Mario and Luigi
Italian Americans have a great history of reminding their fellow Americans that life is bigger than the mythical American Dream
I'd like to share with you the stories of American anarchist activists of a century past, but their memory has been so erased from American consciousness that the plethora of unfamiliar historical details and unrecognized names would take much of the punch out of the raw reality and importance of their cry for freedom.1
So for now, just a few short words from Mario and Luigi.
Mario
Luigi
“[unintelligible]… is completely out of touch, and an insult to the American People and their lived experience!”
If you haven't seen it yet, Ben Hecht's christmas gift poetry to the movie moguls who made him the highest paid film writer in Hollywood is a more literary cry of the same sort. The Machine is so dehumanizing that there are few human spirits still capable of noticing that they are trapped in a cage, even it be gilded.
Full piece on YouTube. Here's a 20 second clip.