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"ignore it until you can't anymore"
Lol. A few years ago we watched conservatives ignore COVID until they were literally dead.
- The harrowing thing for me about "Don't Look Up", was that you couldn't tell if it was about climate change, or Covid, or basically any other far-right political denialism.
  
  I assumed it was covid at first, but then I realised how long it takes to make a movie and it came out too soon... It was just that accurate.
  Funny how a lot of criticism was about how it was "too on the nose", but really, it still seems to have gone over people's heads
  
  The ending is what really got me.
  They all just sat down and kept trying to live life the way they always had, like going back and making everything the way it was just for a little while was all they could do in the face of obliteration.
  I don't know about anyone else, but the way that scene is drawn out, as the viewer, I was just expecting some deus ex machina shit to happen, like a volcano would divert the shockwave, or they would survive under the rubble, or the whole thing was a fever dream... And they all just get obliterated by the disaster they all knew was coming and no longer preventable. It's how I feel living in a house with AC, and having two cars in the driveway. I'm contributing to the climate crisis, but as an individual, I have zero impact in what is happening. The people with the power to cut back and actually make an impact on the climate won't, because they only have that power though greed above everything else.
  Anyway, sorry if you're depressed after reading it. When we hit +1.5C, all the cool people can come over to my house for a nice dinner before the food supply collapses and the famine sets in.
  
  Yea, it's the ending line
  "We had it good"
  that really got me. The resignation that there's just things out of your control even if you go down fighting.
  
  If that's your attitude, why are you waiting until later to open your home, share meals, or lend your car to people?
  
  Theft, money, insurance.
  I wanna change the world, but I still have to live in it first.
  
  If we aren't changing it, we aren't living in it.
  
  I don't get that criticism. Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful. I mean look at Bong Joon-Ho's movies. They are all extremely on the nose. It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity
  
  Being on the nose and over the top is a stylistic choice that can be really wonderful
  Right, but it can also be obnoxious to beat over the head with the same concept over and over. ]
  It seems like critics just have a smug preference for subtlety and ambiguity
  I don't know why you ascribe smugness to it, someone that watches movies for a living is obviously gonna prefer films that don't waste time telling the audience something more than necessary.
  
  Since the audience seems to miss the same point over and over again, it might be less than necessary
  
  Or they might be the wrong audience, a little of column A and B. Of course the arts are about communication, which requires effort on both parties, so each side bears some of the blame. But "we need to create something so obvious that nobody will miss it" just ends up producing people who are more oblivious. The computer simplification trends of the 2000s and 2010s resulted in a generation that knows even less about technology.
  
  More horror than dark comedy, hard to laugh after watching it. Such utter helplessness after all other attempts to stop extinction from happening fail.
  Makes you wish you first have to raise a revolution -- deal with those elites awash in absolute power and then get rid of them from ever ruling -- before taking on the task of combating the actual horror about to happen. But right now and what is infuriating is that those bastards in power are trying to squelch the voices rising up to pull them down.
- So they ignored it until they couldn't anymore.
  
  No, brother. The dead ignore everything. Not even the death of our sun will wake them.
  
  Ignoring something requires intent.
  
  Does a mountain ignoring a man mean that the mountain has the capacity to take notice?
  Ignorance is simply entropy by another name. Information is energy, and ignorance is the absence.
  
  Definition of ignore: refuse to take notice of or acknowledge; disregard intentionally.
  A mountain doesn't ignore anything because it doesn't have the capacity to be aware of anything to then choose to ignore it.
  
  How do you know? Have you asked the mountain?
  
  Is this a Game Of Thrones quote?
  
  Not that I know of.
  
  Or it at least requires awareness
- I was sure that would decimate their voter base, between those who died and those who were left to see the fall out.
- Let's not forget they were all, and still are, shitting their organs out on horse dewormer

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