Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers (2003) Full

Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is an award winning Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg.

It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and argues that these are not being fulfilled, and they never will be.

The film is about our world, the modern civilisation that eats more than needed. It's not very much information that is physicly showed, its the pictures in symbios with music that is the real strength in this flick.

The film leans towards anarcho-primitivist ideology and argues for a simple and fulfilling life.

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[Hendar23]

You're all under arrest for Thought Crime.

[Edward Black]

Interesting.

John Zerzan is extremely interesting.

His books are well worth reading. Along with Derrick Jensen.

We certainly are destroying the planet. And ourselves in the process.

Not to mention all other life forms.

[ForHeShallSave]

Now, for those who don't like to 'follow' others examples I'd simply add that their worldview of themselves was only given to them through their translation of other people's views towards them. You'll never emancipate yourself above your peers because you 'are' your peers.

Apply this lesson universally, everyone as an aspect of your experience, your ego. Taken in this context, the only violence you can commit is against yourself, an act of utter insanity.

[ForHeShallSave]

We could simply apply Mills idea of liberty and freedom with Kants theory of universal morality and people would simply stop.

They'd probaby have a micro-breakdown first. The emancipation of a singular ego, possesion of one's own body-vehicle, has turned, I think, the world into a selfish slave state. You see kinds of 'self-murder' daily, the people who can't agree with themselves about the most basic moral actions, and through their conflict seek to control others. The world as their item.

[dwarreI]

Probably not my personal life, but yes, I think life in general would improve.

[maya0mex]

This tells it like it is. Some ppl just cant handle the truth.

[cspj12]

thats a fine emotion-based stance to take, in line with the overall gist of the film. But a balance between conservation and economy is inevitable. Do you think that your life would improve if all capitalistic goods and services stopped being offered tomorrow?

[dwarreI]

You are right cspj12, since the technological revolution the efficiency of destroying the planet has significantly improved!

[cspj12]

this documentary doesn't seem very coherent. There's little evidence here that technology doesn't improve efficiency. Am i wrong?

[cspj12]

8:50: "i don't think there's anyone who seriously imbraces it". That tells me that this guy is really out of touch. Lots of people totally embrace it. wtf is he talking about?

[Antonio Augusto Paganelli Pinto]

I don`t know. I think it is really awesome to place an ad before this one.

[Patrick Ernest]

The truth is that humanity is not responsible for destroying the planet, or anything else. The fiction of responsibility and the resultant guilt is one of the major mechanisms that keep the real problem from being addressed. For more information, see (htt<p://lodown.net/wiki/index­.php?n=Category.ExistentialSha­me) and related pages