Phil. prof. most interesting case-in-pt. as USA goes down "tubes," all in Spenglerian "Decline of the West," we see....

Below-copied essay by ap first published at comments, http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/2014/05/30/three-questions-to-ask-about-pages-to-screens/#comment-42992

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Spenglerian Decline Is Oh So Jolly, Just Before The Horror Starts, We See

(Apollonian, 30 May 14)

Mike, like the over-grown child, spouting mystic "ethics," "contends," demands, insists, declares, etc., as usual, and u notice he invokes something, "moral standpoint," which he does not and cannot define, so far as we know, Mike just a mystic, actually, who mystically invokes ethics as be-all and end-all, always without any foundation or rational exposition.

Thus Mike insists about movies having to be "good" as the book--"good" left un-defined, u notice, as usual.

But rational ethics must be rational first and most, hence the property rights of author and movie producer are paramount, the movie producers typically paying big-bucks to the much-poorer authors for all rights, thus the property changing hands, etc.--it's actually just a simple legal issue regarding property rights.

Note then artistic products in way of literature can be quite involved, including not only particular plots, but also the more general subject-matters.  So the movie might invoke the general subject-matter, but without the plot, or changing the plot.

Remember, in the end, if the movie expresses the plot of a given work faithfully, the original work being so popular, the movie is apt to making lots of money, also advertising the book and plot-theme too--good example being recent "Hunger Games" movies.

So Mike had fun w. this blog-essay of his, musing and commenting about works he liked and didn't like, even though his under-lying ethical notions are so mystic and absurd, as so often--and this is okay, I say, getting us all to thinking and commenting, but should Mike be paid by tax-payers for doing this and so "professing" in the classes?--I say absolutely not, the tax-payers NOT being properly served for this sort of foolery.

It's no accident, either, I note again, that USA is going down proverbial tubes in CYCLIC, Spenglerian "Decline of the West."  Mike is having a good time, in meantime, getting paid his huge, un-justified salary fm the tax-payers for whom he has the typical contempt, pushing "climate-change" lies, etc.--such, again, is Western "decline."