Karen: Do you suppose Michael Moore is channeling Ned Ludd, the folk-hero of those who participated in machine-breaking riots in the early 1800s, and who gave the name “Luddite” to those who opposed technological change? A song – titled “Ned Ludd” – was written about this man in 1985:
“They said Ned Ludd was an idiot boy
That all he could do was wreck and destroy, and
He turned to his workmates and said: Death to Machines
They tread on our future and they stamp on our dreams.”
It is not surprising that Moore has become the minstrel of Michigan, one of the centers of the “rustbelt” that will surely metastasize in direct correlation to the expansion of his thinking.
