Surplus - Terrorized into Being Consumers (10of10)

With subtitles in English.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• globalization
• capitalism
• consumerism
• property
• damage
• destruction
• zerzan
• green
• anarchy
• anarchism
• primitivism

[Charredmonolith]

im not going to add any educated comment, or talk shit about someone elses, but thank you so much for adding this video to youtube.

[0murdock0]

This is Anarcho-primitivism, not simply socialism. This video is wrong in portraying technology as being the fundamental flaw of modern society, and the question is no longer about U.S. vs Cuba. Scott, good luck with the free market when cyberneted artificial intelligence has a higher success rate in heart surgery, which will happen. Show me where the jobs will be when YOU are inferior in every job sector. Convince me the monetary system can survive this.

[Eliashedlund]

i watched this in school like... 3 years ago? ...and i've just watched it during my free time. this has never happened before.

I wanted to watch it again. because it's a message worth thinking about in this documentary. This is incredibly wellmade, making me want to come back and listen to it's message again.

The message itself is... well... i agree with most of it. It's a message that's worth to think about.

It's the truth.

[supremecommanderable]

I have a game called supreme commander forged alliance. If you play the game with computer players who are you're allies and without enemies, you know what the computer does? It keeps on building, growing, consuming. Just like us. And when it has build to the max, it just starts nuking itself, it just destroys itself and starts building again. I know this is just a simple computer, but if even an computer thinks that the only way to sustain growth is selfdestruction then what choice do we have?

[jxhensley]

what juvenile shit

[tonyfalca]

Brilliant documentary! I remember watching this a while ago, and I'm glad I have again. There's not much media out there on anti-capitalistic, or anti-materialistic, values. Hopefully this video will cause people to question, just what are we really doing? I think chimps are still smarter than humans..

[ElThrash1]

@scottoknows Less government is still government. If we keep on using a monetary system Government (even if very small) Will start to get corrupt we've seen it THOUSANDS of times through history. The smallest form of government is a dictatorship and well... It doesn't work... Nothing that comes in contact with money has worked or will ever work. And you can just look back at humanity's history and search for the common denominator. The problem lies within the use of money not governments...

[ElThrash1]

Well I'm all for the zeitgeist movement and a Resource based economy. You see, I like to move forwards not backwards. But hey! If you want to live in the stone age you can do it now!! You just need something around 14 people and a little space in a forest! You don't need humanity to follow your dream for you to achieve it! Do it!!! =)

[Ez58671]

This documentary could've been half as long as it is in this format. Some things need repeating to drive home a point. Not everything. Overall, it presents a few different perspectives with a basic message that consumerism is out of control in the 1st world, which is only made possible by the exploitation of the other 80% of humanity. But I feel that the message's strength is weakened by the formatting and production. Just my personal opinion.

[minamur]

@17secret it doesn't matter how many people are working on a problem if the problem is impossible. how many tried to find the way to square the circle before it was proved impossible?

i didn't say no clean energy whatsoever, just no clean energy for transport. but that's beside the point. it isn't a problem to be solved. it's a limitation that should be embraced, because it allows our civilization to only grow so large before it implodes like every other civilization that has ever been.

[17secret]

@minamur no clean energy? only dirty fossil fuels until there is no more?

well, if no brain among 7 billions crawling on earth comes up with a solution before it happens, then we deserve to disappear.

[minamur]

@17secret we don't have any clean sources of energy to move resources around to all the little utopias across the world, in your vision. we'd still have to extract fossil fuels as fast as we can, until we can't, at which point the whole system falls apart.

that is to say, your vision for the world is no different from the world we live in. carrying capacity has nothing to do with the density of a population over a given area.