Sunday, September 17, 2017
Moore and Chomsky lost in the jungle
Michael Moore, Lumbago Or Heartburn
The West A Nest Of Hornets
Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU
(27 illustrated pages, 47 minutes read)
It all started when I came across this following article on Medium:
Devouring culture. An @NYMag site. Sep 6, 2017,
The Thankless Task of Being Michael Moore
He’s been right about everything before, and he really thinks you are living in a bubble.
That was for me not so much a revelation as a confirmation. I had followed Michael Moore a lot and always found his facts absolutely right but his style particularly irritating at times and quite obviously staged. He was telling us something true but in such a way that we had to keep him and his story at a distance if not out of reach.
I think Michael Moore has never realized his tone was often neutralizing his argumentation. And this tone was the same in his films or in his books. I felt both embarrassed and annoyed by the constructed demonstration that could have been shortened into a simple statement of facts instead of some kind of guidance through a labyrinth of circumstantial elements that had little importance as for the facts themselves and the conclusion that could easily and directly be drawn from the simple statement of the facts.
That’s exactly why I have never liked philosophy: it needs twenty pages to demonstrate that the statement “The sun rises in the morning in the east” is true whereas the simple observation of the sun rising in the morning would answer the question in five minutes, if not less actually.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MICHAEL MOORE, CAPITALISM A LOVE STORY, reviewed on January 11, 2010.
MICHAEL MOORE, MIKE’S ELECTION GUIDE, reviewed on September 23, 2008.
MICHAEL MOORE, WILL THEY EVER TRUST US AGAIN? reviewed on June 20, 2012.
NIALL FERGUSON – CIVILIZATION, THE WEST AND THE REST, reviewed on December 10, 2012
THEODORE J. KACZYNSKI, a.k.a. “THE UNABOMBER” – TECHNOLOGICAL SLAVERY – INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY AND ITS FUTURE, reviewed on August 4, 2015
NOAM CHOMSKY – REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM, reviewed on April 30, 2017
The article by VULTURE on Medium was a long study trying to demonstrate that Michael Moore was a prophet that could not be understood in the USA, his home. The only reason not given by this study is that a prophet is never heard in his own family, neighborhood, home, country, or whatever. Jesus, a Jew who was not a prophet, was not heard by the Jews and he had to be amplified by the apostle of the Gentiles for his prophecy to be heard. Mahomet, a real prophet this time, was not heard in his home town and had to get out of it in exile to start his conquest and being heard.
Michael Moore is not better and I consider it is because he systematically rebuffs people, insists heavily on what he thinks is the truth, on taking a stance and a tone that is humbly disquieting and even quietly disturbing. He cannot be heard because he does not want to be heard by the masses, only by the mental elite that shares his frustrated unbalance. He sounds so much like some of my old friends who were born in the working class and moved out of it and then constantly bring the working class as the norm of their thinking, which is, of course, a lie.
A very common idea: one can never forget and even erase what one was born and raised in. A certain Burrhus Frederic Skinner based his social Darwinism, his social behaviorism, his social and racial segregationism on this very principle. Human beings remain locked up in the Skinner boxes in which they are born. We all know it is wrong, false and even vain, and it becomes pathetic when someone who is so far from what his working-class father was to pretend he had remained faithful to the working class of his father, no matter what.
To deem how wrong this approach of things is we must keep in mind that the billionaire Trump is the elected President of the blue-collar dissatisfied and discontented workers which is in a way unexplainable, except that people only like the words and the music of what they hear and are totally blind at who may be playing that music and howling these words. And the interview given by Hillary Clinton to PBS Newshour on Friday, September 15 did not show any understanding of this simple fact: you are supported by those who like your words, your tone, your music, and as Marshall McLuhan would say this is an all-sensorial experience: one LIKES in one go with all senses the person concerned and that locks up the sixth sense of the Buddhist, the mind.
But let me give you a few instances of my approach of such critical thinkers like Michael Moore and how they speak a language no one who is not part of their elite can understand.
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 2:15 PM 
