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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGroundbreaking, must see TV is "Vice" = please read and maybe learn about it
I'm writing to thank the ones who bring it to me, because it does what others could do and don't.
Every time I see this show, which is a half hour divided into two stories of 15 min. ea.
(on HBO Fri. 11pm to 11:30, produced by Bill Maher, and phenomenally and courageously filmed and presented by Shane Smith and many others
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_%28TV_series%29)
I am slack-jawed, wide-eyed, sitting up with a straight spine, wishing all of America could/would see it, and am augmented and educated and wrung out emotionally.
There may be smidgeons of knowledge in me on some of these topics, and then the show hones in and gives me the dope. Or I sit up and pay attention to brand new stuff.
There are political and social issues explored in areas of the world we don't hear about / think about / or even know about. And every time the show is over my ignorance overwhelms me and that's why I am writing this.
I will sit and feel both cheated and sad. Because my eyes were pried open to be exposed to something real in the world that has previously not been presented to me. Every time my mind is called on to pay attention to happenings that are more than important.
That's the being cheated part.
The sad part of course is that there is - and I comment now on tonight's segment about Papua /New Guinea - so much political intrigue and subterfuge and cheating of natives going on, and without this show we would never know. Their objections to fracking and the destruction of their land for the sake of satiating the energy thirst of the world brings them nothing but dislocation and having their land savaged. The money as in the US of A, goes to the top.
What we don't know about our world is monumental - our focus as presented in our own TV (Bengazhi
.this week, anyway)
is ridiculous. Tiny. It in no way benefits and elevates and evolves and educates the American people.
I feel a bit silly here to be maudlin in my emotion as I praise a TV show. It's more than deserved.
"Vice" recognizes that we the people can easily rise to being thought of as smart and that bringing us the things we need to know rounds us out as citizens of the World who know that we are all connected.
I'm augmented by the above mentioned folks for letting me glimpse the huge world I am a citizen of and I want to thank them.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)One of my "must see" shows.
Happily, it is also to be found on YouTube, and its website has good information also.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Most people were first exposed to Michael C. Ruppert through the 2009 documentary, Collapse, directed by Chris Smith. Collapse was one of the scariest documentaries about our world and the fragile state of our planet. It is also one of VICE's favourite films from the past ten years.
Michael was forced to leave the LAPD after claiming that the CIA was complicit in selling drugs across America, and he quickly became one of the most original and strident voices to talk about climate change, government corruption and peak oil through his website, From the Wilderness.
Following the release of Collapse, Michaels personal life underwent something of a collapse itself and he paid off all his debts, left behind all his friends and moved with his dog Rags to Colorado, planning to commit suicide.
VICE caught up with Michael in the middle of the epic beauty of the Rocky Mountains at the end of last year. We found a man undergoing a spiritual rebirth still passionate about the world and with a whole new set of apocalyptic issues to talk about.
Apocalypse, Man is an intimate portrait of a man convinced of the imminent collapse of the world, but with answers to how the human spirit can survive the impending apocalypse.
http://www.vice.com/en_dk/vice-special/apocalypse-man-part-1
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Everyone seems to like it.
whistler162
(11,155 posts)Sorry don't intend to purchase a subscription now or ever.