As is described in the "Second Bill of Rights" by Roosevelt, we people ought be own:
the right of a descent job,
the right of an adequate and deserved wage,
the right of the general health care
the right of a house
the right of the education
the right of the pension
and, maybe of course, like the right of a 4-week paid holiday.
that's what the middle class wants. and these are the people who are the most descent, cultivated, affectionate, philanthropic, willing to do charity ones. According to morality system, to religion and belief, to the wise words of our ancient greatest souls, these people bears the most advanced and civilized merits, thereby, logically should be leading our society.
However, they are now being the sheep, exploited and killed by the greedy and cruel wolves. how this happen? well, a lot of reasons, and Michael just showed it really clear in the movie. Basically, they are making use of the dark side of human nature, they are manipulating the fools while fooling the wise. the influencing power, the ability to manipulating people, is the most terrible and powerful ability! It's the human world, you can do anything with the support of most people even for the darkest deals. and you will accomplish nothing if you cannot get the support of people even if you know it is right.(Creepy, sounds like we are not far away from the time of Copernicus.)
I love Michael's way of explicitly pointing out the darkness of Capitalism, and i love his passion in taking action to be against it and influencing other people to be joining him. I love him as an artist, a humanist and a middle class.
but for Capitalism, whether it's good or not? i don't know and i can't tell. for humanist, socialism is perfect. Care about people is the core rule of it. but if that's really good, then why within a hundred years, not even one country has succeed in it. So till now, can i claim it's just a theory. Socialism brings about a even middle class society, but obviously dampen the pace of economy, science evolve, which turns to be the standard of living. Maybe at sometime when human wealth has reached some degree that greedy and endless started to disappear from human nature will Socialism truly become practical. Yet I doubt that ever gonna happen. those dark side will always sit in human nature, so as those merits.
while neither -ism can help us out, i truly believe a great government, or more precisely, a great and descent leader of the country can save us. Li guang yao, the former president of Singapore, sets a very good example. to boost the economy and level up the living standard of people faster, he uses Capitalism well. At the same time, he prioritized education and ware fare. it's Singapore's luck to have this kind of leader. yes, it's lucky. and it's rare.
Roosevelt sets a great goal, but unfortunately he didn't wait to reach it. In fact, hundreds of years past, none of us did. So as a middle class myself, i will not rely on the government to save me. instead, to earn myself the set of the rights, i will equip myself to fit and take advantage of the game rules.
see? i have become one of the sheep, reluctant to rebel, believe that i can somehow become a smart sheep that can share the fruit from the wolves. See how hard it is for the revolutionist? by the least use of the manipulating skills of those wolves, the sheep is prone to fall again..
HD
