Monday, April 03, 2017
The devil is in paradise
MICHAEL MOORE – ROGER AND ME – 1989
This film has aged horribly and phenomenally. In order to
expose the total inhumane and non-empathetic attitude of The boss of General Motors,
Roger XXX, in 1988, when GM closed eleven factories in the USA, including the one
in Flint, Michigan, and then opened eleven factories in Mexico and other
foreign countries where labor was cheaper than in the USA, Michael Moore in
this film appears today as defending a position that is bringing a whole vision
of the world to ruin and chaos.
The working class in those days, up to the 1990s and at
times even beyond, be it blue collar or white collar, had been educated if not
tamed or broken-in and enslaved into the ideology that you had to get a job at
18 or 20 or even 22 and 24, and it was THE ONLY job you’ll have all lifelong
and you will retire and even die in it. They then stopped learning, stopped
improving, stopped being dynamic and athletic. They started getting fat,
enjoying hours in front of TV and the satisfying though humdrum routine of a
life that was a descent into hell.
Then you can imagine the drama if they lost their jobs. It
is true the whole system was based on that planting these human plants in permanent
places since human beings are perennials as is well known. And you can imagine
what this ideology, this life style could produce as for distortion and
inhumanity, like sexism and genderism, racism, nationalism, and so many other -isms
including rebellion-ism, provocation-ism, jingo-ism (and dingo-ism), antisemitism,
anti-intellectualism, etc.-ism. These human beings became chattel, human
possessions of the business that exploited them, and pumped them dry of all
resources.
Came the big recession of 2008-2009 and it luckily produced
at first Obama-ism or “Yes-You-Can-ism” and after eight years of not coming out
of the hole by going back to the good old days when you were born in any
no-matter-which-industry to retire and die in it they moved to Trump-ism and Political-Hollywood-ism.
And a millionaire braggart and his band of circus-and-menagerie millionaires were
able to capture their attention with fake promises, like reopening the coal
mines, which he could do but not with human miners, rather robotized coal-diggers,
or reopen the car factories, but not with human blue collar workers like in Mexico
where they are cheap but with robotized blue collar workers who are even
cheaper than workers in Mexico.
What the Chinese are doing because they have to cope with
the one child per family policy and replace three or four out-going low
qualified workers by one highly qualified worker, that is to say shifting to highly
automated and robotized, in one word or acronym AI-ed or should I say AI-zed,
industry, administration, commerce etc., just as they shifted from a cash
economy to the most virtualized monetary exchanges imaginable on earth, Trump
and his acolytes are going to do it in order to even increase some more their
profit margins.
The millionaire in the White House, and all his millionaire
pals, know that but they think that in four years the naïve blind monkeys who
elected them will have forgotten the promises and hopefully there will be no
inflation, for what it may matter, and hopefully the people will be so drunk
with fury that they will start breaking everything and they will be dealt with the
National Guard and real bullets. Because, and here Michael Moore shows it so
well, cynicism is the first and main characteristic of the “ruling class,”
capitalistic, elected or not, appointed or just social climbing.
Good morning the post-hang-over era and good afternoon the
pre-delirium-tremens curse. We only have the leaders we deserve and I must say
that the ideology birth-life-death-in-one-job only deserves leaders who are
ruling over our toilet habits. And they will certainly not invent like in
Brussels the common toilet, serve everyone and all people indifferently. Look
at North Carolina.
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 7:42 AM 
