Jan 10 2009
working within the system michael moore 2
, “The rich man will sell you the rope to hang himself with if he thinks he can make a buck off of it.” Well, I’m the rope—I hope I am part of the rope—and they also believe that when people watch my stuff or maybe watch this film or whatever, they think that, you know, “Well, you know what, they will watch this but they won’t do anything, you know, because we’ve done such a good job of numbing their minds and dumping them down, you know, they’ll never affect it; the people aren’t going to leave the couch and go and do something political.” They’re convinced of that. I’m convinced of the opposite. I’m convinced that a few people are gonna leave this movie theater, or get up off the couch, and go and do something, anything, to get the world back into our hands.[1]
[1] “Prognosis,” The Corporation, DVD, directed by Jennifer Abbot and Mark Achbar, (2003; Zeitgeist Films: 2005).
