Aug 3, 2017
Beyond just talking about rabbits shitting outside their cages, in this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Jesse & Matt will provide a sustained analysis on Michael Moore’s Where to Invade Next. Not only was this the finest documentary released in 2015, but the film is Michael Moore’s magnum opus without parallel or peer in his storied and fecund oeuvre. After shooting and releasing a misshapen and badly organized documentary Capitalism: A Love Story in 2009, it seemed that the director had lost his vision or was in some sleepy and lonesome lull. But it’s important to remember that the same lull in vision during his early career with Canadian Bacon (1995) and The Big One (1997) also appeared right before his breakout films, Bowling for Columbine and Fahrenheit 9/11. By going invisible for six years after the release Capitalism: A Love Story, shooting in ‘secret locations’ unknown to anyone, Michael Moore came back fully revitalized and more sophisticated in his rhetoric and tactics of persuasion, by rejecting partisanship and labels in order to reveal why other countries just simply do it better when it comes to solving daunting societal problems, such as work-stress, malnutrition, K-12 educational failures, student debt, work-life balance, drug addiction, prisons, as well as the loss of women’s rights and demanding government reforms. Jesse & Matt hope to tell you why Where to Invade Next is so vital to revving up America’s rudderless drift. They will also describe why the film’s uses of framing and persuasion are worth stealing--especially given the left’s tragic history at winning anything of lasting consequence amidst the Drum & Death March of Neoliberalism.
Mentioned In This Episode:
Wired Magazine’s “Good Enough: Celebrating 25 Years of the Goonies”
What Is Political Efficacy, and Why Is It a Better Measuring Stick Than Ideology?
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Manifesto Being Displayed at Campaign Tour-Stops
Classical Rhetoric: The Three Means of Persuasion: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
1: Michael Moore Invades Italy - Rest & Relaxation
Partial Clip of Where to Invade Next When Michael Moore Visits Italy
LUXOS on the Italian Suit-Making Masters: “Lardini: A Story Made in Italy”
The History and Personalities of Ducati as It
Celebrates Its 90th Anniversary
Italy and Its Untold History of the ‘Long Vacation’: Six to Eight Weeks of Vacation
John Maynard Keynes’ Utopian Idea That the 15-Hour Work Week Was Inevitable
Italian Five-Month Maternity Leave: “Maternity Leaves Around the World”
Sweden’s Poster Campaign for Paternity Leave: Here, Here and Here
Why Do 90% of Sweden’s Fathers Take Paternity Leave?
Why Germans Call Americans ‘Robots’: The U.S. Is the Most Overworked Nation
Sam Lowry’s Worker and Student Struggles in Italy: 1963-1973
Utopian, Revolutionary Socialism Requires Collective and Continual Struggle
2: France - School Lunches & Children’s Nutrition
Full Clip of Where to Invade
Next When Michael
Moore Visits France
Quartz Media: “A Typical School Lunch for Kids in Paris vs. New York”
British Mum & American Dad Experience French School Meals
France Spends Less on School Lunches Than the U.S.
France’s Tax Stubs Details Where Its Taxes Go; America Doesn’t
U.S. Teens Five Times More Likely to Become Pregnant Than French Teens
Memorable Jesse Herring Quote: “Life in America Is a Maze of Electric Fences”
John Oliver on Why America’s Sexual Education Programs Rely on Ignorance, Fear, Shame and Punishment
The Failure of America’s D.A.R.E. Program: “Why ‘Just Say No’ Doesn’t Work”
3: Finland - Best Place for K-12 Education in the World
The Atlantic: “The Place Where Ranking Schools Proves They're Actually Equal”
Dr. Pasi Sahlberg’s on Youtube: “What Can We Learn from the Finnish Education System?”
The Washington Post: “Eight Problems with Common Core Standards”
Chicago Study Finds Mixed Results for AVID Program
4: Slovenia - Debt-Free College Education
Slovenian Student Protests Explode Over Worsening University Conditions
BBC News: “Students Warn MPs of Tuition Fees 'Backlash'”
The Daily Californian: The History of UC Tuition Since 1868
5: Germany - Work, Labor Rights & Acknowledging State Crimes
The Germans Have a 36-Hour Work week, But Are Paid for 40 Hours
Boardroom Controlled by German Workers: Control Simple Majority Vote
GQ Magazine: “The Real Story of Germanwings Flight 9525 Crash”
Slate Magazine: “How Do German Students Learn About the Holocaust?”
The Huffington Post: “Why Doesn’t America Have A Museum of Slavery”
David Amsden in The New York Times: “Building the First Slavery Museum in America”
6: Portugal - Decriminalization of All Drugs
7: Norway - Rehabilitation as Punishment
Reddit User Posts Images of Dorms in Macedonia Versus Images of Norwegian Prisons
The New York Times: “The Radical Humaneness of Norway’s Halden Prison”
“A survey of inmates who were released in 2005 put Norway’s two-year recidivism rate at 20 percent, the lowest in Scandinavia, which was widely praised in the Norwegian and international press. For comparison, a 2014 recidivism report from the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics announced that an estimated 68 percent of prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years.”
Business
Insider: Norway Has the
Lowest Recidivism Rate of 20% Versus America’s Recidivism Which Is
80% in Contrast
How Norway Best Expresses Ubuntu Culture?
Prisoners Vote First in the Nation
NPR News: Obama Is the First Standing President to Go to a Federal Prison
The Express Tribune: “Norway Gunman Wants Japanese Psychiatrist: Lawyer”
8: Tunisia - Women’s Rights & Governmental Reform: Part I
Tunisia
Live: “Abortion in
Tunisia: A Shifting Landscape”
ERA Movement (Equal Rights Amendment) in the US: Unfinished Business
Time Magazine: “Bouazizi: The Man Who Set Himself and Tunisia on Fire”
Al Jazeera News: “Mohamed Bouazizi: Was the Arab Spring worth dying for?”
9: Iceland - Women’s Rights & Governmental Reform: Part II
BBC News: “The Day Iceland’s Women Went on Strike [in 1975]”
Vigdís Finnbogadóttir: The First Woman President in the World to Be Democratically Elected
ThinkProgress: “Iceland, Where Bankers Actually Go To Jail For Committing White-Collar Crimes”
10: The Berlin Wall - How Ideas Like Prisons Can Be Dismantled
Nations, Like Any Human-Made Structure, Can Change:
The Huffington Post: “Bernie Sanders’ Socialism Is as American as Apple Pie”
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