Dr. Dennis Foster comes on to discuss another film that was re-made with a terrible reboot attempt in Paul Verhoeven’s “Total Recall” starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Action star extraordinaire Arnold Schwarzenegger starts as working stiff Douglas Quaid who is haunted by dreams of Mars and discovers, after getting a memory implant, he might actually be a secret agent.
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Google Description for the film
Total Recall
Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a bored construction worker in the year 2084 who dreams of visiting the colonized Mars. He visits “Rekall,” a company that plants false memories into people’s brains, in order to experience the thrill of Mars without having to travel there. But something goes wrong during the procedure; Quaid discovers that his entire life is actually a false memory and that the people who implanted it in his head now want him dead.
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Our Guest:
Our guest is Dr. Dennis Foster. He was born in Washington, D.C. but raised mostly in Denver, Colorado.
He went to Drake University in Des Moines as an undergraduate (majoring in economics). After that, he went to work for a bank in Denver after graduation for one year before starting graduate school at the University of Hawaii. He received his doctorate from there in 1991. Since 1990 he has been teaching at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.
For the past few years, his primary courses have been Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, and Public Choice Theory where he introduces students to the likes of Murray N. Rothbard and Tom Woods and several other Austrian School thinkers.
Dennis was our guest for “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (original and Keanu versions),”Soylent Green”, and “Conspiracy”:
Here is the list of movies that Dennis is interested in discussing in the future, it’s quite a list:
The Andromeda Strain
Equilibrium (we did this one way back on Episode 40)
The Island
Looper
The 13th Floor
Twelve Monkeys
Westworld
Enemy of the State
The Manchurian Candidate (both)
Marathon Man
Seven Days in May
The Third Man
Defending Your Life
Wag the Dog
Gaslight
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Tim’s Vermeer
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Show Notes:
Electric Dreams (2017 TV series)
S1E6 – Safe and Sound
In a near-future dystopia, the United States is divided between high-tech, hysterically paranoid “safe” cities and “bubble” communities where invasive technologies are rejected. A “bubble” representative moves with her daughter for a year of negotiations and life in the big city. While the mother tries to negotiate better treatment of the bubbles, her daughter struggles to adapt to school life, its social oddities, and the pervasive technologies around her.
Philip K. Dick’s famous “Metz speech”, the address he gave at the second Festival International de la Science-Fiction in Metz, France, on September 24th, 1977.
Part 1 of a 9 part series (from back in the day when YouTube videos had to be less than 10 minutes long):
Here’s that bible/PKD thing we watched:
And to answer the age-old question of “Why is the sky blue?” we have the following:
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/optical-effects/why-is-the-sky-blue
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Robert and I analyze popular movies from a Rothbardian/Anarcho-Capitalist perspective. If it’s voluntary, we’re cool with it. If it’s not, then it violated the Non-Aggression Principle and Property Rights – the core tenants of Libertarian Theory – and hence – human freedom.
We use movies as a starting point for people who may not be familiar with this way of thinking. Discussion of the plot and decisions that characters make in relation to morality and violations of the non-aggression principle are our bread and butter.
We also will highlight and discuss any themes or lessons from Austrian Economics that we can glean from the film.
The point is to show what anarchy actually is with instances that are presented in film.
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