We meander a bit more on this episode than most as we use the film/book series as more of a jumping off point for our rants about conscription and the near limitless thirst for government power. The Hunger Games film series consists of four science fiction dystopian adventure films based on The Hunger Games trilogy of novels, by the American author Suzanne Collins.
May the odds forever be in your favor.
The Hunger Games trilogy takes place in an unspecified future time, in the dystopian, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, located in North America. The country consists of a wealthy Capitol city, located in the Rocky Mountains, surrounded by twelve (originally thirteen) poorer districts ruled by the Capitol.
The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically advanced, but the districts are in varying states of poverty. The trilogy’s narrator and protagonist Katniss Everdeen, lives in District 12, the poorest region of Panem, located in Appalachia, where people regularly die of starvation.
Speaking of the Capitol, here is a new article by Czarina Denman also discussing the Hunger Games:
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As punishment for a past rebellion against the Capitol (called the “Dark Days”), in which District 13 was supposedly destroyed, one boy and one girl from each of the twelve remaining districts, between the ages of 12 and 18, are selected by lottery to compete in an annual pageant called the Hunger Games. The Games are a televised event in which the participants, called “tributes”, are forced to fight to the death in a dangerous public arena. The winning tribute and his/her home district are then rewarded with food, supplies, and riches.
The purposes of the Hunger Games are to provide entertainment for the Capitol and to remind the districts of the Capitol’s power and lack of remorse, forgetfulness, and forgiveness for the failed rebellion of the current competitors’ ancestors. [-Wikipedia]
During the episode, we made mention of a lecture by Robert Higgs on the concept of conscription being the keystone for justifying any lesser action by the state, which paves the road for the justification of anything:
AUDIO:
“War and the Leviathan State”
Higgs, Costs of War (1994)
https://mises.org/library/war-and-leviathan-state
READINGS:
“War and Leviathan in Twentieth-Century America: Conscription as the Keystone”
“Crisis and Quasi-corporatist Policymaking: The Case in Historical Perspective”
“The Cold War Is Over, but U.S. Preparation for It Continues”
Higgs, Against Leviathan, chapters 24, 25, and 30
https://amzn.to/2sQ7yuH
Also, if you want to get into our roots, we discussed the Hunger Games briefly about two years ago back in our Read Rothbard Podcast days:
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