Admiring And Envying Michael Moore

FLIM PRODUCER/DIRECTOR MICHAEL MOORE, as he approaches the end of his life, can look back on his fascinating life, with, if nothing else, a sens of amusement, a smile, and the memory of a job well done. Not all of us, unfortunately, can do that. If nothing else, life is a grand adventure, and Moore's recent life has certainly been all of that. He filled a tanker truck with poisonous tap water from the city of Flint, Michigan, and sprayed it on the lawn of the governor's mansion of Michigan. He wrapped hundreds of yards of that iconic yellow crime scene tape around the headquarters of a major American financial services firm, entirely encircling the building. He walked into the headquarters of another major American financial services corporation, carrying handcuffs, asked to speak to the CEO, indicating that his intent was to make a citizen's arrest. Then, to cap it all off, he filmed all of these reckless actions/stunts for inclusion in his recently released documentary movie, Fahrenheit 11/9. What all these actions have in common, other than being totally disruptive, out of the ordinary, possible illegal, audacious, and weird, is that they all were entirely, completely, and irrefutably appropriate. the sort of thing which "someone had to do it." then too, they were all perpetrated by a man keenly aware of the obvious fact that he is living in a culture which in itself is entirely crazy, off its rocker, and utterly, perhaps irrevocably corrupt.Our major american financial services corporations are all criminal enterprises; its that simple. This is easily demonstrated by the mere fact that nearly all of them have been convicted at least once, in in most case more than once, of financial fraud and other crimes by the federal government. these convictions cannot be challenged, because the government's case, in all cases, was lock down solid beyond question. during the past decade, the Bank of america, for instance, has been convicted of financial crime half a dozen times; the most recent penalty was seventeen billion dollars; the feds have become impatient. What Moore did so audaciously, all of us should have joined him in doing, but we can at least say that he did it for us. The movie he got from it, now in major motion theaters everywhere, is a splendid example of his talent for truth telling, in simple, honest, irrefutable terms. Fahrenheit 11/9 is better than Fahrenheit 9/11, better than all his previous work, a truly magnificent achievement. Let's see how conservative defenders of the system try to find fault with it, to prove any errors of fact, as they most assuredly will; they will not succeed.