Oscar Awards: White Elephant in the Room
The continued acceptance of thematic underpinnings of Academy honors that are reflecting a sustained adherence to Euro-American global, colonial, and racial hegemony is the issue that needs addressing.
Capitalism: A Democrat's Love Story
Moore’s intents at attacking capitalism is much appreciated, and most timely for him to win few more awards from the European jury. But his tools of deconstructing capitalism as necessarily antithetical to political democracy, his analysis of class relations from the standpoint of Bill of Rights, his reliance on Germany, England and Japan as model democracies, and his aspirations to offer the political democracy as a solution to the global economic crisis, instead of isolating it as one of the root causes are worth inspections all over again.