Journal
Some notes from a research trip to Mexico
Some of Marc’s notes from books (apologies for not quoting sources!), conversations and observations. Thanks to everyone whom i spoke or spent time with! (Photo by Dean Knuth).
We are complicit in a system that privileges the lives of some over others, ultimately denying the very humanity of millions - we can’t point to a ‘poverty Hitler’ or a ‘poverty Pinochet’ and just blame them as individuals.
What i have come to learn in the research so far, and therefore what i would like to come out in the film, is that we yearn for more meaningful experiences in life.
We are often mobilised by both fear and pleasure. Fear means we will defend our ways of belief, our systems,…