Turns out siding with the resistance in a movie doesn’t cost anything. It doesn’t have the potential to have your family tracked and killed by the state. It doesn’t have the potential for you to end up even worse off than you already are.
A lot of people side with their own resistances in the real world, but there’s a reason all of the resistance fighters in the movies are beaten-down, destitute people. They’ve got nothing to lose. We’ve still got our bread and circuses, so we don’t have the fight.
Turns out siding with the resistance in a movie doesn’t cost anything. It doesn’t have the potential to have your family tracked and killed by the state. It doesn’t have the potential for you to end up even worse off than you already are.
A lot of people side with their own resistances in the real world, but there’s a reason all of the resistance fighters in the movies are beaten-down, destitute people. They’ve got nothing to lose. We’ve still got our bread and circuses, so we don’t have the fight.