This documentary on Howard Zinn looks closely on his
views on the impoverished, the working class, those in power, society worldwide,
and the affect that the opinions of these people has on helping the world move forward. He is a
major spokesperson for literature and history. For without these two
components, people would be naïve to the past, present, and future. “If you don’t
know history, it’s as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born
yesterday, then anybody up there in a position of power can tell you anything.”
There will always be conflicts, issues, concerns, problems, and differences in
views and opinions. It is vital, therefore, to have a standpoint in it all. People
must believe and fight for those beliefs, otherwise change would never be
possible. Being neutral is not an option and, in actuality, does not exist. “To
be neutral is simply to collaborate with whatever is going on.” Whether it is
war, education, environment, employment, scientific, racial, gender, or
whatever the social issue may be, it is up to all people of all kinds and class
to have an opinion in order to push through the struggle and achieve justice.
These views need to be pressed worldwide. Most people, especially today’s
youth, believe that if they are uninvolved, unopinionated, and unconcerned with
everything that is going on around them that they are not affecting the world
one way other the other. Though they know they are not helping matters, what they don’t know is that they are actually hurting and making matters worse. More
than this, if everyone decided to pay no attention to their surroundings, go
with the flow, and just listen and agree to whatever they are told by authority
figures, not only would society as a whole suffer, but people as individuals
would cease to flourish and grow as human beings. When it comes to us as people and the world we
live in, ignorance is not bliss.
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