’11 SLIFF BUZZ: Eco-Pirate

by Pier Marton | Nov 15, 2011 | Afri, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Food, France, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Ideas, Media, Middle-East, Politics, Sci/Nat, Spectacle, Theater, Travel, Wars

My short review:
Eco-Pirate: Paul Watson saw the clubbing of a baby seal at age 11 (cf. below) and his life seems like a heroic effort to stop ANY further killing from happening. He has stood in harpoon’s way to defend whales and his actions challenge most “well intentioned people.” As he puts it himself, if someone is getting raped you don’t stand by with a placard protesting. The oceans are dying and Paul Watson is doing something about it. —>A+

The film’s website & Sea Shepherd’s website.

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus