“It’s a Wonderful World.”Answer to Last Entry's Question: Moore was brought up Roman Catholic and attended St. John's Elementary School for primary school, as well as a Diocesan seminary at age 14. He then attended Davison High School, where he was active in both drama and debate, graduating in 1972.
After dropping out of the University of Michigan-Flint (where he wrote for the student newspaper The Michigan Times) and working for a day at the General Motors plant, at 22 he founded the alternative weekly magazine The Flint Voice, which soon changed its name to The Michigan Voice as it expanded to cover the entire state, which Moore later regretted. In 1986, when Moore became the editor of Mother Jones, a liberal political magazine, he moved to California and The Michigan Voice was shut down. Moore stayed at the magazine for only a short while, before working for Ralph Nader.
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The messages displayed in Michael Moore’s “Its a wonderful world” montage bring into light the question of whether the United States should have the right to, in essence, police the world. This is not a newly created question, as shortly after the enduring success of the Iraq War became doubted, many had lasting emotional feelings as to whether the US can “meddle” in the affairs of other countries, and the debate carried over into the subsequent elections and has now permeated the critical arguments against the foreign policy of the Bush administration. Historically though, the US, and the world for that matter, has followed the established patterns of a pendulum in full swing, and perhaps the next administration to come to power will no longer take an active role in the preservation of US interests abroad, whether they be the preservation of human rights or the security of national natural resource reserves. It is nearly impossible to predict whether adopting the “isolationism” methodology of Washington will prove in the best interests of the US, but I will dare to predict what its impact will be around the world.
We are a species of extreme contradiction, a people laced with paradox, and that fact seems to define us far more readily than the alternative. Across the breadth of our history, the same neighbors we warred with last century have become this century’s economic allies. Those we live side by side with in one country we call enemies in others. The religion that drives one man to his knees in servitude is the heresy of another. Conflict exists in the same trailing moments as peace. The spinning, ignited filaments of our collective conscious can not be contained in a single line of pulsing life. We are beings of motion, we are not creatures of limit, always an unnatural fusion of many lives, many ideals. We seem to thrive on the defiance of natural law, the rejection of the balance and harmony instilled upon us by this world. It gives us our humanity. As much as we struggle and slaughter and convert, we do need each other. As much as the US’s interference in the world is debated, we do many good things. To remove that desire to bolster another’s spirit is to sin against our most basic instincts. We can not stop helping. It is as solid in our minds as the bedrock of this earth, and it must be preserved at all costs. So, no matter how much the nation changes this election year, hold on to that thought, cling, like the thirsty, high-mountain plant, to the folds of its logic, the pathos embedded in its message. It is our identity. It makes us whole.
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