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I talk with Chomsky a lot about this. He actually understands very well what is going on. In our book, I told my story, about how brainwashed I was, as a child, by pro-Western, pro-imperialist radio and television stations. And of course, not only me: everyone is in danger, in Syria and Iran, in China and Russia, all over Latin America.
Therefore, we have to unite, we have to double our efforts and do all we can to tell our side of the story.
And we have to intertwine our efforts. Like this interview:
I love it. My Indian brother and I, a Soviet internationalist educated on Cuban
thoughts, exchanging ideas! Publicly and frankly.
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BM: Climate Change and Resource Crisis are driving the world
towards collapse. Do you think that the world can still be saved? What're
your suggestions?
AV: It can be saved, but again, only if imperialism and neo-colonialism are destroyed.
The best example is Indonesia and the film that I am making, about destruction of Borneo Island. In the West, people in order to feel good, turn off every light when they leave the room, they turn off water. But their companies are plundering what is left of the native tropical forest, they are flattening entire mountains.
Because of Western over-production and over-consumption, entire island-nations in Oceania are becoming uninhabitable.
What is needed is to re-think entire 'world order'. Do we really need economic growth? Or should it all be about re-distribution.
Comes China! Despite what people are told to believe, (again,
by the Western propaganda outlets), China is at the forefront of struggle for
so-called "Ecological Civilization". I know a lot about it, because I am working
with a great Whiteheadean philosopher John Cobb Jr., who has enormous influence
on the Chinese leadership, including their landmark decision to engrave
ecological civilization into the constitution. We are currently writing a book
on the subject, together. China is intentionally slowing down its economic
growth, it is returning back to its traditional wisdom, and it has also managed
to reverse migration from the countryside to the cities, by greatly improving the
rural life. The book will be available in less than one month.
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BM: Are you happy?
AV: Yes. Insanely. Even when I am fxxxxd and hardly able to move.
I am a fighter. I am an internationalist, a Communist. We are winning. Slowly, very slowly, but winning.
The journey is tough, it is dangerous. But I don't want any other journey, or any other fate.
My life is not perfect, but I would never trade. I do my best. And I love it the way it is.
And I love stories. Without good stories, there is no life. Along the journey, the road, there are millions of stories. They define and illustrate our human kind. Based on these stories, there is great revolutionary struggle, igniting our planet once again.
Imperialists want us to forget about the stories. They want us to live on pre-fabricated junk stories of Hollywood and Disney. It is our duty to tell the real stories, because they are much more beautiful than computer-generated ones, and they are true.
That's why I create, write, and film. No stories, no revolution!
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