I don't really know where to begin. Perhaps by reversing and reiterating the now somewhat banal slogan 'The Political is Personal.'
The following episode of NY Times political podcast 'The Daily' follows the story of a factory worker who voted for Trump as her factory was shutting down to relocate their labor base to Mexico.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/podcasts/the-daily/factory-jobs.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-daily&action=click&contentCollection=podcasts®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=collection
Labor vs. market, global capitalism, corporate greed - these are all words that aptly diagnose the exploitation. And these words also bear monolithic concepts that feel larger than life. And the upper class exploiting the proletariat is also a history-long story...... IDK. But Art exposes.
"Certainly theater cannot be expected to do, or even identify, the work of activism. But is there any hope that the unique sort of collective illusion-making that playwrights craft can offer new ways for us to engage ideas and feel for others in ways that differ from the mass manipulations turning us over to sponsors and into cheerleaders for the politics of vengeance? In other words, can we disinter poor Bert Brecht from the rubble of the Cold War victory and salvage some imperative for plays that at least want to be useful? Can theater mobilize the sort of identification and irony that lets us get involved and recognize the means and meanings of that involvement?"
So what I'm trying to say.... In this post...... I guess on the same note as Howard Zinn by crediting the movements of resistance, by switching the historiography of the exploitation from the bourgeois to the proletariat... we can mobilize and we can demonstrate their power and resilience. Sorry I am just citing a bunch of works that remind me of the documentary: but Chantal Akerman's documentary 'From the Other Side' also.... just increases more humanity. And by telling their personal stories as actual people, as parents, as daughters, as civilians, not as the collective 'proletariat' which in and of itself is an abstract entity - we can harbor more empathy.
The following episode of NY Times political podcast 'The Daily' follows the story of a factory worker who voted for Trump as her factory was shutting down to relocate their labor base to Mexico.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/podcasts/the-daily/factory-jobs.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-daily&action=click&contentCollection=podcasts®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=collection
Labor vs. market, global capitalism, corporate greed - these are all words that aptly diagnose the exploitation. And these words also bear monolithic concepts that feel larger than life. And the upper class exploiting the proletariat is also a history-long story...... IDK. But Art exposes.
"Certainly theater cannot be expected to do, or even identify, the work of activism. But is there any hope that the unique sort of collective illusion-making that playwrights craft can offer new ways for us to engage ideas and feel for others in ways that differ from the mass manipulations turning us over to sponsors and into cheerleaders for the politics of vengeance? In other words, can we disinter poor Bert Brecht from the rubble of the Cold War victory and salvage some imperative for plays that at least want to be useful? Can theater mobilize the sort of identification and irony that lets us get involved and recognize the means and meanings of that involvement?"
So what I'm trying to say.... In this post...... I guess on the same note as Howard Zinn by crediting the movements of resistance, by switching the historiography of the exploitation from the bourgeois to the proletariat... we can mobilize and we can demonstrate their power and resilience. Sorry I am just citing a bunch of works that remind me of the documentary: but Chantal Akerman's documentary 'From the Other Side' also.... just increases more humanity. And by telling their personal stories as actual people, as parents, as daughters, as civilians, not as the collective 'proletariat' which in and of itself is an abstract entity - we can harbor more empathy.
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