Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting Annnnimal faaaarrrmmm ;-) Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book:
You're Animal Farm!
by George Orwell
You are living proof that power corrupts and whoever leads you will become just as bad as the past leaders. You're quite conflicted about this emotionally and waver from hopelessly idealistic to tragically jaded. Ultimately, you know you can't trust pigs. Your best moments are when you're down on all fours.
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Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein's documentary is as much protest as it is narrative
There he is, scurrying from clouds of tear gas and riot police at an uprising in Buenos Aires. And again, nodding his head in sympathetic disapproval as a group of unemployed Argentinian car-parts workers suffer yet another setback. Meet Avi Lewis, self-styled "activist journalist"
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