. . . Aaaand I screwed up my sleep cycle again

Finally sat down and watched The Corporation. Very good film; must buy the book it's based on.

Also reinforced the idea that none of the political or economic "ism brothers" describes my ideal world. I have no trust in either capitalism or communism; they're both patriarchal to the core - and socialism might have made a good go of it if what John Stuart Mill started hadn't ever gotten contamination from Marx, but now it's a hopeless bastard child of the two. My view of democracy has been adequately described elsewhere - was it Churchill who said it was the worst form of government except for all the others that had been tried? Unfortunately, very few of us seem to actively want to try something yet again other. (And at any rate, it's certainly preferable to multinational corporate capitalism as a governmental system, which appears to be what we're headed headlong for.)

I'm vaguely annoyed that the primary filmmaker's previous project appears to be a lionization of Noam Chomsky, who's great as a cultural critic but who has managed to ruin the careers of far too many promising young linguists who dared to publicly disagree with him. I suppose no one's perfect, but still - between Chomsky and Michael Moore, I had to keep muttering "asshole" at the screen, for people I agreed with! (Then again, if there aren't jerks on your side, you're not a big enough movement to make a difference yet.)

. . . Aaaand I screwed up my sleep cycle again

Finally sat down and watched The Corporation. Very good film; must buy the book it's based on.

Also reinforced the idea that none of the political or economic "ism brothers" describes my ideal world. I have no trust in either capitalism or communism; they're both patriarchal to the core - and socialism might have made a good go of it if what John Stuart Mill started hadn't ever gotten contamination from Marx, but now it's a hopeless bastard child of the two. My view of democracy has been adequately described elsewhere - was it Churchill who said it was the worst form of government except for all the others that had been tried? Unfortunately, very few of us seem to actively want to try something yet again other. (And at any rate, it's certainly preferable to multinational corporate capitalism as a governmental system, which appears to be what we're headed headlong for.)

I'm vaguely annoyed that the primary filmmaker's previous project appears to be a lionization of Noam Chomsky, who's great as a cultural critic but who has managed to ruin the careers of far too many promising young linguists who dared to publicly disagree with him. I suppose no one's perfect, but still - between Chomsky and Michael Moore, I had to keep muttering "asshole" at the screen, for people I agreed with! (Then again, if there aren't jerks on your side, you're not a big enough movement to make a difference yet.)