Guantanamo
It's still very important to watch The Road to Guantanamo.
This time I'll link it up for you, so it's free. Watch it.
This time I'll link it up for you, so it's free. Watch it.
posted by Hamish at
11:46 AM
Sunday, November 05, 2006
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6 Comments:
Damnit I thought it was gunna be porn!
Not quite, no.
Why is it important to watch it?
Because it's good and will make you dislike illegal prisons even more than you already do. It may even cause some sort of an uprising. Revolution if you will.
Maybe.
Good answer.
I dunno - these things cut both ways.
I certainly think *some* people should watch things like this.
But I mysekf already know everything I need to know about how completely evil what's going on at Guantanamo is.
There's also an extent to which being confronted too harshly with the horror of it all has a demoralizing, apathy-and-defeatism inducing effect.. like this:
>I wish there was something individuals could do to
>make things better (apart from voting in a better
>administration of course).
We don't need to vote in a 'better administration'.
The whole system is, in fact, totally chronically broken and needs to collapse. Which it will, quite naturally, under the weight of its own unsustainability.
It depends.. I can't really talk in this case coz I haven't actually watched the thing.
There is the rare artefact like Naomi Klein's No Logo (truly brilliant book - not ostensibly a book about magick, although it ties right in with, for eg, that stuff Grant Morrison was talking about - corporations are not so much in the business of selling products anymore, the products are just a vehicle and an excuse for selling symbols to people)
Which lays out the horror of our present situation in full - but then says, convincingly, "hey! this is fixable!"
They're the ones everyone should watch/read.
But the point is, the real revolution is in the mind, maaan.
The people are not gonna rise up en masse and smash the state. Forget about it.
But each of us can take back our own minds from the people who are seeking to control and pwn them. And ergo one by one, little piece by little piece, the system loses power and ultimately collapses.
Sorry, I wasn't planning to write an essay! But.. y'know?
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