02 - Remix Manifesto

Now that's one of the most promising kinds of documentaries.

Most documentaries shown on Discovery Channel, History Channel, etc. are more of what I'd like to call corporate Documentaries. Excluding the blockbusters like Supersize Me and Michael Moores works, they are the most profitable documentaries. However , while they are interesting to the majority of people, they don't truly connect with me on a personal level. However this documentary, in addition to some others I have come across by chance, feels like it belongs to me more than any other.

The idea of owning ideas is a frightening concept in the long run but it sounds tantalizing in short term. However, being the empathetical idiot I am, I keep on considering the other side. Why would a label want to much money and why would they deny the artist any of the gain. In a way it's no different than the people working at multimillion dollar companies making minimum wage. If a company grows, there's no incentive to help you grow.

I guess all that does is help create a dog-eat-dog mentality where the workers and customers try to screw over the company thinking "they can make it back" or "they are jerks". The company takes this as a threat and replies in their own ways which may or may not hurt them back. The sad part is that the company, being a unified group as opposed to being a random set of individuals, usually wins. Reminds me of that story about a bundle of sticks being stronger than each twig.

Maybe we could work the other way. What if everything is bought, all the companies make all the money and buy each other out. There would be the end where no one can buy anything else. The people at the lower end may not be able to increase rank and become the bottom masses. Maybe they complain to the head and then the head creates better surroundings. Because if they loose them, the other big companies will hire them. And if there is no labor, they will not be able to...

actually there are too many holes in that logic... lets stop it now.

The point is that everyone works out for what is best for them. Especially those who care less how others feel. It's no different from any other specie on earth. Besides we all die. So nothing really matters. That should be a comforting statement, instead of a depressing one.

PS: Shooting the first interview this week. I'm going crazy!