Resistance is Phutile

Morlock Spurgan.

Watched Morgan Spurlock's "Thirty Days" programme last night, the one in which he sets out to survive on minimum wage for a month.It's a good documentary, and for the most part I appreciate what Spurlock (who, after a few drinks, I was calling Morlock Spurgan) is doing. Highlighting the issue of domestic poverty in the richest nation on Earth, and making a tidy little sum along the way? Nice one.

But there's where my contentious inner demon started growling. This guy could not believe the everyday complications a lack of money conjurs, because of course he's actually very well off, just pretending to be poor.

I know, that's the point. A real poor person doesn't notice it any more, it takes somebody exposing the faults of an aspect of society from the outside in to make people sit up and take notice.

Nonetheless, it was irritating to watch his disbelief that a day that was meant to be about having fun and celebrating disintegrated into argument and misery over the little matter of thirty dollars. To me, that's just standard living, a day like that can disintegrate over thirty pence!

posted by Phu @ 11:28 am