![]() ![]() Ignorance leads to fascism, while knowledge and acknowledgement opens space for democracy. In this fictional film about revolution over fascism, the crisis of government is really a crisis of willful ignorance, of people purposely and consciously choosing the comfort of unknowing or ignoring blatant immorality in our leaders and government over the more difficult work of seeing, verifying, acknowledging, acting, atoning, reconciling, and creating a morally just, ethical government. ![]() But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgotten. If you’ve seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. At a pivotal moment in my favorite film, V for Vendetta, V addresses the whole of London, urging them to open their eyes to the immoral, corrupt, violent regime that calls itself the government: ![]()
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