Wall-E...the sad future of human kind

I'm uploading this video to make a point about the dangers for human kind, if we become addicted and cover all our needs, through the internet. This started from a discussion, about e-learning in my university class, and how education would lose it's very important role to socialize people, but it's also a lesson for human kind.

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Education

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• wall
• walle
• wall-e
• future
• human
• kind
• internet
• abuse

[Euterpe416]

Project Glass, anyone?

[PrettyRubbish]

Wow, and the worst part is... there are people right now, in the present who want life to be like this. Its already beginning. I for one, enjoy being able to move.

[EddieHawkinsII]

@EddieHawkinsII Forgot this: through that statement in his first scene, you see that he is not lazy and wants to do more but is stymied by the complete automation of the ship.

[EddieHawkinsII]

@Raguleader Theyre also not lazy, really. Just unchallenged. Just look at Captain McCrea. In his first scene, he expresses his frustration that the only thing he ever really does on the Axiom is the morning announcements. Through EVE, WALL-E, and the plant, he becomes determined to go back home, eventually overcoming the challenge of Auto and directive A113.

[IllChrisBrownYou]

Honda just invented the first step towards this... thats sad

[WlEDERGEBURT]

LOL

[IncrediblyRacist]

It's "Idiocracy" in cartoon format. Same message. Stop being lazy lard ass retards.

[IncrediblyRacist]

You wanna be a big lard ass in an electric chair?

[Krypton88]

Anyone seen that new invention by Honda? Its like a segway…only you're sitting down.

So yeah, they've now created a device where you can now "walk" from place to place while sitting on your ass.

The future in Wall-E doesn't seem that far off now...

[GuardianOfNonE]

Honestly, I say forget about any "messages" or "themes" this movie is sending, and just take it as what it is: a phenomenally original story, with a phenomenally original method of storytelling. Andrew Stanton (the director) himself has said that the movie isn't meant to be a promotion of any particular moral. It's just a great story. Which I could watch over and over.

[dROUFrank]

If the movie had no "message" there would be no profits because no one wants to see a movie that has nothing to say to an audience. It just so happens that today's audience (many of them) is really self-conscious about being unhealthy and technologised and alienated, so we like to tell ourselves that we are and congratulate ourselves on noticing that we are. By fictionalising our self-awareness into the "future", we get to forget temporarily how uncomfortable our self-awareness really is.

[dROUFrank]

But there is no "future" here for there to exist a "parallel". It's just a movie which was written by people living in the present and as such it's about the present. It's the movie-makers talking to the audience about what they think the audience wants to hear. The "futuristic" setting of the movie is just a fictionalisation of the subject, and all fiction is disavowal. It lets them invent pretend distance from what they're describing. It dissimulates our self-awareness about this stuff.