all-is-for-all:

It’s so aggravating watching these liberal-friendly documentaries tackling the corruption of one individual industry and not taking note of the pattern and connecting it to the larger whole. Food Inc, Bottled Life, Park Avenue, etc, all implicitly insist on the inherent goodness of capitalism and liberal democracy, except for the particular issue they’re focused on. “There is corruption here because unaccountable, profit-seeking entities are privatizing/hijacking the commons. Here, the wealthy enrich themselves to the detriment of everyone else.” That’s literally capitalism as a whole. Either the filmmakers are just completely oblivious to the interconnectedness of these issues and the injustice of capitalism, or they are fully aware of it and just aim to peddle vanilla “more government regulation on big business” solutions to petit-bourgeoisie liberals. My guess is it’s the latter.

We need more docs that note the pattern and tackle capitalism as a whole, as the cancerous behemoth that it is.

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11:37 am  •  22 August 2017  •  1,479 notes