Saw Michael Moore's documentaries "Bowling for Columbine" and "farenheit 9/11". Remarkable documentaries and as I had read in the article by Swaminathan Aiyar even more so because they are blatantly socialist documenatries that have been released in the very heart of capitalism by capitalists and yet it has been a resounding success. Whether this means that Americans are sociaists who have embraced capitalism i know not and frankly I am not really concerned about it either. Moore is scathing on Bush and is so horribly a democrat that in his earnest to pull down the republicans ignores all the things that the democrats could have corrected while they were in power and chose not to. I don't know much about the american political system but what i do know is the current president is an ass and so is everyone else if they couldnt stop him from going on wild trips on fantasy ever so often.
Indian politicians have no qualms about making sure that the majority of the people live lives that reduce them to mere numbers. What I wonder is that if i made a movie that showed the truth about the political sytem in India would it be allowed to release in theatres and more importantly would anyone besides politicians, who would want to stone the theatre after the movie, get to see it? We protest about implications about lesbianism in our movies, we protest about religion, we protest about showing the truth in it. so then are we as free as we like to beleive or is it that we can be free as long as we are allowed to be free by the powers that be. A debate that still hasnt yielded any answers in all these years of existence of humanity and is present in every civilization and undoubtedly there arent going to to be any answers soon.