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And you know,
I often ponder all this, trying to put myself
in the shoes of the average person back then, especially in the more affluent
and highly unequal regions, such as
the United States of America, and it really makes me shudder. People stuck in traffic,
piling into these office prisons to push paper around,
engaging meaningless occupations that wasted far more energy
and wealth than they created so they can continue buying
these things they don't need, elevating their artificial
status and so on. It's like a bad horror movie
I often ponder all this, trying to put myself
in the shoes of the average person back then, especially in the more affluent
and highly unequal regions, such as
the United States of America, and it really makes me shudder. People stuck in traffic,
piling into these office prisons to push paper around,
engaging meaningless occupations that wasted far more energy
and wealth than they created so they can continue buying
these things they don't need, elevating their artificial
status and so on. It's like a bad horror movie
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And you know,
I often ponder all this,
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trying to put myself
in the shoes
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of the average person back then,
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especially in the more affluent
and highly unequal regions,
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such as
the United States of America,
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and it really makes me shudder.
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People stuck in traffic,
piling into these office prisons
00:00:17.282 --> 00:00:21.087
to push paper around,
engaging meaningless occupations
00:00:21.119 --> 00:00:24.998
that wasted far more energy
and wealth than they created
00:00:24.001 --> 00:00:26.893
so they can continue buying
these things they don't need,
00:00:26.925 --> 00:00:29.861
elevating their artificial
status and so on.
00:00:29.895 --> 00:00:31.897
It's like a bad horror movie.
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Movie Summary
In a quest for a new, more humane society, a counter-culture revolution takes the world by storm. In the first of the InterReflections Trilogy, we look back to the modern world and wonder how it was we managed to survive as long as w