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The New ‘Hunger Games’: Empty Calories

November 27, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Says Steve Sailer:

Like the Twilight series, Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games young-adult novels are aimed at 12-year-old female readers.

This puts the movies squarely in the intellectual wheelhouse of average Americans, a sizable fraction of whom don’t read much at all. (…)

Conversely, the movie’s portrayal of West Virginians is straight out of a Works Progress Administration writers’ project. The mountaineers are all hardworking coal miners. Nobody is on disability due to morbid obesity. The working class isn’t trapped in a web of invisible debt, they aren’t having their heavy industry jobs outsourced, nor are they having new populations insourced. In other words, there’s little to unsettle contemporary viewers in The Hunger Games.

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