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"We are rapidly becoming the all-star cast of the biggest disaster movie of all
time, and tragically it’s a global success. Towering infernos blaze over
Canada, the Canaries and Rhodes, Bangladesh, China and even northern England
have had their own devastating Poseidon adventures while the whole world
continues to reel in the socioeconomic chaos of the Covid contagion and in fear
of an H1N1 outbreak. Only the dramatic effects are no longer
computer-generated, they are real, and people are really dying.
I went to the Odeon in the 1970s and was terrified and wowed by the disaster
film genre. Since the late 1980s I’ve been watching the real world’s climate
effects department ramp up its protests to our wholesale inactivity and
disregard for the science that says, with increasing accuracy, that humanity is
facing Armageddon. But there’s been another competing genre, the
conspiracy/disinformation movie, the creepy corrupt B-movies released, not by
Hollywood, but by big oil, not X-rated at the multiplex but woven insidiously
into our lives as extras in this catastrophe… and the repeats, re-streams,
re-runs orchestrated by those fuelling the flames.
So it’s time to rebel, or just moan and die: that’s your choice. The best
rebels rely on good intel and need a secure base founded on the facts, so I
suggest before you climb aboard your TIE fighters you watch and digest the
following films. Because for all its frippery and Marvellous nonsense, some
more valuable parts of the movie industry are trying to tell us the truth."
I have seen many of these and agree with the recommendations.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
