Natapoc wrote:It features jenkins and others. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvH5KFS8 ... dded#at=25
END:CIV examines our culture's addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: "If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?"
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources.
"Overuse" is a word that presumes a standard measurement of use. Such standards are always arbitrary making them as necessary and relevant as the minimum drinking age.
As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil.
Every one of those "horrors" is speculative with no substantial fact outside a divided scientific community that acknowledges that there are changing conditions on the planet and always follows this acknowledgement up with a call for more gov't oversight (socialism), fewer human beings (genocide), and sustainability (deindustrialization).
Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don't have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already.
Compared to what?
But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
Backed by Jensen's narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen's poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
Oh god that that video is filled with so many assumptions, factual falsehoods, exaggerations, and misrepresentations. It was painful to watch the whole way through. Jenson appears to be a genocidal egomaniac. Just wow.
Buddy begins by acknowledging that not even a rocket scientist can deny that non-renewable resources won't last. This is true but apparently it does take a rocket surgeon to presume that the result of that will be an all-stop to civilization. Seriously, this hack goes on and on and on and on and on about how civilization has perpetrated and grown and prospered at the expense of nature. He explicitly proclaims civilization to be a voracious beast that won't stop until everything is used up... the thing is... buddy overlooks the fact that civilization is made up of human beings. And human beings are anything but content to sit idle when a problem arises. Out of food? We go shopping/hunting/farming. Out of nonrenewable resources? We find alternatives.
You know what, forget all of that. I was going to critique the movie but I figure I'd rather look at the goon that vomits this bullshit at me. Derrick Jensen. This arrogant fellow seems to present his alternative to the world as if the rest of us are too fucking stupid to see anything w/o the messiah (him and those who agree with him) to lead the way. He constantly bashes the culture and society and hails nature as more "natural" and respectable when he fails to understand that Humanity is part of nature and that culture/society are natural developments of humanity. But blah blah blah, I'm giving the man too much credit by even addressing him. He's a loon. No less. He advocates mass human extermination and the destruction of civilization.
Trees, salmon, and rocks are more important to this nutbag than a 5 year old girl. Fuck him. Seriously. He is painting some pathetic portrait of an idyllic existence where lemonade flows in rivers, the bears eat porridge at your side, and lions have beautiful curls in their hair.
He's a loon. Eliminating civilization, eliminating cities, will doom the hundreds of millions of souls that reside in those cities to impoverishment that will make even the most destitute Nigerian civil war survivor look wealthy. Fuck him. I noticed in one of his interviews that he laments that "... a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words."
Jesus this kid needs to grow up. I was under the impression this kid was a best selling author? Did I miss something here? OMG this kid is exasperating. Why am I watching this hogwash? He, along with every other socialist/elitist/would-be messiah assumes that the current level of technology is stagnant. That we'll never be able to figure junk out. That civilization, for all of its refusal to bow to reality, will use that same stubbornness to perpetuate itself w/o Jensen. He should be ignored or, at the very least, read with an immense amount of maturity. B/c only a child with absolutely no experience with the tenacity of human beings to survive would ever heed his self-righteousness. He's a loon, I can't believe I wasted 30+ minutes on that movie.
Mery, for the love of humanity, go burn that book in a sacrifice to the long dead Native Americans and their imagined eco-union. That is the only use I can think of for anything Jensen vomits. Ugh... I need a shower.
