Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 09:27:16 -0700
From: Judy <jaw-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: And afterward?


geof, all

>
>
>In some ways it's the collision of MTV-video sensibility and the possibility
>that Moore's film will have some impact that interests me.  Judy brings up a
>Moore being okay w/ his film already being distributed/pirated on 
>the Internet,
>and while one can appreciate Moore's personal take on that,


by the way, he also said that what he does object to is people 
obtaining the video in order to make money on it.  He said he 
objected "to others profiting from his labor,"  that, he would 
consider stealing, but not for profit, he considers sharing.


>  perhaps the broader
>implication is whether such file sharing doesn't suggest itself to a
>sensibility that makes Moore's film merely more of the same so far 
>as one's DVD
>collection is concerned.  I would like to think otherwise, but during the show
>I attended there was as much talk about the prospect of Spiderman 2 
>coming out,
>and whether that would be any good, at the end of F911 as anything else. ...
>

Of course, this is the case.  I don't see any single piece of 
propaganda having the power to penetrate the fog of inertia to a 
point of altering its course decisively.  But I am glad to see this 
kind of content become 'part of the collection,' part of the public 
discourse, its assertions out on the table, even if it gets quickly 
swept off.  It's part of a process.  In becoming just part of the 
collection, it establishes its marketability.  The accompanying 
cooptation dynamic is inevitable. But marketability suggests the hope 
that more is better, more moore is better, more moore propaganda will 
be invested in, and Moore clones will have their chance.  I feel more 
optimistic this moore phenomenon as a fearture of our era than i 
would without it, rightly or wrongly.
Judy