I don't believe anyone reading this website would not know about the filmmaker Michael Moore. His being a Unitedstater Socialist doesn't mean much to anyone outside the United States. What is considered socialist in the USA is likely to fall in the category of "not completely fascist" in the civilised world. See in particular the big debate that happened there after the Abu Ghraib scandal about whether torture is acceptable or not on someone suspected of terrorist acts. Patriots supported it, Socialists opposed it ; whether it was OK to torture someone suspected of terrorism, yep. That will remind my German friends of the good old times for sure.
What I mean to say is that I agree 100% with his opposition to what the civilised world would call Capitalist Barbarism. I'm having more issues with the tools used.
Deception, lies, manipulation, intentional misrepresentation, misleading... Check. On both sides, left and right. What kind of truth requires such methods to be delivered? The movies of Michael Moore always gave me the impression that they were causing more harm than good to the cause they were defending because of the unethical means used and the lack of transparent ways to crosscheck the "facts" presented.
I like more the approach of the Yes Men to the issue. They do answer to the lies with more lies but in a way that is unmistakably recognised as such. They never claim to tell the truth. I found their latest movie extremely non-manipulative AND extremely good.
You can buy it at... guess where... You can't buy it. They are so fucking cool that they have released it under a (pretty restrictive) Creative Commons licence on Bittorrent. So many people are seeding it, it takes a mere few seconds to download it. If you like it, you're invited to help them make more with a financial donation through the same website you used to find the torrent file.
Which is: http://vodo.net/yesmen
So 100% of what you pay goes to them, instead of 5% in the case of buying a DVD.
You can of course stream it from the web, but when the download is so quick, I don't see the point really.
If you liked it and you have a job, do donate something. It matters a great deal.
