The Crisis of Civilization

documentary

A lot of effort went into this production...many old clips, animation, etc...but it may have tried to tackle too large a topic with too many complex facets to give any of them adequate exposure. It covered peak oil, energy in general, climate change, food and soil depletion, banking, militarization, international terror, loss of civil liberties...

Any one of these could easily fill a movie...even then not fully. As a polemic it fell short because it didn't really engage the viewer...it simply seemed like a prolonged recitation of various things that were going badly with no visceral sense of how this has come about, what social processes are acting to drive society in this self-destructive direction. Prescriptions offered were tacked on at the end and seemed pro forma, almost childlike in their simplicity.

Nice try but the whole project needed to be re-thought. People should see this but it won't persuade anyone who doesn't already believe its conclusions.

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