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I am a novice communist, that is to say, I am fairly new to communism and have only read few essential books. When I saw this movie, I could immediately tell that it is a liberal feminist movie but couldn't give a coherent explanation for it. This video both affirmed and cleared my views on this movie. Huge thanks to Marxism Today :)
Can i give u some personal advice, friend? Read the essential texts, emerse yourself in the existing literature and learn what it has meant to be a Marxist and revolutionary in the past. Then, once you have done that, abandon the texts. Do not become dogmatic as mamy do and yet claim not to be. Abandon the texts and be guided by your intuition. Return to them when u see fit, as an experienced, well-meaning and thoughtful revolutionary. But never rely on them. History is capricious. We must be diligent and forgiving in our analysis✊🏼
@@canyildiz5966 hah yes so important. lot of people get addicted to them and really become dogmatic or whatever. Thats why the most important marx quote is: Philosophers have pointed out... and so on you know what.
@@canyildiz5966I sympathise with this considering all the hostility between so many different tendencies over things that happened in a different country 60 years ago and that has no immediate relevance to whatever we could be doing here. Like, there’s so much bickering about modern China, but honestly I don’t see how it matters; we should be looking at our conditions and making decisions in the here and now, and aiming to forge our own path best suited to this place, not arguing about somewhere (and somewhen) totally different. It’s not about supporting or not supporting an array of countries, leaders, revolutions etc, it’s about learning from them what’s applicable to our path and then doing. And whatever is not of major and current relevance shouldn’t be allowed to divide us needlessly.
Landlord Barbie charges all of her fashion & accessories to a Kohl's credit card then raises the rent on her tenants to pay it off 😭 Then she uses her Kohl's Cash to buy clearance espresso machines, air fryers, & waffle makers that she gives to relatives for Christmas 😭😭😭🤦🤦🤦
@@Superior-Brickehh, I think it’s a bit mixed in the deprogram but I definitely run into a lot of good leads there. Definitely as far as reddit goes, the deprogram is pretty good, but real learning comes from reading and analysing and organising with people close to you. That said, the podcast let the genie out of the bottle for me and basically made me a communist. I also love the memes.
I liked how fragile the Ken's were when the Barbies fought back. While it was exaggerated, this part of the movie made a good point about how insecure men really are and how they try to cover it up by appearing tough and dominant.
Exactly. Most men are merely flesh cretins that are easily disposable. It’s disgusting that the drone species has somehow tricked the world into thinking that it deserves control over it.
Can't exactly count on capitalists to accurately represent anti capitalism can we? It seems to me, without watching the movie yet, that it is a way to capitalize on the current wave of anti capitalist sentiment while at the same time, controlling it. If they can lead baby leftists to fight only the obvious signs of patriarchy instead of the capitalist root of the problem, then they get off scott free and get to continue business as usual. It's a sign that they are scared.
No, its not a sign of fear. Its them knowing they can marketize everything, including those feelings. Like selling a t-shirt with the face of Che Guevara, or using the gay flag on a particular month. And people keep buying. Much to everyone's dismay, a movie wont change much, neither will a thousand youtube channels, unless the people watching them do things in the real world, which seems to be way harder.
@KairoStark , I think most members if the LGBT community aren't stupid enough to fall the the pride month bait by corporations and at very least see it for what it is: a disingenuous attempt of reaching a wider customer base that may also have the benefit of sometimes helping LGTB organizations with donations from the sales.
It was a sneaky distortion to slip in there! Disappointing. You'd expect that kind of thing from a Margaret Thatcher-style neolib. Didn't expect in this film
Which is hilarious, considering that fascists privatised way more than they nationalised, they limited their nationalisation to anything related to their war efforts (fascists love wars of conquest), so ofc there was some interventionism. A fascist government and corporations operating within fascism won't necessarily have the same specific goals, except largely economic ones.
@@Marxism_Today I feel it also plays into the "muh totalitarianism!" horseshit theory. Not at all surprisingly, fascists favour privatisation over interventionism, and what interventionism they do prefer has more to do with cementing the basis of wars of conquest they've got planned in their FIFA-style war rooms, none of this really compromises the private nature of *ownership* which corporations under fascism still enjoy and the profit they derive from that ownership. The Nazi policy of reversing WWI nationalisation efforts was called "Reprivatisierung", meaning "Reprivatisation", which suggests that they were nationalised at some point but not to help the masses. I also agree that liberal "democracy" is preferable to fascist dictatorship, though it is only bourgeois democracy, I used quotes because it's not really democracy for the rest of us, since hardly anyone we get to vote for (we do not choose who get to be candidates) actually serves our interests beyond, at best, the occasional breadcrumb.
For anyone who may be concerned by the ending of Barbie being a slap in the face to what it was trying to preach, bear in mind that it was meant to simulate the situation we have in real life; progress was made on gender equality, but it didnt become perfect overnight. Its not saying that matriarchy is okay but patriarchy isnt, its supposed to mirror a sad, warped situation where the Kens only had mild progress in Barbieland, mirroring real life. There's still lots of work to be done because while women do have it better than ever in some cases, they're still struggling in places, and conservatives are fighting more viciously than ever before to roll back the progress we've made. In short, the movie had one last poignant message, and it didnt just throw away its desire for gender equality.
Hell, the narrator openly states that progress would come over time, so it even goes out of its way to emphasize that the Kens werent even stuck in their roles, much like how women in real life werent stuck in that same spot forever, and that we have moved forward with time.
I'm a little conflicted about this one because I think it's a good example of the movie's tonal dissonance at times. It is sick and twisted that women were straight up excluded from any power for a long time, and that even after several waves of feminism and increase representation in major institutions progress has been slow. But this scene doesn't make President Barbie out to look sick and twisted; if anything it makes her look prudent, because the Kens were so irresponsible and dangerous when they had power, so they're obviously not ready to share it. Then the narrator's line implies that this is actually the opposite of the intended interpretation. That's because, in this movie, Kens are simultaneously the analogue of real world women AND avatars of real world toxic masculinity and patriarchy. Both of those choices individually are great ways to satirize patriarchy, but when you do both of them at the same time sometimes the message gets muddled a bit, and you have to resort to showing one (haha of course President Barbie can't let these dummies have too much power, they nearly destroyed everything!) and telling the other (haha of course it's wrong to not allow for gender equality - just like with women in the real world), and hope people will just interpret the scene according to whichever one best resolves the dissonance for them.
@@vincefitzpatrick9206analogies are tricky, we see this all the time. Like when fantasy movies use orcs or aliens or whatever as an analog for racism. But simultaneously they make the orcs or w/e inherently violent or somehow irrevocably different. So they try to do a "racism is bad" message while making essentially racial stereotypes just true in their world
I saw the headlines spout that barbie was "woke, feminist, communist propaganda" and I was like, "Damn dude, they ain't even paying you to advertise but yet here you are selling this to me."
Maoist (NPA) Barbie Red Army Barbie Pan-Africanist Barbie NVA Barbie Red Guard Barbie M-26-7 Barbie Union Organiser Barbie Irish Republican Barbie What else?
@@georgekostaras Palestinian barbie with a Hijab, toy missile launcher made from scrap, and instead of a Barbie house she has a small tunnel system that goes under a settler colony (her original house was destroyed by colonizers and can be bought separately). Ken has a Kaffiyeh and a stolen M16 🇵🇸
I read Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s essay “We should all be Feminists” right after watching Barbie. The timing was perfect. I will definitely have to read Anuradha Ghandy’s book next!
yea it's one of those things where the words shouldn't be necessary to simply say "just and fair", but in the overwhelmingly normalized context of patriarchal colonial classist society, you have to use all these extra words simply to describe a neutral non-oppressive framework. it's one of the more insidious complications of normalized oppression, kind of like how misinformation and lies travel so much faster than truth because it takes 100x more energy and words to put out a hundred small fires than to start them with a single sentence
the movie was strongest when it focused on womanhood through the individual experience and weakest when it tried to make broad political statements. when your movie is funded by mattel any political message will inevitably be lukewarm
Awesome video. I especially agreed with Anna's criticisms of the film. Her statement on the Barbieland government being the US government in pink, reminded me they basically had a version of the Mount Rushmore monument with Barbies that was replaced with horses when the Kens took over. So does that mean that, there were some Native American Barbies that were removed from their ancestral land?? A lot of the positives you guys mentioned I didn't really notice because I'm new to stuff but the one that definitely hit home was Barbie having the feeling of being ogled at and objectified by men in the real world. Sasha was a huge positive for the movie as well. I did enjoy it. Awesome video, I've learnt a lot. Thanks
*Sees Title* Man, if only then, life would actually be something to look forward to for once regardless. This should be an insightful discussion as always for this channel.
That opening was hilarious! Rest of the video was great, too, of course. A good example of critiquing a capitalist depiction/cooption of ostensibly revolutionary ideas.
President, senator, hockey player, actress, news anchor, doctor. I call these lego-people jobs, they generate extreme amounts of survivor bias, and they are a very small percentage of actual real-world jobs. Add cops to that list too.
Hey, come to think of it, has Barbie ever had a “blue collar” job? Where is cashier Barbie? Manufacturer Barbie? Automotive mechanic Barbie? And even if these do exist, why weren’t there any trade or service industry Barbies seen in the film? EDIT: So I looked it up (Wikipedia has a page listing her careers!) she’s at least been a service worker (including Pizza Hut cashier Barbie and McDonald’s cashier Barbie!) I would make the critique that these are idealized versions of those jobs, but all of her careers are idealized. I’d argue the disconnect between real world cashier and idealized Barbie cashier though is much more steep. Still wondering why there wasn’t a Barbie with a blue collar job in the movie. Unless I missed it.
Your comment on the "pink USA" got me thinking. I think it makes sense with the premise of the Barbie world being a matriarchy, and not necessarily a feminist utopia. It's the same world, but now with women being the oppressors. I think the movie could've delved into this more, showing men what this oppression - that women experience daily in real life - looks and feels like. Additionally, I expected at least a little bit of a "wait, are we the baddies" moment for main character at the end, after experiencing what patriarchy was like and knowing that Barbie world is the opposite of that. This would probably not go down well with the liberal audience who have no concept of nuance, and introduces the risk of - equally nuanceless - conservatives liking the movie. And even though there was somewhat of a nice ending for Ken, it was a personal one. The same goes for the ending Barbie got. Never underestimate the power of liberals to gaslight a whole nation by pretending to listen to people's genuine problems, and then tell them it's just in their head. Insert Obama quote about how African countries should stop using past colonialism (as if it's not currently happening still) as an excuse for their underdevelopment (yes, he actually said that). Once again, emancipation to liberals has to be framed as at the expense of the other. "Women doing better means men having it worse", "black people doing better means white people having it worse". And that's why things like affirmative action are more easily implemented than more tax money going to black neighborhoods, or equalizing paternity and maternity leave. Emancipation is supported by liberals only in as far as they can use it as a tool to separate the working class.
Isn't the EXACT opposite of patriarchy though? I keep emphasizing this to people complaining about it. I also made another comment above. The barbies did not actively mistreat the kens. They did not control them or force them in to servitude, they just mostly ignored them/left them alone to their own devices most of the time. The part about Kens potentially being homeless I think was a gag. They just don't know where they actually live since they are too busy ignoring them most of the time. Also, points to how the Ken doll is viewed in the barbie franchise as a whole; girls don't really buy Ken dolls like that nor care
It is *invaluable* to hear impressions, opinions, and analysis from people I trust before I make certain decisions (even something as seemingly "simple" as deciding to watch a movie 😅) As always, comrades, thanks so much for all you do 💕🙏
I find it hilarious that literally every man I've seen talk about barbie - from right wing to liberal to communists - start by saying that they went to watch it with their wives, girlfriends, or that their producers made them go etc. not picking on anyone though, just having a laugh here. I did really enjoy the video, thanks for this!
Lol you're right. It's like "Don't worry, fellow men. It was actually a woman who brought me here". A reflection of the influence of patriarchy even on men's minds where such "cover" has to be presented. Good point. And really ridiculous now that it's pointed out - Paul
Personally my two biggest problems of this movie was that it made the more emotional parts less great, like for the example the movies solution to ken hierarchy in barbie land was to revert it back to the barbie hierarchy from the start. which felt dumb, like the barbie hierarchy was to the ken’s like how the real world Men Hierarchy is to women. Even the side character in the end of the movie who helped the barbie’s restore there rights. Got none for himself, it was even commented that the kens didn’t even have home’s or at the very least was segregated away from any of the barbie’s, not to mention that the ending of the movie literally said that the kens will not get any of there rights at all. And also the young girl in the movie felt like a stereotype of a leftist and was very dumb for her to call barbie a fascists, it made her seem unhinged for no reason. But other then that I liked the movie and would rate it somewhere between a 6.5 to a 7/10 (Edit) I also 100% agree with both of yours class analysis of this movie good job👍
on the fun factor alone i LOVED this movie, hilarious at points honestly but i'm glad to have the political critiques put into words where i kinda struggled !! love this content
This is the most enjoyable and eye opening episode I've seen. And I thought Barbie was just a movie to bring your little girl to see. Yes, bring your little girl and boy and after the movie, explain what It should be like. All Power to The People!!!
I have not watched Barbie but I plan to. I love how the right-wing crackpots are losing their minds. It’s got to be worth watching. Any film with female directors, writers and a predominantly female cast is worth supporting.
It's worth mentioning the outrage on how barbie land was oppressive to the men. While the Kens in Barbieland are not seen as important and overall have no rights, they are not specifically mistreated by the barbies or controlled. They are just left alone and maybe rejected while the barbies hang out with each other. Barbies don't solicit them for sex or force them to constant servitude(though the kens would actively volunteer im sure) It does say something about the nature of how a lot of men think. Apparently Ken not having much power AND being denied romance/intimacy with Barbie(despite being attractive to boot)is the worst insult to men possible. The way men are entitled to female attention, though, I'm not surprised... Moreover, Ken as a doll in the entire franchise is not that important. No girls really give shit about buying Ken dolls so it's that aspect of it too. A play on the barbie lore for laughs.
22:24 - The "Barbie National Liberation Army" sounds like the Barbie Liberation Organization that was switching the voice boxes in G.I. Joes and Barbie dolls in the 90s. The Barbies would go "Vengeance is mine!!!"
Enjoyed this! The only critiques I've seen of this movie have been from Indigenous people pissed about the comparison of their genocide to Barbie leaving for the real world, so it was great to have more. Wish you would have mentioned that, too, though.
I found the movie to be naive and stupid. But you, the author, were able to give me a communist look at the film from a different angle, thanks for the interesting video
I haven’t watched it and doubt that I will. Hate musicals. (F socialist 30s) also I don’t feel empowered by bashing on men personally. If it’s anything like the Harley Quinn film then no thanks. Definitely not for me 😅 Edit: half way through the video. Can’t imagine the film being wholesome. Everything everywhere all at once made me want to hug my mum. Barbie’s look alone makes me nauseous 😂 always has by the way. The video is great and has given me a different perspective however I still won’t watch it. Mattel and co don’t need anymore money.
@@rhumalthings like portraying the real world as automatically meaning men are against us and/or always attacking us, while comical in the film and of course real, just doesn’t sit great with me. In my experience dealing with men, I’ve had the range, from unwanted sexual advances to assault, to great loving caring men. With all the division, I don’t see much benefit in adding to it by taking part. I’m not claiming to be right, but to me it’s like a reverse “mens locker room” and as I said before, just not me. You enjoy it by all means 👍
23:39: It's stated in the movie that every Barbie has her own dream house. Also, Barbieland IS a fantasy, and an absurd one, and this is communicated to the audience in the first scene when Marbie takes a shower with no water. So it's not a criticism of the film that Barbieland is a liberal feminist fantasy--Barbieland as liberal feminist fantasy IS a critique of liberal feminism. Loved the video, btw.
Weirdly though, I forgot completely about the voting, while the ridiculousness of it didn't go unnoticed by me, even though not in an explicitly politcal sense. Somehow it seems that they - probably by accident - laid bare the ridiculousness of voting. They kind of represent this voting ritual as something magical, as if roads materialize magically if parliament votes for more tax money going to building roads. It turns the hyperreal of a social construct into actual magic (not needing social agreements for it to function). While in reality of course, the Kens could just riot and take power back. In the end the laws are just words written down on paper. I think this scene beautifully exposes this, but - again - I think completely by accident.
Shwmae pawb. Love a good Marxism today video. Horrifically unrelated question, but what do you think celtic nations should seek a revival of their language in the context of social change during socialist revolution? Many Cymreag MLs I have spoken to believe this could help.
I do! I'm a strong advocate for cultural revivals (that break from imperialist culture). Especially when it comes to the process of building anti-imperialist, proletarian states. Language and culture are some of the defining features of nationhood, so recapturing and reviving the positives aspects there will play an important role in combatting imperialism at the superstructural level. - Paul
We in the Irish Republican movement support the right to self-determination (up to and including full secession) for all celtic nations, including those in the imperial core. Their struggles, particularly where led by the working class, play an important progressive role in weakening British and French imperialism. - Paul
28:30 did they also capture and ship Black barbies and kens from Barbie Africa, and force them work to build Barbie america, along with the pink house, and oppress them up till now? this is a fun video. my wife and I are cracking up
Anyone notice the scene towards the end of the movie where Sasha's mother rants at Barbie to snap her out of her brainwashing and how that rant parallels Michael Parenti's famous Left Anti-Communism quote in Blackshirts & Reds? Replace the 'Soviet Union' with 'women' and it's very similar.
24:02 this immediately brought to mind how i like to modify my favorite fred hampton quote; "we won't beat capitalism with black/feminist/etc capitalism" ^_^
Comrade Barbie has fallen down the capitalist path! The revolution is doomed! Great video, you two! A refreshing change of pace, though I'm surprised it wasn't a Left of Review video! Maybe I'm a little confused as to that channel's purpose... 😵💫 Nonetheless, keep it up!
Yeah, I also had a similar thought. It just wasn't anti-corporate enough, let alone anywhere near anti-capitalist. Honestly the story is best enjoyed through its interpersonal relationships rather than its politics,
I love this analysis. There's something about this movie that no one is talking about. Why are the politics of barbie land the way they are? Barbie land was created by children, mostly little girls. Every doll in Barbieland is been played by mostly little girls. These little girls don't know better. The only reason a stereotypical Barbie, it's having a mental breakdown and an existential crisis it's because she's been played by a grown woman.. It also explains why the Kens didn't get equality right away. This is a safe space for little girls and their dreams. They just tasted the patriarkey. They're not gonna give it away that easily. Just remember, they're not fully flesh adults. These are girls, mostly of them little girls. They're not going to be fully fleshed Feminist, the only feminist in this movie is Gloria. Because she is the only adult.
OK I'm subscribing, I looked everywhere for a good critique of Barbie, and found this channel -- it wasn't suggested by the algorithm -- in a roundabout way.
I've found these two as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--2vE-hFCpLc.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RToUZJ0l7Pk.html This video and those videos are all wonderful and all go into different areas. We don't have a lot of Marxist analysis of films, I need more.
conversely, i think the movie was expectedly self-aware, they knew that no matter what, the conversation around barbie and matter's controversies WILL take place, ignoring it would be completely disingenuous for the audience, but also coveniently ignoring other dark things like the exploitation and workers abuse to not hurt the company's image too much. This is a film cued by culture, it doesn't cue culture at all, any conversation it spread was already defaulted there by just the fact that mattel decided to sell a new barbie movie in 2023, giving the political environment today, things are crumbling all around us in different ways, so as you say, generally people now tend to be more socially conscious than ever before, to varying degrees, specially young people, so it takes progressive movements to its own gain, and this has been being done for a few years already, barbie ushers neoliberalism in this new decade.
Yeah, in a way as a South Park Cartoon like direct ! In the end Mattel sells more toys and WB expands marketshare, and Producers are sharing their messages - however - with good payback for their stellar ideas.
As much as i enjoyed this critique of Barbie from a Marxist perspective, the critque of Barbie's view of fascism is an overreach. Barbie is not misrepresenting fascism by suggesting it is just the nationalisation of public services. She's making a joke based on history. Mussolini was famous for (alegedly) making the Italian trains run on time. He also introduced heavy tarriffs on trade, exempting Germany from these tariffs. These policies were what made him popular in the beginning of his gov't. When someone calls Barbie a fascist, she thinks of Mussolini (Haha!). Sometimes Barbie is just a doll... 😀
Yeah, that bit about railways and commodities really stumped me in the theatre both times I watched it. It seemed so absurd to me, and didn’t make sense. Neoliberals gonna neoliberal I suppose
Something I have noticed, and I don't know yet if the video will mention it, is the number of posts that seem to be trying to resuscitate even early barbies. A lot of talk about how "Ken is only an accessory". And basically that barbie encourages girls to reach their goals. Of course, I can remember the number of times barbie has been criticized and image issues.
I also find the advertisement very odd. The real Malibu barbie house was made available for vacations (for how much idk). In California where homelessness is so bad. Plus all over the US people are having a hard time buying their first home. And then just after Mattel decided to sell weird barbie. Some people pointed out that weird barbie is supposed to be made, as explained in the movie. So whatever message the movie sends the Mattel or relared corps can undermine it to sell things.
I thought it was a good movie. I have balanced expectations- it's primarily an existentialist comedy, the social commentary is icing on the cake. I'm not going to expect a Marxist film if it didn't have a Marxist director.
Fair. It's a great existentialist comedy. But from a Marxist perspective, the politics leave a lot to be desired, which is why I ended up giving it two scores: one for entertainment, and one for politics - Paul
No mention of the forced smallpox "commentary?" It was such a disrespectful way of engaging with indigenous trauma and I don't understand how that didn't stay in the drafts. Anyway, this was my very short review that I texted a friend as I walked out of the theater: I think my biggest critique is Barbie doesn’t really achieve anything because it set limits upon itself by taking the male gaze far too much into consideration. It basically is a film that spends its time trying to educate cis men. Because of this, it never explores what to do about patriarchy, instead venting about it (part of why it’s a fun watch!) and begging for recognition, for cis men to walk a day in our shoes, basically. It’s an A-List star-studded summer blockbuster Hollywood huge budget production so of course it wasn’t going to be anything different. But I find it funny that so many are still so mad about it.
Eh. The family wasn't a big Mattel toys buyer but loved Marx ! Anyway, growing up when I did, when THE Wall was still standing, most girls had Barbie's and most boys had the G.I. Joe's. Yeah, Gen Zer's. Society was weird like that, you say. It was just, uhm... "quieter". We all "knew" about Ken. Let's just say Barbie could trust Ken to babysit Skipper while she went on an "Only Girls" night-out with Midge. Nevertheless, there were some very creative kids in the early days of pre-Covid civilization. One of the ways we entertained ourselves was by making our own home movies. Boring? Too white suburban, tuna- casserole-on-a-Saturday-night entertainment? Not at all. See, Super 8 was the thing. Now in the hands of Dad, yeah, the usual: vacation movies; surprising-mom-in-the-morning-coming-out-of-the-shower-again stuff; first birthdays/anniversaries/drunk uncle dancing holidays...the whole middle-class thing. Except for Dad's hidden stag reels from Argentina ("Gretchen Rides Her Black Stag" was the best !) in the back of the basement, behind the wall, it was all clean fun. Now put that same Super 8 camera in the hands of little Dick, Jane, Leroy, Soon Lee or Irving, then you got the imagination ("the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses" for those that ask...)! But throw in some Barbie's, and G.I. Joe's- hot damn ! You'd have an orgy of X rated kiddie toy porn made by unsupervised kids ! Today when we look at the ones we made, it's no wonder AI is a popular thing. We reached our limit early and it's been downhill after that! Ya see, suppression made for good script even when it wasn't about a script, just a natural "do as thou wilt" playtime for devilish children. When you don't realize you've been repressed and you gotta get it out in some way, it can be "shocking" to adults. And kids...shit ! Ya gotta love the lil' bastards! Always with the raw, unsophisticated ideas until some cigar-smoking wanker in a long overcoat, who sits watching them on the playground, and then gets his own idea on how to make a million bucks. Hooray for Hollywood. A blockbuster. Then you get the film critics and the academic elites and other assorted sociological eggheads and bottom-sniffers who argue, over-analyze, huff-n-puff contemporaneously on the film's "social more"- and, basically, have no fuckin' clue what they speak of. It just sounds good to them at yet another one of those white w(h)ine symposiums. Furry conventions are much more fun to cover, folks. Bottomline- if it wasn't for the corruption of children's imagination by adults, there would be no discussions about Barbie, Snow White, woke Disney, the Illuminati, Fox News...we'd just enjoy life in bear-skins and face-painting without all the fake-commercial rhetoric. Or watch the classic cult "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" and get the irony of living in a world where we, creatively, feed off the living, to inspire the dead. The Vampire Struggle Continues On, Comrades!
