![]() ![]() While the film was shown at seven film festivals and received an award, the content may not be of the sort that enthusiasts share or think about after seeing it. Those reading the transcript are likely to spend $3 to $5 to view it, though I didn't find viewing the film entertaining nor actually informative as there was too much information to process in real time even though most was well plowed material I was familiar with. Still, the information value is high, perhaps priceless. ![]() And th-th-th-that's all folks! The following YouTube video offers a far better overview of Calhoun's science and concerns (as distinct from politicized interpretations): The Mouse Utopia Experiments. One blogger reviewed the film, and there is a Stanford associated audio interview of the film maker. This film will never go viral on Facebook, and if mentioned, who would Like or Share it on social media? It was mentioned on Reddit by title only and there were three brief comments with one offering a link to a YouTube video of Calhoun and his Mouse Utopia that is not pay-walled. Not because it is not professionally, award-winningly made, but few will find the content entertaining overall, so it ain't got what 99.9+% of humans in industrial society want. IMDB offers a synopsis and one "user" review. Rotten Tomatoes knows it exists, but there are no reviews. I had thought to figure out how to pirate a copy to share the information, all of which the speakers had offered freely, but why bother? The filmmaker should upload the film to Pirate Bay as post-release word-of-mouth increases revenue as some who hear about the film will pay to view (Mike, become a kopimist and upload your film). Late on the second day my wife, a guest, and I watched it. I also captured screen shots of the speakers in an attempt to keep their image matched with their name. ![]() I didn't watch it, knowing that I'd rather read and would need a transcript to vet the content, and as I couldn't find one, I spent about 25 hours with subtitles turned on and audio off stepping through the film a few seconds at a time while I typed. I read one review and an interview, then rented a streaming version to view online which was good for 48 hours. I'll infer that the film, the only high-quality professional production I know of dealing with existential issues facing humanity, is one that almost no one has seen or heard of. I had been researching along the lines this film deals with for four years before I chanced to come across mention of it. Calhoun is featured, with a supporting cast that includes William Rees, Desmond Morris, Joseph Tainter, Herman Daly, video clips of Norman Borlaug and M. ![]() It is about population, as in human population as it reaches critical mass. About 60 scientists, academics, authors, activists and advisors were interviewed, over 200 hours were compressed to one hour of mostly talking heads, with some musical and visual interludes, with 42 surviving the final cut. Even if concerns related to energy and material shortages could be dismissed as humans "decouple" from Nature, complex societies may develop increasing complexities that lead to a " behavioral sink" effect and irreversible loss of functional behaviors over the span of less than a dozen generations as pathologies accumulate and lead to extinction.ĬOOS BAY (A-P) - This is a transcript of a feature-length 2012 documentary by Mike Freedman intended for global distribution. Calhoun and his "rats of NIMH" experiments, which involved putting rats and mice in an arbitrary and unnatural context, is an alternative source of existential concerns for humans in complex techno-industrial societies, aka human zoos. Malthusian doomers are especially reviled. "Doomer" concerns are ignored, marginalized or denied outright. TOPICS: POPULATION ISSUES, FROM THE WIRES, FILM TRANSCRIPTĪbstract: Feature films considering existential concerns of scientists are as rare as those humans who would rather know than believe. TUESDAY, FEB 26, 2019: NOTE TO FILE Critical Mass A film on population issues ![]()
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