You ever think about the fact that A Christmas Carol was doing the same Nightmare Before Christmas shtick almost 200 years earlier A Halloween-y spoopy story for the sake of teaching "the true meaning of Christmas" via the macabre
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He never understood the basic fucking fact that children learn as their first encounter with the real world Eventually you just fucking die Then all the money you have in the bank and in title deeds and sound investments is completely worthless to you Then there's nothing
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Future and Past tag-team him, you see The terrible truth of the Future is that you hit the end of your life and *there is no Future* Then the Past is *everything*, there's nothing but Past, no direction to look but backwards
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Scrooge is a stand-in for austerity economics, not moral stinginess, even in Dickens’s time. The Zemeckis/Carrey Christmas Carol captures this well imo, as well as the scariness of the spirits.
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Yup, the whole story is a very harsh attack on the idea that "national debt" is a problem that we need to tackle, and that we should do so by increasing the "household savings rate" Also indirectly an attack on deflationary policy and "sound money"
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