Monday, November 10, 2008

This is What Democracy Looks Like

I liked this video, it really showed a different perspective than what we often see from mainstream media. I like how it reinforced the idea that people will always come together for whatever reason, be it to get their daily bread or to stand up for a cause. Like someone said in the movie, the people who exploit the earths resources are the same people who exploit human resources, so they were made for each other. I agree with what someone said in the video, that people have the right of assembly and protest, until you actually begin to make a change. which at what point the government breaches people's rights to shut down any impending revolution. It seems sad that something like this happens, because in reality we are trapped, we may not see i directly. But any direct demand for change will not come easily. I think that the people in the video give hope to an idea for anarchism or socialism, because it shows collaboration and cooperation for a cause. But the only problem is these are the people fighting for the cause they care about, this is not the entire population, which would need to be involved in a socialist or anarchist society, which makes me a little more skeptical about all people working together

1 comment:

Ideas,Ideologies (Abby) said...

I agree with what you say about the difficulty of getting an entire population to fight for the same cause. For a Socialist nation to succeed, there needs to be a commitment of all citizens to work for the equality of all the people, therefore discouraging competition and capitalism. The movie does show how socialist and even anarchist ideas are pushed to the forefront, where a group of people from all different professions voluntarily got together to make a change. I really liked how the movie pointed out the difference of what was happening with what the media portrayed to the general public. It upsets me how the media relates the news without actually having the facts of why the people were protesting and even what the anarchist groups stood for.