It gives a farcical but remarkably on-point portrayal of the totalitarian response to modernity--total surveillance, centralized control over all culture and expression, and the liquidation of anyone who doesn't fit in.

And it shows the correct response to this threat: crushing the totalitarians.

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The NWA is terrified of the ebb and flow of a living, changing world and lashes out with atrocity in response. The ppl who crush them--Nick and Danny--are positively attracted to modernity and fight for it. Danny wants to have a good time and be left alone. Nick wants to live out his ambitions.
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blanking on NWA for a second and imagining a very different film
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Both of these--the desire for gentle live-and-let-live hedonism and the desire to excel and surpass what already is--are essential motivations for liberalism. Indeed, each requires a good helping of the other to endure, even if they compete on the margin.
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