I went and saw the Dark Knight last night. The movie was quite enjoyable and many social issues were present in the themes of the story. The villain in the movie is a character called the Joker, who prides himself on having no rules and presents himself as a animal motivated by instinct, he just does what he does, supposedly with no plan. There is a scene where he is slightly apologetic to Harvey Dent, sayin ghe had no plans for things to end up the way they did. That the police, and bruce wayne, they all have plans even the mobsters have plans. He on the other had subscribes to chaos and in turn anarchy, because as he says at least in chaos everyone has an equal chance. This is an interesting theory, and the control of our lives that is shown in the movie is ripped apart by the joker as he starts threatening death at random. Random death is scary enough to people to make them think about chaos in substitute for the controlled paced life we tend to live here in the U.S.
The quest for anarchy is one quite interesting and common in human history. William McKinley the 25th president of the United States was shot and killed by a man who claimed a speech by the anarchist Emma Goldman motivated him. The problem with the assassinations by anarchists was that they weren't progressive enough. They were still preoccupied by the idea that hierarchy and government are the methods of control, little did they realize that companies that produce the goods and services we depend upon are the true controllers of society. True chaos and anarchy would come from people having to subsist upon their own talents and ingenuity, rather then being the dependent consumers of today. If Leon Czolgosz had any foresight he would have shot Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie or Vanderbilt. Nope instead he shot a fat president who now has schools across the country named for him. Rockefeller is the catalyst of the oil explosion in this country, he helped push the need for fuel by supplying it like opium to our ever consuming lives. Standard Oil was his company, they were forced to break up under the Sherman Antitrust act, but eventually morphed into the company known today as Exxon. Strange that Exxon is one of the most profitable companies in the world. I wonder if an anarchist could have changed that, or if companies are similar to military regimes in that if you cut off the head there is always some other head ready to take the place of the fallen leader.
Good job at inspiring thinking Dark Night, you entertain and inspire.