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WALL-E: Economic Ignorance and the War on Modernity
Daily Article from Mises.org by Gennady Stolyarov II | Posted on 7/4/2008

The Disney-Pixar film WALL-E has been adoringly received by the majority of the theatergoing public. This adoration is unjustified. The film blatantly conveys environmentalist, anticapitalist, and antitechnological propaganda — and aims it at an audience of children, who still lack the critical faculties and intellectual sophistication to evaluate all relevant aspects of the issues presented.
But I will not focus here on how egregiously unrealistic the …