LOVE

I LOVE MICHAEL MOORE

The most significant reasons why I love Michael Moore are already all there, all mixed together. They lay in the symbols and even the archetypes people pick up to describe him. He’s been referred to as Steinbeck, Falstaff, a prophet, David against Goliath, the king’s jester, the Statue of Liberty, one of the presidents carved in Mount Rushmore.

Steinbeck stands for America’s deeply buried, long lost, but never forgotten socialist dream. He’s the one who wrote “The grapes of wrath”. I love Michael Moore for his anger and his “never say die”, “don’t take no for an answer” attitude.

Falstaff is Shakespeare’s symbol of free thinking, generous and merry individualism. I love Michael Moore for his “wake up”, “think for yourself” urge and message.

Prophets carry the words of God. I love Michael Moore because God has never been on the stinking rich and corrupt man’s side, but on the grieving, poor, dying for nothing little guy’s side.

David fought Goliath even though Goliath seemed so mighty and more powerful than him, because he knew righteousness would prevail over a mere show of strength. I love Michael Moore for speaking up the truth against tyranny, no matter how many libels, threats and apparent dangers he endures for that.

The king’s jester stands for the voice of reason in a buffoon’s clothes summoning the real but powerful fool. I love Michael Moore for supplying this Middle Ages well known antidote to tyranny, since we live under tyranny and in the Middle Ages.

The Statue of Liberty is the symbol of freedom. I love Michael Moore for being free of fear, free of hate, free of lies, free of greed, free of censorship, free of self-censorship. I love Michael Moore for being free.

Mount Rushmore is where the Presidents who served their country best go. I love Michael Moore for serving his country’s true ideals, and showing the real presidents their way back home.

I love Michael Moore for his dissent, his intelligence, his independence, his importance, the threat he represents to the Leviathan. I love Michael Moore because he’s great, big, FAT, and his enemies are mean, petty and starving… for enlightenment.

I love Michael Moore because he’s a good man.

There are still things left to say about Moore. For, unfortunately for his bashers, Moore’s greatest asset is that Moore is Moore. You can’t reduce him to archetypes, so great as they are, because Moore is to become an archetype unto himself. I’m talking about his downright originality. He’s popular without being a populist. He manages to be far left and very moderate at the same time. He manages to be both very moderate and uncompromising. He tells the truth by asking questions. He asks questions by telling the truth.

He’s a punk rocker who became mainstream and made the world listen to the reasons to destroy. He’s become as universal and influential as any fake puppet star, while carrying a powerful and important message, which hasn’t been seen since the Beatles. He’s a UFO in the world of arts, who, by mixing showmanship and intellect, humor and emotion, facts and opinions, gives a new meaning to the word “artist”, a renowned meaning to the artist’s mission, and a complex meaning to the word “truth”.

I love Michael Moore. Did I say because ?