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The Hunger Games

My kid and I were going to go see The Hunger Games this weekend, but for
various reasons, we decided we would wait until later in the week (and
hopefully, slightly less packed theaters, because Mama doesn't like crowds).
If you're unfamiliar with the story, it's a dystopian future where North
America is now a country called Panem. The Capitol of Panem is populated with
the privileged wealthy (the 1 percent, if you will) and the rest of the
country is divided into districts. Every year, for the pleasure of the
residents of the Capitol, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 17--
known as a tribute--is chosen to compete in a fight to the death. There are
complicated themes of poverty, desperation to survive, authoritarianism and
even racism in that protagonist Katniss is described as olive skinned and dark
haired and the wealthier, more privileged people are whiter and blonder, so
Katniss is looked down upon and discounted.

It occurs to me that the 1 percent are laying the groundwork for our own
Hunger Games now. More and more money stays locked at the top, impoverishing
those of ...

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