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barry,mcnamara,simon,robson,politics,war,corporatism,corporate,fascism,fascist What Barry Says: Animation to the PolemicWhat Barry Says: Animation to the Polemictags:“What Barry Says: Animation to the Polemic” was written by Barry McNamara. He says a lot in a 2:40 minutes and presents his thoughts on what he calls “war corporatism.” The graphics are impressive. It won Best Animation at the Brooklyn Film Festival and Portobello Film Festival in 2004.
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This piece is very slick, with a high production value, but is also high on assertion and low on actual information.
Still, I like the heart behind it.
regarding dag's mention (above) of what this phenomenon has already been known as, for a long time - the military industrial complex.
for anyone who may just be too young, perhaps, and didn't know it already?
that term was coined by none other than the guy in charge of the machine, at the time.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, on his very last day in office. Jan 17, 1961.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Eisenhower-warns-of-the-military-industrial-complex
http://www.videosift.com/video/Eisenhowers-Farewell-Address-to-the-American-People
ps. those aren't copies of eachother. they both use the original eisenhower address, as well as other footage.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Corporate-Fascism-None-of-us-really-matter-to-them
i thought the new tags would help. also, gave credit to co-creator Simon Robson.
http://www.lostinspace.com/htm/crew/simon_robson/index.shtml
thanks for the links my15, and I like your new avatar
in this case, they'd also have to slap that label, on none other than WW2's General Of Everything, and the last Republican president i liked, Dwight David Eisenhower.
so, in this case, it'd be a label i'll happily wear. "Hello. My name is Fuckyou Warpigs."
ps.
Ike also boinked his secretary, while president, everyone!
i didn't give a shit about it in his, or Clinton's, case.
not really pertinent, i know. but i so rarely get a reason to discuss Eisenhower.
and i like to use the word 'boink'.
too bad we can't change our screen names here at videosift as I really like "Fuckyou Warpigs"
Lest we forget: "I smoked, but didn't inhale." Wow... just wow.
i don't believe for one minute, that any of them really believed Monica was sexually harrassed.
Monica sure didn't seem to think so.
and lest we forget - i smoke pot too. so what? i think every adult human being should be able to do so, legally. by our government's own accounts, about 20% of the country does, illegally, anyway.
so, i also don't give a shit that he lied his way around a stigma, that's attached to weed for no good reason. if we had our priorities straight, he wouldn't have had to lie about what he did, while Bush freely admits to being a major cokehead, and alcoholic, and merely points skyward to make it all wholesome.
fuck.
that.
You want to see integrity? Watch Barack Obama in this clip (I don't think I sifted it, so you're welcome to if you wish):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpBzQI_7ez8
http://www.videosift.com/video/Barack-Obama-I-inhaled-frequently-That-was-the-point
and yeah, i know the additional points you made, above, are valid as well. just a matter of small variations in our internal political value systems.
but i think we clearly both understand and appreciate eachother's positions, which really don't differ much, all things considered.
thanks, ross!
war corporatism - Daddy Warbucks in the Little Orphan Annie comic strip ~1925
potentially, sure.
which is why there's one thing, that's never supposed to happen.
you're never to allow those who would profit from warfare, to decide whether or not warfare is warranted, or conducted.
a corporation has one legal responsibility: to attempt to make a profit, at all times, for its shareholders.
i have no problem with that.
so long as anyone connected to that corporation, has no conflict of interest, by being in a position to decide, whether or not their products get used.
dig?
it would also be interesting to see which corporations (media companies) had what stance before the war or which ones have profited the most
but, especially given the content of this sift?
i'd say this makes a pretty handy chart.