VL-IV: Chap 9- Close-ups

[Mark Kohut]

Michael writes:

"what is real committed action, and how could they have done better?
What are we to compare them to?
What should they have done differently?"

As with Laura's arguments, these are good ones...Tentatively I might say this:

If Vineland were the America we were once "promised" or that it could be,
it might be because its citizens were engaged in making it so.

That American citizenship is active engagement in making America just.

As I mentioned, working with Cesar Chavez re the farmworkers for example, not
just filming them. Maybe Food Co-ops rather than film Co-ops would be where
'real committed action' lay?

 Fighting such as Vond, of course, rather than falling for him.