District 9 in We are the Poors
Trenutek, da se posipam s pepelom; ob prvem ogledu novega holywoodskega blockbusterja mi ni “potegnilo”; kako nisem povezal filma in knjige (We are the Poors), ki sem jo prebral skoraj nedavno, si skoraj ne znam razložiti.
Movie shows shacks for aliens, where many blacks still live 15 years after apartheid. Globalpost
Bingo!
Svet je po koncu apartheida prenehal gledati na Južno Afriko; zaključek je bil ravno pravi, da je vest ostala čista, saj je pravica zmagala. Nova Južna Afrika se je sončila s tekmovanj za izbor miss sveta, ob tem pa je svet spregledal, da se je rasna ločnica premaknila na razredno. Novi vladarji – slavni Afriški nacionalni kongres – so po metodi šok terapije v uničeno družbo vrgli eno najhujših oblik neusmiljenega neoliberalizma (privatizacija, prosta trgovina, deregulacija)… Posledice:
And David McDonald and James Kilgore (writing as John Pape) have shown that in the post-apartheid era up to 10 million South Africans have been disconnected from water; the same number have been disconnected from electricity; a further 2 million people have been evicted from their homes and 1.5 million have had their property seized for failure to pay their water and electricity bills. McDonald and Kilgore have also found that the majority could not pay their water and electricity bills, that many of those who do pay do so at the expense of things like school fees and health care and so the idea of a `culture of non-payment’ should be seen as, at best, a myth. They also show that none of this is necessary and that this assault on the poor it is a direct consequence of the shift away from policies based on the principle of cross-subsidisation to ensure sustainable access to services by poorer citizens and towards policies that aim to generate profit by recovering the full cost of the services provided to each customer, including installation costs. The rich had the installation of their basic services subsidised by apartheid many years ago and so what the World Bank calls `good public fiscal practice’ means that electricity costs 30% more in Soweto than in Sandton and schools in poor communities in Durban have their water disconnected in the midst of cholera epidemic. Amazon
District 9 – prostor, kamor spravimo naše “vesoljce”; takšne in drugačne.