Asking ‘Why?’ on Sony’s ‘The Interview’ film
My god, we’ve certainly had our fill of articles on the Sony film and they all have in common their radical opinions. Even Barack Obama chimed in with a badly timed and poorly thought-out statement that the hacking would not go unpunished. Early pundits pointed their well-sharpened fingers at North Korea, although that appears to be increasingly suspect.
I’ve seen nothing on the ‘why?’ behind all this uproar.
Seth Godin, a man for whom I have enormous respect, noted in a recent email (unrelated to this particular controversy);
“If we keep asking why all the way to the beginning of the thread, we might come to understand how it is that this is the way we do things around here. And then realize that we might come out ahead if we care enough to change it.”
‘Around here’ was no doubt meant as a reference to corporate culture, but the question is as broad as the Mississippi and worldwide. Why indeed? In the Sony matter, it strikes me that writing, producing and airing a film that makes comedy …