ENJOY POVERTY--film by Renzo Martens



http://www.enjoypoverty.com/

everybody has already told me what it means---and what i think now is underwritten with my distrust of even what the word is "poverty."
the finger in the face of it----the quantification.
Aid orgs as the  commodifiers of suffering, the glamorizers, the mythmakers.
by parcellating and selling, how are aid orgs like carbon traders, chopping destruction into bite size packages for our viewing pleasure?

and then we take homeopathic doses of the horrors of colonialism, the history of exploitative means and earth crises, and promptly pay up for the reifying experience, without questioning the mechanisms of our guilt, preconceptions, generalizations, stereotypes.
and we stay militantly resistant to lifestyle change or too much knowledge.
desertification, famine, earth crisis, genocide, racism.
pay up, and ENJOY POVERTY, from a distance, or in your own mind.

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