Monday, October 18, 2010

'The Social Network': More Hollywood Jewish-supremacist mythmaking?

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The Social Network: “Dot-com” myth-making

(WSWS.org) -- by Kevin Kearney --

The Social Network, directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), recounts in fictional fashion the rapid enrichment of Mark Zuckerberg, a young Internet businessman and disputed creator of Facebook. Since its release, the movie has been the subject of some controversy for its supposedly unflattering—and, according to Zuckerberg’s defenders, false—portrayal of its subject.

The San Francisco Chronicle went so far as to call the work “a hatchet job” of epic proportion, and Zuckerberg himself seems to have been concerned about the film’s impact on his public image—making an unprecedented donation of $100 million to the Newark school system shortly before its release. (See “Facebook founder’s gift to Newark schools: The return of the aristocratic principle”)

In view of all this, it may be surprising to learn that the movie is actually quite admiring of Zuckerberg and his ilk. If anything, Fincher’s film portrays Zuckerberg as a misunderstood genius forced to suffer the presence of other mortals. The latter are incapable of comprehending such an advanced specimen—or simply jealous, or greedy.

Zuckerberg, as played by Jesse Eisenberg, is a whip-smart, “rebel” capitalist who has everyone and everything figured out—except his relations with women.

Of course, like many young men, his ego is injured by a girlfriend and he pulls a few pranks to demonstrate his power, but in the end, Fincher’s film gets its point across: Zuckerberg is smarter and more disciplined than the rest of us, and that is why he is the world’s youngest billionaire.

The reality is more commonplace. Mark Zuckerberg—a relatively privileged young man—came to Harvard University from one of the East Coast’s most prestigious prep schools with significant computer skills. At Harvard he gained notoriety by hacking into the university’s computer system, and then enlisted a number of friends in an effort to create a social networking site modeled on several preexisting sites (Friendster, My Space, etc.), with a few improvements and the elite branding that comes with origins in an Ivy League school.

Through some ruthless business practices and a knack for irritating people, Zuckerberg managed to ensnare himself in a number of lawsuits—one launched by a former close friend and co-founder of Facebook, Eduardo Savarin. Savarin’s story was turned into Ben Mezich’s The Accidental Billionaires, the basis for Aaron Sorkin’s screenplay...

For his defiant hacking, Zuckerberg is eventually disciplined at Harvard and subjected to an administrative hearing where he easily makes fools out of everyone in the room.

His campus notoriety gains him an audience with the Winklevoss brothers (both played by Armie Hammer), athletes and members of an elite club, who are looking for a technician to bring their idea of a more exclusive social network to reality. Zuckerberg immediately agrees to work for them, but then organizes his own team and creates Facebook. The Winklevoss brothers—portrayed as strapping Anglo-Saxon blue-bloods—are only the first in a series of ethnic or social stereotypes.

Zuckerberg and his friends eventually move their operations to California where they meet Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake) of Napster fame, who incarnates the hucksterism and “irrational exuberance” that permeated the South San Francisco Bay Area elite in the mid- to late 1990s.

Parker manages to supplant Zuckerberg’s best friend Eduardo (Andrew Garfield) as the company’s financial officer by securing start-up money from a venture capitalist. With Zuckerberg’s help, those two collude to water down Eduardo’s share, leaving him with a small fraction of his original interest in the company. Eduardo is presented in a such a fashion that the betrayal seems almost justified; the portrayal reinforces the point that the brighter, successful elements naturally rise to the top...MORE...LINK
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Chris Moore comments:

The writer of the screenplay (Aaron Sorkin — The American President, The West Wing) is a lefty Jewish supremacist in the “progressive” Zionist vein. In addition to general agitprop for left-liberalism in his "art," Sorkin is a large financial contributor to the Jewish supremacist Democratic Party. No surprise, then, that he would glorify a fellow Jew (Zuckerberg) as smarter, more shrewd, and generally more entitled to his fortune than his non-Jewish competitors.

From the early Soviet Union to the Levant to the U.S., Jewish supremacists engage in Jewish networking, ethnic racketeering and discrimination to attain domination, and then use their ethno-cultural warriors like Sorkin to create myths that it's all justified and even destined due to Jewish "choseness" by God and/or History. Of course, it's all a swindle built upon spin, illusion and fraud that in actuality is "destined" to crumble due to their selfish, insatiable character and fraudulent methods and moral authority. Inevitably, though, they manage to convince themselves and their useful idiots that "This time, things will be different," -- even as they dig themselves ever deeper into their ponzi schemes.

-------------------------Sorkin, arrested for drug possession at the Burbank Airport a mere two months after accepting an overcoming-substance-abuse-award along with fellow left-liberal, West Wing "president" Martin Sheen

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