<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	
	>
<channel>
	<title>Comments on: Elysium</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/</link>
	<description>Involvements with reality</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2015 06:56:00 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1</generator>
	<item>
		<title>By: Steve Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15394</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15394</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Better yet she could have brought in a few pet Earthlings and used them as weapons vs the swipples.

Then the swipples could do the same to her faction.

A few more on each side and you&#039;ve got Earth again.

Hey! It&#039;s the story of democracy!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Better yet she could have brought in a few pet Earthlings and used them as weapons vs the swipples.</p>
<p>Then the swipples could do the same to her faction.</p>
<p>A few more on each side and you&#8217;ve got Earth again.</p>
<p>Hey! It&#8217;s the story of democracy!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Steve Johnson</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15393</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Johnson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 20:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our communist government isn&#039;t ever directly communist. It&#039;s entryist.

Obamacare is just the start (it&#039;s actually pretty far from the start).

The cycle is &quot; regulations to screw something up -&gt; more regulations in response to the screw up -&gt; worse screw up -&gt; more regulation&quot; ad infinitum.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our communist government isn&#8217;t ever directly communist. It&#8217;s entryist.</p>
<p>Obamacare is just the start (it&#8217;s actually pretty far from the start).</p>
<p>The cycle is &#8221; regulations to screw something up -&gt; more regulations in response to the screw up -&gt; worse screw up -&gt; more regulation&#8221; ad infinitum.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Muad'Dib</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15374</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Muad'Dib]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:43:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15374</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Clarice, meet the monster Doctor Shockley.&quot;
&quot;Oh we are already well acquainted.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Clarice, meet the monster Doctor Shockley.&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Oh we are already well acquainted.&#8221;</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: VXXC</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15365</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[VXXC]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[O/T but those white male christian terrorists attacked DC yesterday.

Oh wait....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/04/what-pushed-miriam-carey-to-a-capitol-hill-tragedy.html]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>O/T but those white male christian terrorists attacked DC yesterday.</p>
<p>Oh wait&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/04/what-pushed-miriam-carey-to-a-capitol-hill-tragedy.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/04/what-pushed-miriam-carey-to-a-capitol-hill-tragedy.html</a></p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Michael Soren</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15361</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael Soren]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 07:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15361</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[But at the very end [spoiler alert!], the movie pulls what I would think would be it&#039;s main ripped-from-the-headlines allegorical punch--the upshot of declaring all earthlings to be &quot;citizens&quot; of Elysium is *not* that they immigrate there en masse but that Elysium send a bunch of those miraculous (and apparently cost-free) medical cure-all machines to earth.  And wasn&#039;t this the most compelling reason presented for the illegals to attempt to come in the first place: not a &quot;better life,&quot; jobs, or &quot;family reunification,&quot; but to cure their sick children? Apparently the West (to run with the obvious analogy) could have solved the problems of the poor all along at little or no cost to itself, let alone civilizational suicide via mass immigration, just by sharing its medical technology.  

Oh wait... we actually did that, along with green revolution agriculture, the industrial revolution, etc., etc.  That&#039;s what *set off* the third world population explosion in the first place--western medicine and food dramatically cutting the death rates of the poor with no corresponding reduction in births.  This does not seem to have occurred to Blomkamp nor does he appear to have thought through the consequences  of a repetition under even more extreme demographic conditions or... our host is right: this is as much ideological slapstick as he thought he could get away with on the way to infinite stupidity!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But at the very end [spoiler alert!], the movie pulls what I would think would be it&#8217;s main ripped-from-the-headlines allegorical punch&#8211;the upshot of declaring all earthlings to be &#8220;citizens&#8221; of Elysium is *not* that they immigrate there en masse but that Elysium send a bunch of those miraculous (and apparently cost-free) medical cure-all machines to earth.  And wasn&#8217;t this the most compelling reason presented for the illegals to attempt to come in the first place: not a &#8220;better life,&#8221; jobs, or &#8220;family reunification,&#8221; but to cure their sick children? Apparently the West (to run with the obvious analogy) could have solved the problems of the poor all along at little or no cost to itself, let alone civilizational suicide via mass immigration, just by sharing its medical technology.  </p>
<p>Oh wait&#8230; we actually did that, along with green revolution agriculture, the industrial revolution, etc., etc.  That&#8217;s what *set off* the third world population explosion in the first place&#8211;western medicine and food dramatically cutting the death rates of the poor with no corresponding reduction in births.  This does not seem to have occurred to Blomkamp nor does he appear to have thought through the consequences  of a repetition under even more extreme demographic conditions or&#8230; our host is right: this is as much ideological slapstick as he thought he could get away with on the way to infinite stupidity!</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Thales</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15339</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thales]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He could certainly do a lot worse if he intends to keep making movies.

The feeling you get while watching &lt;i&gt;Elysium&lt;/i&gt; is the same with any M. Night Shyamalan movie that isn&#039;t &lt;i&gt;Sixth Sense&lt;/i&gt; -- not quite Lucas prequel hell, but the distinct feeling that the maker has either lost his touch or didn&#039;t  know what made his work good.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He could certainly do a lot worse if he intends to keep making movies.</p>
<p>The feeling you get while watching <i>Elysium</i> is the same with any M. Night Shyamalan movie that isn&#8217;t <i>Sixth Sense</i> &#8212; not quite Lucas prequel hell, but the distinct feeling that the maker has either lost his touch or didn&#8217;t  know what made his work good.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Thales</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15338</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thales]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 13:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15338</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;Where are the Mozarts and Beethovens of our generation? &lt;/i&gt;

They&#039;re making &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-williams-mn0000232480&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;movie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hans-zimmer-mn0000961427&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;scores&lt;/a&gt;.

Progs have trashed the arts bigtime, and classical composition is no exception as it decended into holier-than-thou non-art. Hence the irony of the day: we have the greatest number of amazing classical musicians in the history of the world, but the only contemporary composers with any fame are those who must  confront the reality of a &lt;i&gt;genuine&lt;/i&gt; audience outside their Progressive peers.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Where are the Mozarts and Beethovens of our generation? </i></p>
<p>They&#8217;re making <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-williams-mn0000232480" rel="nofollow">movie</a> <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/hans-zimmer-mn0000961427" rel="nofollow">scores</a>.</p>
<p>Progs have trashed the arts bigtime, and classical composition is no exception as it decended into holier-than-thou non-art. Hence the irony of the day: we have the greatest number of amazing classical musicians in the history of the world, but the only contemporary composers with any fame are those who must  confront the reality of a <i>genuine</i> audience outside their Progressive peers.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: spandrell</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15334</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[spandrell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 08:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;
Watching Elysium, it&#039;s apparent he thinks the human race is probably buggered, although the solution he&#039;s holding out for is reassuringly Blomkampian. &quot;The only way things will change is if we&#039;re smart enough to develop technology that can think us out of this, meaning augmenting ourselves genetically to be smart enough to change shit,&quot; he says. &quot;Or to have artificial intelligence and programs to help solve the problems.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I think he&#039;d have fun around here.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>
Watching Elysium, it&#8217;s apparent he thinks the human race is probably buggered, although the solution he&#8217;s holding out for is reassuringly Blomkampian. &#8220;The only way things will change is if we&#8217;re smart enough to develop technology that can think us out of this, meaning augmenting ourselves genetically to be smart enough to change shit,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Or to have artificial intelligence and programs to help solve the problems.&#8221;
</p></blockquote>
<p>I think he&#8217;d have fun around here.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: peppermint</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15324</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[peppermint]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 03:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15324</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&gt; music better on Earth

Mozart and Beethoven were contemporaries.  Where are the Mozarts and Beethovens of our generation?  Wherever they are, they&#039;re not selling as well as Lil Wayne, ergo, Lil Wayne makes better music?

Or maybe rap music sells CDs to young Whites who want to hear about sex and drugs and crime, and it&#039;s made by Blacks because feminists can&#039;t object to authentic Black culture.

The Negroes have been credited with pretty much all the music ever, and the Arabs and Chinese with science, by the same preening Leftists.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt; music better on Earth</p>
<p>Mozart and Beethoven were contemporaries.  Where are the Mozarts and Beethovens of our generation?  Wherever they are, they&#8217;re not selling as well as Lil Wayne, ergo, Lil Wayne makes better music?</p>
<p>Or maybe rap music sells CDs to young Whites who want to hear about sex and drugs and crime, and it&#8217;s made by Blacks because feminists can&#8217;t object to authentic Black culture.</p>
<p>The Negroes have been credited with pretty much all the music ever, and the Arabs and Chinese with science, by the same preening Leftists.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
	<item>
		<title>By: Scharlach</title>
		<link>http://www.xenosystems.net/elysium/#comment-15320</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Scharlach]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 02:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.xenosystems.net/?p=1346#comment-15320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Delacourt should have allowed a few token Earthlings to live on or visit Elysium, to bring said music and other cultural interests to the elite. This would have made it easier to be a hard-ass behind the scenes, always keeping the proggy president busy touting the next Diversity Event.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Delacourt should have allowed a few token Earthlings to live on or visit Elysium, to bring said music and other cultural interests to the elite. This would have made it easier to be a hard-ass behind the scenes, always keeping the proggy president busy touting the next Diversity Event.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
	</item>
</channel>
</rss>
