A Subversive Take on Captive State

A Subversive Take on Captive State

The apparent intent of the creators of the recently released film Captive State is that all it will take to
destroy the evil capitalist system currently destroying both humanity and the environment is for a
highly-placed, well-intentioned insider like John Goodman to spark a revolution.

My interpretation, though, is rather more subversive.

The movie’s aliens come not to annihilate or even enslave humanity but to become the alpha dogs
of our current world, or at least the wet nightmare crony version of it conjured by many on the Left.

The unequivocal message is that although the aliens and their capitalist betas employ super scary
weapons and tracking technologies, they can be defeated with ingenuity, their own weapons,
and the blood of a few martyrs.

While it seems likely that people throughout the globe indeed would try to expel alien overlords,
termed “Legislators” in the movie, if they had any hope of success, the global proletariat has
yet to unite or otherwise cast off the “chains” Marx imagined.

Communist revolutions occurred in backwards places like Russia, China, and Cuba because most
people in those places had nothing to lose. That is clearly not the case in the developed world.
America may yet slide into an alcohol soft middle aged socialism but it will be due to intellectual laziness,
not violent revolution, and certainly not this so-so movie.