This film exposes ugly and appalling truths? I think they are just presenting the information that is already there in a dense way. You didn't see it or ignored it, and it was your own problems that caused the shock today. The facts are always there. There is no mystery. If you want to know, you will know. If you don't want to know, you will not know. Because of these facts, no one deliberately puts it behind your back and shakes it in front of you a few times, or even deliberately sells it door-to-door. They are simple facts of existence, the most simple things, often inconspicuous and often ignored.
I suddenly remembered a sentence, I am not afraid of anything, I am afraid of ease. Once people get used to it, they lose some...some precious things, such as independent thinking. Some people will even try to maintain what they have, not because of servility, humans don't have servility, but we have another nature. When the existing collapses, you show not only the superficial horror of losing a pattern and habit, but the inner panic as well. And the deep panic comes from self-denial. Everything you have spiritually and materially will be denied, and most people will have a mental breakdown. Therefore, people are still selfish.
This is not the so-called progress of human beings, it is just applying some old ideas to new technologies. I find it sad that we keep ignoring those things.
PS. The Venus Project fits well with some of my current values about the world, but I don't give a cent to the Venus Project. Because to be honest, this concept cannot be realized at present. But I wrote these words to represent my spiritual appreciation for this philosophy.
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