I don't see movies I reject

I am frequently encouraged by good friends to see movies or go to plays that we both know are Lefty Fundamentalist rants. A film example is Food Inc. 

I don't go, these days.  Why?

My friends are implicitly suggesting that my positions would be changed if I heard the rant that they enjoyed.

My own view of the matter is that I have heard the gist of these arguments for my entire life and particular details are not significant enough to change the core issues.

To me, these arguments are part of a general argument that I call Dickens-Marx.  Dickens-Marx is an ideology that developed in the 19th Century as a rebuke to the earliest manifestations of industrial commerce. The argument is irrelevant today.

It is an argument that is very similar to the 14th Century argument about the corporeality of angels, the validity of the Trinity, the Virgin birth and the existence of the Limbo.  The argument is similar to the 16th Century debate about free will.  The 17th Century debates about man in the state of nature, the 18th century arguments about the immortal soul and reincarnation, the 19th Century debates on human evolution.

Frankly, I have little or no interest in these arguments.  None of them were based on testing by reference to empirical evidence.  There isn't a shred of empirical evidence to support the Lefty ideology of Dickens-Marx... why waste time. So the Left hates big corporations.  (It would be better if they didn't use a phone, never use the Internet, never fly, rent a car, stay in a hotel, go shopping for food or buy clothing.)

From an emotional vantage point, metaphorically, I live with rainbows in the bright sun, commerce is the source of health, vitality, wealth and personal authenticity. The stodgy old arguments and Dickens-Marx rants are storm clouds that support emotional depression....

The storm clouds come and go if you let them.