Don't mince words, Meredith, tell us what you really think!

[maradydd]

Ok, so apparently the latest episode of BoingBoing TV is by the guys at monochrom, who are a bunch of Austrians, and it's described as "Web 2.0 meets Marxist economic theory".

I have not actually watched this yet, because the last monochrom puppet show I saw, at last year's CCC, was so pointless and badly executed that enochsmiles and I walked out less than halfway through. (Don't get me wrong, the art was good. But the story made not a lick of sense, the puppeteers had no technical skill -- most of the action involved stick-puppets bouncing up and down randomly -- and it was pretty obvious that they hadn't rehearsed beforehand, given all the missed cues.)

Maybe I'll watch it. Maybe I won't. But the juxtaposition of Austrians doing a puppet show on Marxist economic theory makes me want to put together a puppet show on Austrian School economic theory. Who wants to help? I'm thinking the world needs Lolcat Von Mises.

(digitalusrex, cassandrasimplx, damn do I ever wish I were in Houston right now. And I bet john_j_enright and I could bang together a fun script in Shakespearean blank verse...)

Comments

[enochsmiles.livejournal.com]

Man. I just watched the movie. It does not explain Marxism at all. I wonder if it's an attempt at irony -- a video, on the web, made possible with technology that would not exist in a predominantly Marxist world, where the major prop is a technological device of the same nature used to access a capitalist company's services which feature as the central theme (the access, that is, not the concepts they're blathering about).

I don't know. Maybe it's the "just having gotten back from Riga, and seeing what that city has done with its newfound freedom from communism" that has me even more disgusted with Marxists than usual. If this was irony, Boing-boing has gone way downhill for not realizing this. If it wasn't, it's lame.

(The high-point of the video is obviously a shameless rip-off of Avenue Q. Enough said.)

[maradydd.livejournal.com]

Heh. You say this more succinctly than I do.