While I am by no means an unadulterated fan of Christopher Nolan’s version of Homer’s Odyssey, I confess to some mordant amusement when I read Amy Goodman’s complaint that part of the film was made in Moroccan-occupied Sahara.
I’m sure that Ms Goodman is also aware that hundreds of Spanish-speaking people in in what was formerly Boyle Heights and Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles, were dispossessed and displaced (to where??) in order to build Dodger Stadium.
Or that most of the United States and its citizens occupy what was originally Native American territory.
Or that Spanish conquistadors built their cathedrals atop Aztec and Mayan pyramids.
Or that Robert Moses didn’t level the Gowandus and later Treemont neighborhood in the Bronx (where my mom grew up), in order to build one of his endless, traffic-congested, freeways.
I’m betting there’s a million more examples in which the needs of the many (usually white) are judged to outweigh the needs of the fewer. (Usually poorer).
How did they build those Egyptian pyramids?
Does that make it right?
Of course not. But it does make it common. For millennia. (I am not here referring to Mrs. Trump).
Every human “achievement” turns out to have been built on the backs - or bones - of others.
I am not, as I said, an unadulterated fan of the new Odyssey film - but I understand how the world works. And is likely always to work.
The reality of making an omelet is painful but true.