>> ^Kofi:

I'm pretty sure money inspired the greatest art, music and architecture.


I'm certain that whatever an individual personally worships, is what they themselves are convinced inspire "the greatest art".

This isn't a slight against Kofi: I read your comment first before I had watched far enough to see the moment from the clip that inspired it, but thought of this aspect when hearing the gentleman from the church preach his perspective on it. The guy clearly spends so much time with his face in the bible, that he sees it everywhere when he finally looks up. Today our culture is clearly told to worship money, so it's easy to see its influence in everything (even if it's not there).

Just an opinion (inspired by money!!!!!)

Right on! That is also one of my favorite scenes in, yes, probably still one of my top-10 films. It is stuff like that where we see the most crippling critique of religion in this film--questioning the very psychological foundations of religious belief itself (also fantastically illustrated in this scene and its many shouts of "It's a Miracle!"). But that flies all the way over the heads of the bishop and his little buddy here, who instead obsess over superficial gags like cross singing and people failing to fall weeping to their knees while viewing the sermon on the mount.
>> ^EMPIRE:

and The Life of Brian is indeed one of the funniest best criticisms of religion put on film.
that whole scene when one of Brian's sandals fall off, and they treat it as a religious relic, and then there's the other group who already had the gourd he had "bought" at the market who also thought it was a religious relic, and in that precise moment, two distinct sects of a religion appear from a completely stupid point. love it!

and The Life of Brian is indeed one of the funniest best criticisms of religion put on film.

that whole scene when one of Brian's sandals fall off, and they treat it as a religious relic, and then there's the other group who already had the gourd he had "bought" at the market who also thought it was a religious relic, and in that precise moment, two distinct sects of a religion appear from a completely stupid point. love it!

Inspired? I don't think so. Made possible and influenced/dictated the content? Absolutely.

>> ^Kofi:

I'm pretty sure money inspired the greatest art, music and architecture.

I assume it's so that everyone can hear what he's saying, as there is no microphone.

It's particularly horrible when the crowd doesn't understand his accent. Someone should have given him a megaphone or something.>> ^packo:

>> ^Skeeve:
Zizek: "You are all individuals"
Crowd: "We are all individuals"
This is horrible...

just wondering if you know why they are repeating what the speaker is saying,
but yes that is ironic

>> ^Skeeve:

Zizek: "You are all individuals"
Crowd: "We are all individuals"
This is horrible...


just wondering if you know why they are repeating what the speaker is saying,
but yes that is ironic

Zizek: "You are all individuals"
Crowd: "We are all individuals"

This is horrible...

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From Goldy's blog at The Stranger:

Yeah sure, it's kind of a weak rip-off of that classic "What have the Romans ever done for us?" bit in Monty Python's Life of Brian, [http://videosift.com/video/Life-of-Brian-What-have-the-Romans-done-for-us] but it's an obvious rip-off that makes a salient point. (It also starts off as I imagine all Seattle Times editorial board meetings do.)

Isn't it funny how the free marketeers love to sing the praises of competition, yet refuse to acknowledge the role of competition between corporations and organized labor in raising living standards and building the modern middle class?

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No Life of Brian?