But the real irony is that even us disaffected counter-culture types play into the same game, painting a grim picture can calling it "realism". It's time we stopped contributing. Don't give your power to negative vibes.
Oh, and go see the movie if you have the chance.
You've lost me, Dave, where are the 'negative' vibes? Do you think that guys like Hugh Lovel who gives so much of his waking day to trying to teach other people how to re-create Eden in the 21st Century is negative?
I don't think Hugh's negative at all. I think he's issuing a wake up call. It's like the Ken Wilber example: once someone shows you where the 12 faces of the presidents are hidden in the drawing of a forest on your Big Boy's place mat, then you can see them all by yourself. They were right in front of your eyes the whole time, and yet your couldn't see them until someone pointed them out to you.
That's one of the short comings of good people, they can not imagine the extremes that bad people will go to. I think as long as so many people are comfortable refusing to look at the obvious and refusing to think the unthinkable, we're all headed for a very negative future.
Let's face it. The upper upper class no longer needs masses of people to support their lifestyle. Think about it. At one time large populations of people were a virtue, necessary for raw material extraction and hand and factory work to keep the rich rich and in fine things. Now masses of people represent a threat to the rulers of the rulers, machines of one sort or another can maintain their standard of living (or so they would think). Why tolerate your potential overthrowers when they can so easily be eliminated through their trust? Gulags or, more likely, GMO or nano-based population leveling plagues are easy to imagine in the very near future.
Hey, my OZ friends, do ostriches REALLY hide their heads in the sand? If they do, how successful of a ploy it is?
-Allan
