30 - It's Not Your Fault (w/ Michael Moore & Meagan Day)
Hear the Bern
Bernie 2020
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Life under unfettered capitalism is tough, and in a thousand ways, big and small, mainstream figures tell us that our failures are our own, alone. Briahna talks to acclaimed filmmaker Michael Moore and Jacobin writer Meagan Day about why so many of our struggles result from the system in which we live - and how we can change it for the better.
Michael's site: https://michaelmoore.com/
Meagan's writing at Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/author/meagan-day
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| 0:00.0 | In perhaps the most memorable scene in the 1997 classic film Good Will Hunting, |
| 0:07.0 | a brilliant working-class janitor, played by Matt Damon, breaks down when told simply by his therapist. |
| 0:14.0 | It's not your fault. |
| 0:15.0 | Look at me, son. |
| 0:17.0 | It's not your fault. |
| 0:20.0 | I know. It's not your fault. I know. |
| 0:21.6 | It's not your fault. |
| 0:24.6 | I know. |
| 0:28.6 | No, no, no. |
| 0:29.6 | It's not your fault. |
| 0:32.6 | I think about that scene a lot these days, and not just because we're living through a period of 90s nostalgia. |
| 0:40.7 | I think about it because it exemplifies what I believe is happening on an emotional level to people who are connecting with the Bernie Sanders campaign. |
| 0:52.0 | You see, Bernie articulates more clearly than any other candidate that the problems facing |
| 0:57.8 | everyday Americans are not the result of laziness or a failure to work hard. |
| 1:03.7 | It's because systems have been rigged to benefit the rich at our expense. |
| 1:09.5 | Republicans and moderate Democrats for years have mythologized the quote-unquote |
| 1:14.6 | undeserving poor, cast working people as takers as opposed to makers, and pretended that good |
| 1:20.5 | outcomes were proof of merit, and that poor outcomes were deserved. |
| 1:25.4 | In psychology, this is called the just world fallacy. The idea that good |
| 1:29.9 | things happen to good people and bad things are deserved, it helps us to feel that the world |
| 1:34.1 | isn't so random and cruel. But it also helps disguise structural issues that are at the root of |
| 1:40.3 | so many problems that feel random, but aren't really. |
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