you ignore it until you can't anymore
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I got a ''low air quality'' alert on my phone. I live in the middle of nowhere. But I can't see the mountains from all the ash in the sky. This is no longer novel to me.
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I assumed it was covid at first, but then I realised how long it takes to make a movie and it came out too soon... It was just that accurate.
Funny how a lot of criticism was about how it was "too on the nose", but really, it still seems to have gone over people's heads
I don't get that criticism. Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful. I mean look at Bong Joon-Ho's movies. They are all extremely on the nose. It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity
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I assumed it was covid at first, but then I realised how long it takes to make a movie and it came out too soon... It was just that accurate.
Funny how a lot of criticism was about how it was "too on the nose", but really, it still seems to have gone over people's heads
The ending is what really got me.
They all just sat down and kept trying to live life the way they always had, like going back and making everything the way it was just for a little while was all they could do in the face of obliteration.
I don't know about anyone else, but the way that scene is drawn out, as the viewer, I was just expecting some deus ex machina shit to happen, like a volcano would divert the shockwave, or they would survive under the rubble, or the whole thing was a fever dream... And they all just get obliterated by the disaster they all knew was coming and no longer preventable. It's how I feel living in a house with AC, and having two cars in the driveway. I'm contributing to the climate crisis, but as an individual, I have zero impact in what is happening. The people with the power to cut back and actually make an impact on the climate won't, because they only have that power though greed above everything else.
Anyway, sorry if you're depressed after reading it. When we hit +1.5C, all the cool people can come over to my house for a nice dinner before the food supply collapses and the famine sets in.
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I don't get that criticism. Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful. I mean look at Bong Joon-Ho's movies. They are all extremely on the nose. It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity
Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful
Right, but it can also be obnoxious to beat over the head with the same concept over and over. ]
It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity
I don't know why you ascribe smugness to it, someone that watches movies for a living is obviously gonna prefer films that don't waste time telling the audience something more than necessary.
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If they posted the temperature in Farenheit maybe they could get Americans on board
Yes, but even in the US I can recognize that 50°C is literally halfway to boiling (from freezing).
... You're right though, it still took longer to get an intuitive sense than 122°F would have.
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It's not about intelligence, it's about mass manipulation starting from the youngest age. Intelligence isn't an inherent trait, it is taught. And the system has been perfected to ingrain fear and ignorance or apathy and tiredness in our minds.
It's not about the species being "stupid", that narrative is part of the poison that manipulates us, and is ultimately, an incredibly stupid thing
If I put my hand on a stove. It hurts. I learn not to do that again.
If I live in a region that has been controlled by a specific party for generations and life sucks, and I keep voting for that party, then I'm stupid.
If I'm suffering the effects of global warming after professionals have spent decades telling me it was happening, and I choose to continue ignoring it, I'm stupid.
You're trying to absolve ADULTS from the responsibility of self-education. Of learning from experience.
There's a lot of misinformation out there. But adults shouldn't be waiting for someone to tell them what to think. It's their responsibility to learn from obvious mistakes. There are plenty of people in history that have left organized religion because they learned, through experience, that it was bullshit. That means anyone that isn't willfully ignorant can do the same.
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"ignore it until you can't anymore"
Lol. A few years ago we watched conservatives ignore COVID until they were literally dead.
So they ignored it until they couldn't anymore.
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"It's only going to get worse."
That's the theme going forward for humanity. The older I get, the more I realize humans just aren't intelligent enough, as a whole, to adapt to a world changing at an ever increasing rate, requiring a larger percentage of humanity to work in unison to accomplish goals.
It's looking more and more like we're a failed experiment.
Our selfish survival instincts that allowed us to get to where we are now will also be our downfall.
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I'm surprised there has been so little ecoterrorism in response to climate change.
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Nah but we're getting rid of the NASA satellites that monitor this so we won't see climate change anymore
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The ending is what really got me.
They all just sat down and kept trying to live life the way they always had, like going back and making everything the way it was just for a little while was all they could do in the face of obliteration.
I don't know about anyone else, but the way that scene is drawn out, as the viewer, I was just expecting some deus ex machina shit to happen, like a volcano would divert the shockwave, or they would survive under the rubble, or the whole thing was a fever dream... And they all just get obliterated by the disaster they all knew was coming and no longer preventable. It's how I feel living in a house with AC, and having two cars in the driveway. I'm contributing to the climate crisis, but as an individual, I have zero impact in what is happening. The people with the power to cut back and actually make an impact on the climate won't, because they only have that power though greed above everything else.
Anyway, sorry if you're depressed after reading it. When we hit +1.5C, all the cool people can come over to my house for a nice dinner before the food supply collapses and the famine sets in.
If that's your attitude, why are you waiting until later to open your home, share meals, or lend your car to people?
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So they ignored it until they couldn't anymore.
No, brother. The dead ignore everything. Not even the death of our sun will wake them.
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No, brother. The dead ignore everything. Not even the death of our sun will wake them.
Ignoring something requires intent.
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I'm not implying we shouldn't try. I'm advocating a realistic view of the situation. Too many have their heads in the sand.
No I know, I agree with you. I just feel compelled to make that statement because without it people might be more complicit in the destruction of their world after reading yours.
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I'm surprised there has been so little ecoterrorism in response to climate change.
I was expecting some kind of analog to the terrorist groups of the 70s in Europe for sure. But all the violence is coming from the other side.
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Ignoring something requires intent.
Does a mountain ignoring a man mean that the mountain has the capacity to take notice?
Ignorance is simply entropy by another name. Information is energy, and ignorance is the absence.
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"ignore it until you can't anymore"
Lol. A few years ago we watched conservatives ignore COVID until they were literally dead.
I was sure that would decimate their voter base, between those who died and those who were left to see the fall out.
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I believe in man made climate change, just not from burning fossil fuels. Now let me tell you about the promise of geoengineering...
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Eh, at this point can we just agree that word doesn't apply to people with actual disabilities? It hasn't been used as such for decades. Maybe we just agree to only use it to refer to morons, the same way "moron" was once a medical term.
Didn't the words moron and imbecile follow along a similar line of etymological evolution that the r-word went through? Yet imbecile and moron are considered acceptable offensive words to use. To be honest it's why I don't really care that much about the r-word itself.
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If that's your attitude, why are you waiting until later to open your home, share meals, or lend your car to people?
Theft, money, insurance.
I wanna change the world, but I still have to live in it first.
