Re: Have you seen Don't Look Up?
Reg
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I did see it. I started out laughing and then it became like watching a replay of our pandemic situation. This made it somewhat unpleasant to get through. I know that it is supposed to be about the climate crisis but to me I kept seeing it as being about the pandemic. Although now with this Thwaites glacier situation I guess we could have that global catastrophic situation in just ten years. Mick and the shire better be good swimmers because they would be underwater. A sudden 10 foot rise in ocean levels will be a world changing disaster. The sad part is with human beings, that's probably what it will take before they get it. It has to be too late, then they understand it.
I would recommend Paul Schrader's The Card Counter because I think it also speaks to our present situation if in more subtle ways. It goes at the idea that when these horrendous acts are committed generally the people that get punished are not the people that ran the show. There are a bunch of little guys that get thrown under the bus...or in jail...while the ringleaders walk. Just like in the Capitol insurrection only here they are using the torture prisons we set-up after 9/11 as the example. However, same deal, a bunch of little guys pay the price in so many ways, people are radicalized, the people really responsible walk.
Of course Schrader takes this to some interesting places.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
Reg
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I did see it. I started out laughing and then it became like watching a replay of our pandemic situation. This made it somewhat unpleasant to get through. I know that it is supposed to be about the climate crisis but to me I kept seeing it as being about the pandemic. Although now with this Thwaites glacier situation I guess we could have that global catastrophic situation in just ten years. Mick and the shire better be good swimmers because they would be underwater. A sudden 10 foot rise in ocean levels will be a world changing disaster. The sad part is with human beings, that's probably what it will take before they get it. It has to be too late, then they understand it.
I would recommend Paul Schrader's The Card Counter because I think it also speaks to our present situation if in more subtle ways. It goes at the idea that when these horrendous acts are committed generally the people that get punished are not the people that ran the show. There are a bunch of little guys that get thrown under the bus...or in jail...while the ringleaders walk. Just like in the Capitol insurrection only here they are using the torture prisons we set-up after 9/11 as the example. However, same deal, a bunch of little guys pay the price in so many ways, people are radicalized, the people really responsible walk.
Of course Schrader takes this to some interesting places.
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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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