Then why put up the speech at all if you don't want people commenting on it.

Here’s a recent quote that I found: ‘We do not talk, we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.’ That was actually written in 1945 by Henry Miller and I think it’s timely. I think what it says is that the world has been on its present course for a long time. People all over the world spend countless hours of their lives every week being fed entertainment in the form of movies, TV shows, newspapers, YouTube videos and the internet. And it’s ludicrous to believe that this stuff doesn’t alter our brains.

It’s also equally ludicrous to believe that – at the very least – this mass distraction and manipulation is not convenient for the people who are in charge. People are starving. They may not know it because they’re being fed mass produced garbage. The packaging is colourful and loud, but it’s produced in the same factories that make Pop Tarts and iPads, by people sitting around thinking, ‘What can we do to get people to buy more of these?’

And they’re very good at their jobs. But that’s what it is you’re getting, because that’s what they’re making. They’re selling you something. And the world is built on this now. Politics and government are built on this, corporations are built on this. Interpersonal relationships are built on this. And we’re starving, all of us, and we’re killing each other, and we’re hating each other, and we’re calling each other liars and evil because it’s all become marketing and we want to win because we’re lonely and empty and scared and we’re led to believe winning will change all that. But there is no winning.

Bloody hell, have you read this garbage? "The evil THEM are feeding us crap TV turning us into mindless drones!". Attention needs to be earned, and this is trash. If a 15 year old said this I'd say "it's good you're getting interested in politics, but everything's not that simple", if it's coming out the mouth of a 58 year old, not only is it incredibly worrying, it also just pathetic.

The rest of the text, his feeling towards screenwriting and storytelling being a sort of exploration is infinitely more interesting, but rather than being the crux of the speech, it just seems to be afiller out for his pathetic conspiratorial ramblings.

I'm very sorry for fans of Kaufman, and he is a great director and screenwriter, but this speech is filled with nonsense. It's the worldview of a teenager, not wanting to acknowledge the complexities of the world but instead seek a great big "other" to blame all his problems on.

Shame on you /r/truefilm for upvoting this garbage, what the hell is this?