If you think about it, the short-form documentary has never enjoyed so much power and required less skill and credentials to achieve a wide audience. In that way, the format almost resembles a cruel dictator whose downfall is met by increased knowledge and power. A cruel dictator that would make a good subject for a short-form documentary. A documentary that seems really important and everyone feels morally empowered watching, but results in its "dehydrated" maker passed out naked in front of Sea World blaming all of the new-found Likes for his demise. Perhaps the form itself is what is becoming tiny, needy, emotionally manipulative, and unable to handle power. Perhaps we are led to wonder what the intentions behind a conversation of terrible suffering on the other side of the world, a probable cocaine and alcohol binge in San Diego, and a "click to share" with lots of back-patting comments of concern actually have in common.
Yes, I will answer my own question: attention, power, personal success disguised with human morality. Oh, and Facebook. At the end of the day, is the overriding morality of the Internet 2.0 about putting money in all the specific places ts most needed and not considering how it got there? Isn't that cynical way of thinking consistent with all the rich-people shit that liberal secular humanists hate. Trust me. In this day of doing right no matter what the reasons, and of asking for handouts to coincide your personal success with your ever-important charitable cause, if you can't handle fucking kickstarter money, you wouldn't be able to handle billions of dollars or weapons or power either. We all basically behave the same way in the grips of these things.
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