened to the same movie clip.

    See for example Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness', where the beliefs and convictions of the tribes are deemed much more profound and impressive than the global/imperial trends c. 1900. I've posted this clip on Saidit as a way of seeing if others see the parallels with the imperialism and racism in contemporary anti-vaccine culture, by comparison to Brando's/Francis Ford Coppola's comments (and Conrad's views, for those who read Conrad). Coppola's and Conrad's approaches are somewhat anti-imperial and anti-racist, though framed in imperial and racist settings. Anti-vaxxers believe so strongly in their anti-science approaches that they also frame those approaches within other political dialogues that are against the 'other', against the empire, against 'globalism', against non-whites, against non-Christians, against liberals, against Democrats, against poor people, against almost everything except their personal feelings. Ironically, the 1% have manipulated these anti-vaxxers to believe the expensive anti-vax propaganda. And now the anti-vaxxers are a powerful force in the US and some other countries, who can help prolong COVID mutations and spreading, help Amazon/Bezos to get rich from online sales, help the 1% get votes for ironically named anti-establishment GOP candidates who are spewing anti-science and racist hatred in D.C. on a regular basis in order to appeal to this influential group of anti-vaxxers.

    So I genuinely want to know what Saidit thinks of this movie clip and its potential connection to the anti-vax movement, for better or worse.

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      I would agree that all of this is part and parcel of the imperial trends c. 1899, 1979 [1970), and now, and are indeed the kinds of trends critiqued by Joseph Conrad and John Milius, though as bystanders while the empire (major global economies) continues on its path of destruction.