DETROPIA: Dismantling Detroit

From the upcoming feature-length documentary DETROPIA, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, and premiering at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

NYT Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/opinion/dismantling-detroit.html

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• detroitopia
• dismantling
• detroit
• scrap
• steel
• copper
• unemployment
• middle
• class
• china
• globalization

[ForeverWolfFilms]

Looks like a great movie, I look forward to hearing more about it.

[grundgemonster]

I'm thinking that much of the US will look like this when it collapses.

[t63094]

I would like to see this. It wasn't covered in the trailer, but I would hope that it covers the hideous job the city government has done over the last 30 years of managing just about everything.

[westads53]

@DoNotCiv Good to know. Thanks.

[DoNotCiv]

@westads53 I can do the "ourselves" argument as well.

[westads53]

@DoNotCiv Obviously we agree that the hazards of globalism are real and substantive, and not "nonsensical" as portrayed by BrotherWestinSmith. We just address it from different angles. I focused on the damage it does to ourselves, you focused on the damage it does to others.

[DoNotCiv]

@westads53 Globalization is great. Yeah right. That's why they have suicide nets strung up at the FOXCONN plants. That's why there are child slave laborers working open pit mines in Africa so that we can have cheap RE minerals to make all the cheap technogadget bullshit. Yeah globalization is great alright...if the goal is to create a slave planet. Nonsensical my ass. This guy is a fucking idiot.

[westads53]

Not all stuff is the same.

[Mar2623]

Stuff... That´s what´s life is all about

[westads53]

@BrotherWinstonSmith Good points on the whole, but regarding globalism, once you identify the groups behind the globalism movement, their motives and the threat they pose to our American creed, Constitution and culture, it may not seem so nonsensical.

[westads53]

So the answer is "collectivism," and the filmmaker leaves it there. I don't think so. The answer isn't collectivism as kids are taught in our public education indoctrination camps today, but a revival of the principles of freedom and individual liberty that made America exceptional in the first place, the freedom and individual liberty collectivists have been trying to destroy since at least the beginning of the Progressive Era.

[TheArchieSpeck]

Can't wait to see this.