This one may insinuate controversy, though it shouldnt as there is really nothing here not seen in my previous posts on Kleins The Shock Doctrine and hundreds of Chomsky talks. John Pilger has sometimes been called Englands Chomsky. It pays to add, much has changed since 2007 and the release of the documentary. With the passing of Chavez, Venezuelas future remains far from certain, as his successors lack both his personal magnetism and intensity of purpose. It is interesting to realize just how unified the elite media presence is, all over the world. It is, in many respects, the elite wing of post war thought brought to its own nightmare end, a malevolent, vs. benevolent ideological form of control. This should not be surprising and indeed many modern commentators(including Chomsky) trace the tendency all the way back the birth of the media elite, and public relations, at the time of Edward Bernays. The most holy shit moment for me in this documentary comes almost at the end when the Bolivian priest shows Pilger the mural he had drawn. I had to sit back and draw my breath and remember instantly the visual ideals of the French Revolution, perhaps as best pictured by Delecriox in his Liberty Leads the People. One of the late Chavezs most pertinent points was the unity of Simon Bolivars South American Revolution and the French Revolutionary tradition(why else would he chose Victor Hugo to make his final point, if not to touch Western audiences with the ghost of their own great revolutionary writer?), and that mural is so powerful in capturing it. Inspiring. And, with all that has past since 2007, especially the Occupy movement and of late, the rising Progressive Populist movement in this country we have to ask - Is the Revolution finally coming home as the Empire crumbles to dust around us?
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 12:38:01 +0000
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