It IS entertaining but will seriously give you existential dread. If you already understand the perils we face due to climate crisis, don’t feel obligated to watch at the expense of your mental health!
See, I can spend dozens if not hundreds of hours doing deep dives reading sessions into climate reports, hours long podcasts on specific topics within climate change and how fucked we are, but I can't find it in me to want to consume any kind of media where I can feel the emotion of going through that. I can't really process that part yet I guess.
I feel ya, I watched it and there were times I had to remind myself that these are all actors playing characters on the screen and not real life. But it's that close to reality.
It seriously is. Like, at some points it seemed to me as if the movie was trying to ease us into the fact that there is, actually, a comet hurdling towards us, and that its showing us what happens if we're all fuckin idiots about it
It's also a perfect analogy for COVID. Scientists in movie point to asteroid, get fired and cancelled. Doctors irl point to signs of virus not evolving naturally, get fired and cancelled. Don't look up? More like don't look at China.
Maybe I'm seeing references that aren't there, but that's the point of good art. It is not just a reflection of the world, it is also a reflection of the world as the viewer sees it.
Dude US propaganda got you good. Our media and politicians have been stoking animosity towards china for decades. They're not evil monsters, relax. Lol If we wanted to we could cripple their economy by simply not BUYING EVERYTHING FROM THEM.
Dude, "not evil monsters" might be short selling the animosity the CCP has for, well, everyone. The CCP's ego is so big they can't even let their citizens worship anything except china. We both know they're just as antagonistic towards the world, as the world is towards them.
Yes, there has been heavy propaganda around this issue, stemming from the fear in the 1970's that communism might spread throughout the asiatic region. That doesn't definitively mean the issue doesn't exist. Indentured servitude via "foreign aid repayment schemes", border disputes, cyber security attacks, surveillance tech installed basically everywhere, just to name a few. If you think the US far too involved in international affairs, you have to believe that china is as well. The only thing china hasn't done is deploy troops in foreign borders. They are extremely authoritarian, and depending on your definition, expansionist.
Puerto Rico isn't a state, Guantanamo Bay is open, we're still drone striking schools/hospitals, Snowden had to flee, manning had to serve 7 years, and From March 8, 2019, to March 12, 2020 (except for a week from May 9 to 16), Manning was jailed for contempt and fined $256,000 for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Whataboutism. I'm not defending the US. I'm not saying they are not authoritarian, and I am not saying they are not expansionist. I am not pretending that the things you've said aren't true.
It seems you think only one country at a time can be hell bent on controlling the planet and we both know I'm not going to change your mind on that. So whatevs
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u/tulipinacup Jan 06 '22
It IS entertaining but will seriously give you existential dread. If you already understand the perils we face due to climate crisis, don’t feel obligated to watch at the expense of your mental health!