The curse for me has been the fact that in making these, you know, documentary films, I've...
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Michael Moore:
The curse for me has been the fact that in making these, you know, documentary films, I've seen that actually can impact change, so I'm just compelled to keep making them. I went to Littleton, Colorado, where the Columbine shooting took place. And, I didn't know this, but when I arrived I learned what the primary job is of the parents of the kids who go to Columbine High School. The number one job in Littleton, Colorado. They work for Lockheed Martin, building weapons of mass destruction. But they don't see the connect between what they do for a living and what their kids do at school, or did at school. And so I'm kind of, you know, up on my high horse, thinking about this, and I thought, you know, I said to my wife, we both are sons and daughters of auto workers in Flint, Michigan. There isn't a single one of us, back in Flint, any of us, including us, who ever stopped to think, this thing we do for a living, the building of automobiles, is probably the single biggest reason why the polar ice caps are going to melt and end civilisation as we know it. There's no connect between, "I'm just an assembler on an assembly line, building a car", which is good for people and society, and it moves them around. But never stop to think about the larger picture, and the larger responsibility, of what we're doing. Ultimately, we have to, as individuals accept responsibility for our collective action and the larger harm that it causes, you know, in our world.
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They work for Lockheed Martin
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building weapons of mass destruction
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But they don t see the connect
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between what they do for a living
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and what their kids do at school
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or did at school
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And so I m kind of you know up on my high horse
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thinking about this and I thought you know
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I said to my wife
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we both are sons and daughters of auto workers
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in Flint Michigan
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There isn t a single one of us back in Flint
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any of us including us
Clip duration: 35 seconds
Views: 83
Timestamp in movie: 02h 08m 11s
Uploaded: 01 April, 2022
Genres: documentary, history
Summary: Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.
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00:19 There are many tools for bringing back community
00:37 Do I know you well enough to call you fellow plunderers
00:25 The death of birth
00:19 So we ve got to undo a lot of things
00:32 Sometimes it surprises me how effective you can actually be
00:36 If this many people around the country would do this
00:14 We can change the government
00:54 Fifteen corporations would like to control the conditions
00:10 In our search for wealth and for prosperity
00:18 Through the voices of CEOs whistle blowers
00:35 The eagle
00:34 The word corporate gets attached in almost
00:36 The modern corporation has grown out of the industrial age
00:26 To determine the kind of personality
00:33 We see a lot of conflicting evidence
00:35 Big mistake
00:31 What happens in the areas where these corporations
01:05 It's about competition it's about market share
00:31 When I was researching the takeover of public space