get ready. we’re going to see and hear of more scenes like these:
it reminds me of mantadhar al-zaidi throwing his shoes at dubya. (al-zaidi just received a three-year prison sentence for that brave and creative protest, though he continues to be viewed as a hero by the people of iraq. and by me.)
and it reminds me very much of a scene from network, a thirty-some-year-old movie. i saw it when it first came out, at a theater in the village with a big crew of friends that included david peel, who was quite a wild guy at the time, fronting a punk band in the heyday of CGBG’s and patti smith.
when we got to that famous scene in the movie — which none of us knew was coming, it was a brand-new release and there was no internet then handing out spoilers like lollipops at the dentist — david stood on top of his seat and started screaming along with the window shouters. by the end of the scene, half the people in the theater were doing the same thing.
it’s like patti smith says: the people have the power. sometimes it takes just one voice to get things rolling. it’s happening all over france. it’s happening in barcelona. it’s happened in chicago. and we’ve only just begun.
we’re mad as hell, and we’re not going to take this any more:
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I watched Network again a few weeks ago — first time in probably 10 years — and it stunned me how prescient and how, sadly, relevant this film is. I’m as mad as hell, too!
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