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[bryant]

A while back I urged San Franciscans to help save the 4 Star. Everything worked out; the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance stating that you can't demolish or change the use of a movie theater as long as that theater is economically viable. This is a horrendous intrusion into the economic sphere and I should abhor it. But, you know, the Four Star is gonna show Dark Water soon and I can't find it in me to object to a law that makes sure that kind of thing will continue to happen.

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[st-rev.livejournal.com]

Because the proper role of the state is to subsidize culture and entertainment for the privileged classes. Otherwise they wouldn't be privileged!

[bryant]

It's one of those "result good, means bad" things. Tears at me, really.

[kodi]

Is this thing an intrusion into the economic sphere which, in comparison to other economic spheres, inspires horror, or are all intrusions into the economic sphere horrendous on their face? I ask because, it seems to me, this class of intrusions is fairly benign.

[bryant]

It's minor-league horrendous. I'm a lapsed anarchist; I really don't like government at the same time as I recognize our current inability to function without one.