Allen,
If we
could bottle all the energy behind that “long winded” verbiage flowing from
your fingertips, we just might be able to break free of the fossil-fuel burning
Matrix.
I don’t
pretend to speak for the ‘average’ person when I say that you got some pretty
good ideas, I guess. Well, at least I
think you do. Oh screw it, I can only understand about half of the points you’re
making (you are making points, right?) and I can never get to the end of any of
your lengthy posts. Sometimes the more
I read, the more irritated I get.
It’s kind
of like you set people up, by implying that you want a discussion or debate on
a very broad range of issues, then WHAM you hit us with this free-flowing
banter that I doubt many of us has the sanity to debate point for point, even
if they had the time to absorb it.
Sometimes the
eloquent, detailed expression of your idea comes off condescending and elitist. The inherent dilemma I see is a white male
with his elaborate plan (which I am not judging the content of) to save the
world, attempting to shape the debate in a very confined, narrow way. I believe the majority of people don’t know
what consensus is, let alone how to reach it, nor do people have a basic
understanding of the issues. This is
why I presented The Matrix analogy, to give people something they could quickly
identify with when trying to describe globalization and the complex mechanism
of control over us.
We CAN
escape the Matrix, but I’m not gonna pretend that a white savior-Jesus-Neo
individual (and I’m not suggesting you are) will come up with an end all, beat
all solution to our predicament. It is
going to take a mass collective effort and that starts with mobilizing the
masses toward a common goal. If that
common goal is a just, sustainable & creative environment free of
oppression, THEN we can start having an open, consensus-building dialogue en masse
about how to get to that goal.
The Matrix
helps us to understand the layers upon layers of lies and propaganda the
majority of us have been sucked into believing since our birth. I’m very glad that something like this film
has came along, because before it I felt very distressed that I could not
articulate how I felt about the world and that I wasn’t alone in my thinking. Since Seattle, most of us in the movement
have struggled with defining ‘globalization’ in a way that will leave no doubt
in anyone’s mind as to the seriousness of what lies ahead and is taking place
now. A word that can resonate with every
oppressed person in order to motivate him or her beyond the confines of our
daily machinations. Tricky isn’t it?
I commend
you on your well-researched work. But
it’s a little dry. It lacks the usual
inclusion of humor, quotes, examples and dramatic license that other
literary-types utilize to hold our attention.
You know the old saying, “If you want it to play in Peoria….”
“I’m a
human being. My life has value,” and “God dammit I’m not gonna take it anymore!”
are two memorable lines from another great film, Network. They express two very distinct and legitimate
feelings, existence & rage.
I have now
spiraled into a ramble, making little sense to only myself. I think I’ll quit while I’m ahead.
dougRANTula
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