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Science meets political spin & popular culture: who has seen "Don't look up!"?
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<blockquote data-quote="RDKirk" data-source="post: 76459638" data-attributes="member: 326155"><p>The movie was sorta about climate change, but not by any means specifically about climate change. I took it to be just as applicable to the national reaction to covid-19.</p><p></p><p>The sharp point in the movie is that even if the threat were real and clearly visible--<em>Just look up and see the danged thing with your own eyes!</em>--politicians and the media would suppress the magnitude, people would attempt to deny it, and if there is any money to be made out of it, they'll try to make that money. Even worse, notice that the people chosen to survive were the fat, saggy, wealthy elite. Even at the last, they were too much more concerned about their own welfare to select the young and healthy to replenish humanity.</p><p></p><p>I'd characterize it as "Dr Strangelove" for Millennials...the government playing politics too fast and loose with <strong>any</strong> genuine threat. In today's political and social landscape, what threat could there possibly be that would not be met exactly as this movie depicts it.</p><p></p><p>The movie could be considered a failure only because it attempts to be satire...but it's impossible to satirize what is already absurd.</p><p></p><p>But the kid did give a really nice prayer at that "last supper."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDKirk, post: 76459638, member: 326155"] The movie was sorta about climate change, but not by any means specifically about climate change. I took it to be just as applicable to the national reaction to covid-19. The sharp point in the movie is that even if the threat were real and clearly visible--[I]Just look up and see the danged thing with your own eyes![/I]--politicians and the media would suppress the magnitude, people would attempt to deny it, and if there is any money to be made out of it, they'll try to make that money. Even worse, notice that the people chosen to survive were the fat, saggy, wealthy elite. Even at the last, they were too much more concerned about their own welfare to select the young and healthy to replenish humanity. I'd characterize it as "Dr Strangelove" for Millennials...the government playing politics too fast and loose with [B]any[/B] genuine threat. In today's political and social landscape, what threat could there possibly be that would not be met exactly as this movie depicts it. The movie could be considered a failure only because it attempts to be satire...but it's impossible to satirize what is already absurd. But the kid did give a really nice prayer at that "last supper." [/QUOTE]
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