De Amerikaanse filmmaker Oliver Stone voelde zich geroepen om op 19 februari 2017 jonge filmmakers duidelijk te maken:
that you can be critical of your government and your society. You don’t have to fit in. It’s fashionable now to take shots at Republicans and Trump, and avoid the Obamas and Clintons. But remember this: in the thirteen wars we have started over the last thirty years, and the 14 trillion dollars we have spent, and the hundreds of thousands of lives that have perished from this earth, remember that it was not one leader, but a system, both Republican and Democrat. Call it what you will: the military industrial money media security complex. It’s a system that has been perpetuated under the guise that these are just wars, justifiable in the name of our flag that flies so proudly over our lives.
Stone benadrukte dat hoewel
we cannot justify our system as a center for the world’s values, we continue to create such wars and chaos in the world. No need to go through (onderzoeken. svh) the victims, we know we have intervened in more than 100 countries with invasions, regime change, economic chaos, or hired war, soft power. Whatever you want to call it, it’s war of some kind. In the end it has become a system leading to the death of this planet and the extinction of us all.
I have fought these people who practice war for most of my life. It’s a tiring game, and mostly you will get your ass kicked. With all the criticism and insults you will receive, and the flattery too, it is important to remember that if you believe in what you are saying and you can stay the course, you can make a difference. I urge you to find a way to remain alone with yourself, listen to your silences, not always in a writer’s room. Try to find not what the crowd wants so you can be successful, but try instead to find the true inner meaning of your life here on earth. And never give up on your heart in your struggle for peace, decency and telling the truth. Thank you.
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