Moore goes to Akihabara

Michael Moore goes to Akihabara

MM went to Japan and a news station gave him a tour around Akihabara.

He had this to say:

"Lots of unnecessary things are being sold here."

"Shopping may brighten the spirits, but they're just fooling themselves."

When Moore visited a maid cafe and got the standard "Welcome master" greeting from the maids, Moore replied, "I'm not your master! Everybody's equal."


I liked Roger&Me and Stupid White Men, but since then MM's getting a little tired, going too much to the left (as in extreme) becoming more like the liberal answer to pundits like Hannity, or in other words, becoming irrational.

The maid cafe episode, well it seems to me that ol' boy michael doesnt quite get roleplay. And the fact that luring nerds is way easier than say getting into a mickey mouse costume in florida during summer just so kids can take a photo with you, then kick you in the balls, all for minimum wage.



Here's the link

 

Oy. He must be a lot of fun to spend the day with

"Welcome to Burger King, home of the Whopper, can I take your order?"
"I highly contest that assertion. This piece of property is zoned commercial, so it can't legally serve as "home" to anyone. Let alone an inanimate object such as a Whopper. Why, the very notion is absurd!"
"Look buddy, do you want a burger or not?"

 

maoroflol..right now, I'm speechless :lol:

 

Michael Moore is a Fat idiotic pig and enemy of all who love freedom.

Now he's dissin the Maids.....OFF WITH HIS FAT ASS.......

 

for the non-japanese understanders:

http://kotaku.com/5428562/michael-moore-not-so-impressed-with-akihabara

http://www.japanprobe.com/2009/12/14/michael-moore-visits-a-maid-cafe-in-akihabara/

 

I'm surprised he fit through their doors.

 

Haha that does make it out as if Moore is an unwanted busy body. Which he kind of is.

 

I think it's even on his business cards.

 

I swear to god, watching to videos makes me laugh.

"Come to America", he says and everybody laughs lol.

 

Did they crucify him? That'd be awesome if they did

 

Wow, just a little extreme, don't you think? He's just a guy expressing his opinion, I don't really see how that makes him an enemy of freedom.

There is however those within the environmental movement who see the manufacture of commercial goods as the root of all evil - these are the people who are constantly telling us all that we don't need "things," and that we spend too much time and energy on the procurement of "Stuff."

To some extent, these people have a point - a lot of the crap we buy is unnecessary, or at least it's packaged in a lot of unnecessary packaging. Think about all the paper, plastic wrap, celophane, etc that everything you've ever bought has come in. To us, we just open the CD/Candybar/video game or whatever, throw the packaging away, and forget about it. But every piece of packaging you've ever touched is still out there somewhere in a landfill.

However these people fail to see the point that the manufacture of commercial goods is what makes the world go around. What else are you gonna make? Bullets? Bombs? Air craft carriers? Wouldn't you rather manufacture pots and pans and DVDs and comic books and crap than nuclear missiles or stealth bombers?

So anyway, I can agree with the need to make things biodegradeable, and to reduce pollution in all ways, but I really see nothing wrong with the procurement of "stuff" as a necessary engine that drives our society. Much better than say, basing your entire gross domestic product to the manufacture of weapons like we seem to have now in this country.

</rant>

 

I think the fact that moore is a millionaire thanks to selling tons and tons of not actually essential stuff (would you die if you dont see a documentary?) when he could just give it away -books are made of dead trees, better go digital- for free, pretty much invalidates anything he can say against consumerism

 

sure. moore goes to japan and get crucified. the chances for such a happening are..let's say.. relatively very very low.

 

What if they mistake him for Santa? 'Tis the season and all that.

 

I can't stand Michael Moore is all.

 

Oh, don't forget electricity!


I'm not surprised by his statements. He needs to understand that Japan is awesome because Japan is awesome. It has nothing to do with him. Japan is Japan is Japan, moreso than one would think.

'Bitch would probably go to Mars and say "THIS SHIT IS REDDER THAN I THOUGHT. DAMNIT. SOMEONE GET ME SOME WATER. WHAT? WHAT!!?!?!?"

 

He would like Mars being red...goes with his political stance

 

THIS.

THe guy is anti-consumerism so much but at the start of all his movies "THIS DVD IS FOR SALE ONLY"

 

Indeed, specially considering there's a lot of documentaries released for free