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I always saw him as liberal, because A) he was the good guy and I'm a liberal so I think liberals are the good guys and by extension clearly Robin Hood must be liberal, B) because he's redistributing wealth as you say, and C) because I've never heard a conservative actually make any effort to claim Robin Hood as an icon for their own narrative. And thus I never really got any kind of message that contradicted my original assumption.
So, clearly, via careful critical analysis, Robin Hood is definitely a liberal hero.
Except now we have the Tea Party, who I can see appropriating him. So ultimately I think I'm gonna go with your option C.
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Robin Hood is actually a libertarian villain who coddles the poor and redistributes wealth that could have gone to the construction of many Fritz Lang style statues of Atlas holding up the world.
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Is a man not entitled to the gold of his belt pouch? NO, says the cute cartoon fox. It belongs to the countryfolk.
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Ah, this is why I love Hatrack. I want to QFT and LOL at every response so far. You're all my liberal/conservative heroes. Posts: 2804 | Registered: May 2003
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While very few versions of Robin Hood make any sort of sense at all, the Robin Hood of the Disney film is a particularly baffling specimen.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: Is a man not entitled to the gold of his belt pouch? NO, says the cute cartoon fox. It belongs to the countryfolk.
I feel embarrassed asking this, but is this specific phrasing from an actual Ayn Rand book or is it just from Bioshock?
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: While very few versions of Robin Hood make any sort of sense at all, the Robin Hood of the Disney film is a particularly baffling specimen.
I know. A fox who could beat a wolf in archery? Please...
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I think Orson Scott Card actually declared the Disney version to be among the more accurate (at least insofar as the most "official" legend available).
I lack the historical background to evaluate that claim.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: Is a man not entitled to the gold of his belt pouch? NO, says the cute cartoon fox. It belongs to the countryfolk.
I feel embarrassed asking this, but is this specific phrasing from an actual Ayn Rand book or is it just from Bioshock?
I immediately thought the latter, but I've personally never read Ayn Rand.
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quote:Originally posted by Samprimary: Is a man not entitled to the gold of his belt pouch? NO, says the cute cartoon fox. It belongs to the countryfolk.
I feel embarrassed asking this, but is this specific phrasing from an actual Ayn Rand book or is it just from Bioshock?
(who is actually a complicated figure who could be argued to be an argument either for or against libertarianism, or a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of ideological idealism versus externalities and human nature)
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