Each time you visit this page, you’ll find a different randomized selection of brilliant Evolutionary Cinema to expand your heart, mind, and soul.
♥ Enjoy & Evolve ♥
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Peter Joseph
InterReflections
Epic Satirical Science-Fiction Film [2020]
Absolutely brilliant new film from Peter Joseph, my absolute #1 intellectual influence and philosophical hero. There is so much to say about this film, but it articulates the central thesis of the Zeitgeist Movement probably more effectively than any of their other work. Peter is always epically on-point in all his films and books and lectures, but the rest of his works are more strictly cerebral & analytical. True reality is very complicated, but this film manages to articulate it as clearly as I can imagine. Thanks again Peter, for illuminating the Truth for us all to see.
“InterReflections explores deep social issues. In three timelines our main story takes us into the future when ecological crisis and inequality has destabilized society. John Taylor, a defected government intelligence agent turned revolutionary leader, is captured by his former colleague and nemesis, Simon Devoe.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Film, Interviews, Symposia
Tags: Abstract Art, Advertising, Capitalism, Civics, Civilization, Conspiracy, Control, Culture, Ecology, Education, Egalitarianism, Environment, Environmental Justice, Evolution, Futurism, Gaia, History, Inequality, Malthus, Marketing, Peter Joseph, Philosophy, Propaganda, Psyche-Warfare, Regeneration, Religion, Revolution, Satire, Science-Fiction, Society, Stability, Sustainability, Systems Thinking, Technology, The Zeitgeist Movement, Tripworthy, Vision, War, Zeitgeist Movies
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Barry Ptolemy
Transcendent Man
Ray Kurzweil Singularity Documentary [2009]
This is the film that pulled me out of my despair after waking up. ♥ It explains how we really are in the midst of a great evolution into a totally new mode of being. It’s a scientific account of the cyberian transcension of world lore, truly a must-see.
❝ The compelling feature-length documentary film, by director Barry Ptolemy, chronicles the life and controversial ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil. For more than three decades, inventor, futures, and New York Times best-selling author Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In Transcendent Man, Ptolemy follows Kurzweil around the globe as he presents the daring arguments from his best-selling book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil predicts that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change, humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly non-biological and millions of times more powerful. This will be the dawning of a new civilization enabling us to transcend our biological limitations. In Kurzweil’s post-biological world, boundaries blur between human and machine, real and virtual. Human aging and illness are reversed, world hunger and poverty are solved, and we cure death. Ptolemy explores the social and philosophical implications of these changes and the potential threats they pose to human civilization in dialogues with world leader Colin Powell; technologists Hugo deGaris, Peter Diamandis, Kevin Warwick, and Dean Kamen; journalist Kevin Kelly; actor William Shatner; and musician Stevie Wonder. Kurzweil maintains a radically optimistic view of the future, while acknowledging new dangers. Award-winning American composer Philip Glass contributes original theme music that mirrors the depth and intensity of the film.” [Official Site]
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries
Tags: Evolution, Futurism, Ray Kurzweil, Singularity, Technology, Transhumanism
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Andrew Johner
Electronic Awakening
Transformational Festival Ethnography Documentary [2017]
“Electronic Awakening is an ethnographic documentary film by Director / Producer Andrew Johner that investigates the spirituality of Electronic Dance Music culture and its ties to ancient shamanic rituals. The film features dozens of experts, visionaries, and published authors who explore the premise that “Electronic Music is spiritual technology that allows access to higher states of consciousness”. Filmed over a period of 5 years at events such as Burning Man, Earthdance, LoveFest, Moontribe, Wicked, Shambhala and the Boom Festival in Portugal, it highlights the project’s significant breadth.”
watch for $3 on Vimeo
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Interviews, Montages, Symposia
Tags: Alex Grey, Androcell, Bird of Prey, Conscious Festivals, Culture, Dancing, Daniel Pinchbeck, Desert Dwellers, Eastern Sun, EDM, Festie Worthy, Festival Culture, Gladkill, Govinda, Grouch, Hedonism, History, Jason Knight, Lightning in a Bottle, Moontribe, OtL Sources, Paganism, Philosophy, Phutureprimitive, Psychedelics, Random Rab, Raving, Shpongle, SHЕFF, Society, Solar Fields, Starhawk, Terence McKenna, The Crystal Method, Transformational Festivals, Tripworthy, Vibrasphere, Мастер
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Andrew Rutajit
Confessions of a Hierophant
Occult Ethnobotany Documentary [2020]
open the video on YouTube for timestamps on when he talks about each subject! so much material! and please don’t be turned off by the simulation shit in the first few minutes lol
“This video explores the role of psychedelic mushroom use and sun/star worship at the foundation of modern-day religion as well as our modern-day religious holidays. Written, narrated, and edited by Andrew Rutajit (Schuelein).”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Montages, Symposia, Video Essays
Tags: Ancient History, Andrew Rutajit, Anthropology, Christianity, Culture, Drugs, Early Christianity, Entheogenesis, Entheogens, Ethnobotany, Hierophant, History, Holidays, Magic Mushrooms, Occult, Paganism, Potential UC Guests, Psychedelics, Religion, Tripworthy
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Michael Gracey
The Greatest Showman
American Theater History Drama Film [2013]
“Inspired by the imagination of P.T. Barnum, The Greatest Showman is an original musical that celebrates the birth of show business & tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Directed By Michael Gracey Cast: Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson”
Categories: Biographical Dramas, Cinema, Film
Tags: American History, Brian Helgeland, Circus, Drama, History, Lore, P.T. Barnum, Period Piece, Popular Culture, Show Business, Theater
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Peter Janssen
The Reality of Truth
Plant Medicine Documentary [2017]
“This highly provocative documentary explores the relationship between spirituality, religion, and plant medicine. Featuring top thought leaders including Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Marianne Williamson, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and hosted by Mike “Zappy” Zapolin, the film explores how to access the true reality through plant medicine, Ayahuasca and meditation. It includes first of its kind interviews with top spiritual gurus, celebrities, and people of all faiths, about this intriguing connection and their personal experiences with spirituality and transcendence.
Throughout history human beings have searched for gateways to spirituality that have included meditation, prayer and plant medicine. The Judeo Christian religions, Vedic traditions, and Shamanistic rituals all incorporate techniques focused on transcending the physical reality. These ancient techniques have been uncovered and are now available to society, enabling our ability to tap into our true reality and awakening.
Interviews with leading scientists validate the merging of spirituality and science. The worldwide awareness of the film is meant to break through the “illusion of reality,” and allow viewers to move forward toward a more meaningful and peaceful future. The filmmakers are conducting interviews with today’s thought leaders from around the globe, while capturing the culture and energy of some of the most spiritual places on earth, including Peru, Rome, Maui, Costa Rica and the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. ~ https://therealityoftruth.com ~ http://www.PortalToAscension.org
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Interviews, Symposia
Tags: Ayahuasca, Civilization, Culture, Deepak Chopra, Evolution, Gurus, Marianne Williamson, Meditation, Mike “Zappy” Zapolin, Peter Janssen, Philosophy, Plant Medicine, Psychedelics, Ram Dass, Religion, Science, Spirituality, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Tripworthy
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This show is amazing because the whole story is organized around a class beef between rich & poor teenagers on an island in North Carolina, where a corrupt rich family is trying to steal a lost treasure that rightfully belonged to a poor family many generations ago, and the legacy of past injustices reverberates thru the contemporary teens’ quest to find the treasure. All the characters are great & the drama is profound. Brilliant show! ♥Neonn
Watch for free on Netflix
Categories: Action-Adventure, Cinema, Drama, Teen, Thriller, TV
Tags: Class, Class Consciousness, Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, Netflix, Poverty, Shannon Burke, Treasure-Hunting
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Johnny Depp
Transcendence
A.I. Sci-Fi Film [2014]
❝ Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp), the world’s foremost authority on artificial intelligence, is conducting highly controversial experiments to create a sentient machine. When extremists try to kill the doctor, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed. Will’s wife, Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), and best friend, Max (Paul Bettany), can only watch as his thirst for knowledge evolves to an omnipresent quest for power, and his loved ones soon realize that it may be impossible to stop him. [Google]
” Transcendence is a 2014 American science fiction thriller film directed by cinematographer Wally Pfister in his directorial debut, and written by Jack Paglen. The film stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Cole Hauser, and Morgan Freeman. Pfister’s usual collaborator, Christopher Nolan, served as executive producer on the project.
Paglen’s screenplay was listed on the 2012 edition of The Black List, a list of popular unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Transcendence was a disappointment at the box office, grossing only slightly more than its $100 million budget. The film received mainly negative reviews; it was criticized for its plot structure, characters and dialogue. ❞ [Wikipedia]written by Jack Paglen
directed by Wally PfisterTags: 5D, A.I., Cyberspace, Johnny Depp, Posthumanism, Science-Fiction, Transcendence, Transhumanism, Uploading
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Stacey Peralta
Crips & Bloods:
Made in AmericaSociological American History Documentary [2014]
“South Los Angeles is home to two of America’s most infamous African-American gangs – the Crips and the Bloods. On these streets over the past 30 years, more than 15,000 people have been murdered in an ongoing cycle of gang violence that continues unabated. In Made In America, renowned documentarian Stacy Peralta blends gripping archival footage and photos with in-depth interviews of current and former gang members, historians, and experts, documenting the emergence of the Bloods and the Crips, but also offering insight as to how this ongoing tragedy might be resolved.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries
Tags: 20th Century, America, Black Power, Bloods, Civil Rights, Corruption, Crime, Crips, Culture, Deep State, Gangs, Gangster Movies, Gangsterism, History, Justice, Los Angeles, Martyrs, OtL Sources, Racism, Social Justice, Social Pathology, Society, Stacey Peralta, Tripworthy, Violence
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“The first comprehensive look at the dance music revolution Can You Feel It – How Dance Music Conquered The World is a three-part series produced for BBC Four in the UK and international sales through Eagle Rock. Each episode takes an in-depth look at one of the three pillars of a scene that, over the last thirty years, has gone from underground movement to global phenomenon. We tell the story of the origins and development of the music itself, how clubs became the most important cultural entertainment spaces of our era and finally the extraordinary rise of the DJ from awkward sideman to the world’s biggest music stars. Our cast list boasts a defining list of dance’s pioneers, innovators and biggest stars alongside a killer soundtrack. As Marshall Jefferson says, “You gotta have house music all night long”.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Music Videos, TV
Tags: Clubbing, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Dance, DJs, EDM, Evolution, History, Media Theory, Music Theory, Nico Wasserman, Raving, Society
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Roxanne Meadows
The Choice Is Ours
The Venus Project Documentary [2016]
“This film series explores many aspects of our society. To rethink what is possible in our world, we need to consider what kind of world we want to live in. Although we refer to it as a civilization, it is anything but civilized. Visions of global unity & fellowship have long inspired humanity, yet the social arrangements up to the present have largely failed to produce a peaceful and productive world. While we appear to be technically advanced, our values and behaviors are not. The possibility of an optimistic future is in stark contrast to our current social, economic, and environmental dilemmas. The Choice Is Ours includes interviews with notable scientists, media professionals, authors, and other thinkers exploring the difficulties we face.
Part I provides an introduction and overview of cultural & environmental conditions that are untenable for a sustainable world civilization. It explores the determinants of behavior to dispel the myth of “human nature” while demonstrating how the environment shapes behavior. The science of behavior is an important – yet largely missing – ingredient in our culture.
Part II questions the values, behaviors, and consequences of our social structures, and illustrates how our global monetary system is obsolete and increasingly insufficient to meet the needs of most people. Critical consideration of the banking, media, and criminal justice systems reveals these institutions for what they really are: tools of social control managed by the established political and economic elite. If we stay the present course, the familiar cycles of crime, economic booms & busts, war, and further environmental destruction are inevitable.
Part III explains the methods and potential of science. It proposes solutions that we can apply at present to eliminate the use of non-renewable sources of energy. It depicts the vision of The Venus Project to build an entirely new world from the ground up, a “redesign of the culture,” where all enjoy a high standard of living, free of servitude and debt, while also protecting the environment.
Part IV explains how it is not just architecture and a social structure that is in desperate need of change, but our values which have been handed down from centuries ago. They too need to be updated to our technological age, which has the potential to eliminate our scarcity-driven societies of today. Our problems are mostly of our own making, but we can still turn things around before the point of no return. It’s not too late for an optimistic outlook on the fantastic possibilities that lie before us.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Interviews, Symposia
Tags: Anti-Capitalism, Capital, Capitalism, Civilization, Culture, Evolution, Futurism, Jacque Fresco, Meadows Venus, Philosophy, Post-Capitalism, Post-Scarcity, Religion, Science, Society, Sociocyberneering, Technocracy, Technology, The Venus Project, Tripworthy
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Peter Joseph
Zeitgeist:
Moving ForwardEpic Civilizational Evolution Documentary [2011]
This is the greatest documentary of all time. This is the single most important item on this website. Please, please, please watch it. It fully articulates the true nature of our current global economic system, as well as the alternative system we must ultimately transition to in order to survive as a species. ♥Neonn
“Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011) focuses on “Monetary-Market Economics” and its repercussions. Chapter 1 is treatment on “Human Nature”, noting that our social traditions are out of line with what constitutes positive human development. Chapter 2 details the core flaws of our economic system and how it is destroying us and the planet. Chapter 3 begins a thought exercise where our modern scientific understanding is considered as the starting point for human decision-making and Chapter 4 sets predictions of what is to come as society becomes more destabilized due to our outdated practices.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Interviews, Symposia
Tags: America, Capitalism, Civilization, Conspiracy, Control, Corruption, Debt, Disaster Capitalism, Ecocide, Ecology, Economics, Environment, Environmental Justice, Evolution, Futurism, Gabor Mate, History, Human Nature, Inequality, Jacque Fresco, Money, Peter Joseph, Philosophy, Post-Scarcity, Poverty, Psychology, Revolution, Science, Social Pathology, Sociology, Solutions, Sustainability, Systems Thinking, Technocracy, Technology, The Market, The Venus Project, The Zeitgeist Movement, Tripworthy, War, Zeitgeist Movies
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“Manufacturing Consent explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. Through a collage of biography, archival material and various graphics and illustrations, Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick’s 22-award-winning documentary highlights Chomsky’s probing analysis of mass media and his critique of the forces at work behind the daily news.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries, Symposia
Tags: Civics, Conspiracy, Control, Culture, Futurism, Manufacturing Consent, Mark Achbar, Noam Chomsky, Peter Wintonick, Propaganda, Psyche-Warfare, Religion, Society, Technology, The Media
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Oliver Stone
Snowden
Surveillance State Biodrama Film [2016]
“Disillusioned with the intelligence community, top contractor Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) leaves his job at the National Security Agency. He now knows that a virtual mountain of data is being assembled to track all forms of digital communication — not just from foreign governments and terrorist groups, but from ordinary Americans. When Snowden decides to leak this classified information, he becomes a traitor to some, a hero to others and a fugitive from the law.” (Google)
Watch on Netflix
Categories: Biographical Dramas, Cinema, Film
Tags: America, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Military-Industrial Complex, NSA, Oliver Stone, Snowden, Surveillance, War
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Rebecca Cutter
Hightown
Anti-War on Drugs Crime Drama Series [2020-present]
I absolutely love this show. After watching the trailer, I expected it to be some basic Drug War propaganda about how good innocent people’s lives inevitably get destroyed & ended early whenever they get involved with drugs, but I decided to watch it anyways because it looked like potentially quality content (& I am a propaganda analyst, after all). The series opens with a cold-blooded murder, which seems to confirm my suspicion. But as the 8-episode first season unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that the narcotics detective is the villain of the show, rather than the hero, and that the drug users and the gangsters who supply them are merely victims of a brutal inhuman system of tyranny called drug prohibition.
As with almost every brilliant radical film & TV show, the industry stooges who professionally write reviews all seem to have hated it. That’s how you know a piece of cinema is truly revolutionary & contrary to the official narrative of social control they want us to consume. Anti-War on Drugs propaganda is very rare in this country, so that’s all the reason we must cherish it when it does manage to get made. Please watch this show! You can get a free trial of STARZ through Amazon or Hulu. Don’t sleep on it!
Watch Hightown free with your STARZ subscription;
free trial available thru Amazon or Hulu;
or pay $2 for it on YouTubeCategories: Cinema, Crime Drama, Drama, Thriller, TV
Tags: Anti-Prohibition, Crime, Culture, Drugs, Gangster Movies, Gangsterism, Massachusetts, Murder Mystery, Opioids, P-Town, Prohibition, Queer, Society, STARZ, Violence
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Greg Harrison
Groove
Authentic Renegade Rave Dramedy Film [2000]
The following is a long-form movie review by Neonn Felicity. Usually my words are in this font/color & quoted official descriptions are in lavender, but I wrote 1300 words about this amazing film & wasn’t sure where to post them, & it would take up too much space to put them all here in that format. So here they are, at least for now! 😛
Vudu ($3) ~ Amazon Prime ($3) ~ YouTube ($4)
If you would like to see an authentic portrait of the rave experience, including the dialectic between the event producers and the rave police, watch a movie called Groove. Somehow, writer-director Greg Harrison was able to capture extremely nuanced aspects of the whole thing that every raver has witnessed and felt and laughed at again and again over the course of going to underground raves. It was by far the most accurate depiction of the way people act on ecstasy at raves that I have ever seen in my life. It shows the way people converse in the midst of the party in profoundly honest and healing ways that deepen and accelerate the development of relationships between siblings, long-time friends, lovers new and old, and people who only just met for a brief but important moment.
The characters all felt eerily familiar to me, as if I had met them in real life at real raves, to such an extent that I feel like they must be somewhat universal archetypes across time and space. Groove was produced a decade before I started raving, but so much of it reminded me of those early days when I first fell in love with this culture and converted to the neopagan rave religion and adopted the name Neonn.
They depict brilliantly the phenomenon of “renegade” raves in abandoned warehouses whose locations remain undisclosed until the night of the party, when there is a phone number that reveals an address to a “map point” on the outgoing voicemail message, and there is somebody at the map point giving directions to the party to ravers for $2. That’s the price.
Later on, the main dude who threw the party is asked, “Why do you do this to yourself? Don’t even get paid, risk getting arrested, for what?” And he says, “You don’t know?” “No.” “The nod.” “The nod?” “Yeah. It happens to me at least once every party. Somebody comes up to me, says, ‘Thank you for making this happen; I needed this; this really meant something to me,’ and then they nod. And I nod back.” “That’s it?” “That’s it.”
Groove depicts the DJs, the drug dealers, the tech people, the decor people, the event promoters and organizers, and the individual ravers in participatory attendance all as creating this immensely valuable ecstatic container purely for the love of it. They are putting on these wonderful epic parties because they actually love it so deeply that they are willing to do it not only for almost no pay, but at a material cost of the risk of fines, asset seizures, and jail.
This labor of profound love refutes the obsolete speculation about human nature that asserts that culture needs a monetary incentive to be produced, cultivated, maintained, and innovated on. Authentic rave culture does not operate primarily by the profit motive, and yet it is Evolving more rapidly than the consumer culture which is primarily motivated by profit.
If you need proof, just look at the memetic recycling going on in the endless remakes and spin-offs and derivative knock-offs Hollywood is constantly producing, and the nauseatingly vapid consumeristic bling bling pop music playing on repeat on every radio station across the country, most of which are owned by a few gigantic oligopolistic corporations who bought them all up after Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 deregulating—among other things—the cap on how many terrestrial radio stations a single corporate entity could own. Our anarchic neopagan culture is more emotionally and humanistically sophisticated, more imaginatively creative, and more genuinely innovative and future-oriented than that which money can possibly ever hope to incentivize. This film depicts that quite well.
I think that’s why Roger Ebert hated it so much. I haven’t read much of his work, but I know he was one of the most famous cinematic tastemakers in the country who got his start at the Chicago Sun Times in 1967, when the Establishment—the Leviathan—was in full-blown panic mode about the rise of the psychedelic counterculture, so I assume he made a name for himself hippie-punching all the way back at the beginning of his career. In that respect, I shouldn’t have been surprised at how offended he was by the portrayal of people having positive life-affirming experiences on drugs at a rave. That’s part of what was so special about that film!
Usually the writers and the studios are coerced by the ratings agencies and their corporate shareholders into never ever portraying “drug use without negative consequences” (except alcohol, because that’s, uh, different because, uh, it’s legal). There’s a lot of fascist propaganda machinery working behind the scenes to ensure that just about any time anybody does an illegal drug in a movie or on TV, something terrible happens to them. That’s incredibly dishonest, and it creates an extremely distorted and inaccurate public perception of what illegal drugs—in general and specific ones in particular—and people who do them responsibly and recreationally are actually like in real life, and what the actual risk-to-reward ratio is in doing them.
On the one hand, it undermines the credibility of people who sincerely care about preventing people from naïvely harming themselves in pursuit of a high, because by insisting that all depictions of drug use in the mainstream media be exaggerated scare stories where the moral of the story is basically, “Just say ‘no’ to drugs, kids,” nobody who ever does an illegal drug will ever listen to another word they say about the issue.
On the other hand, such systematically distorted depictions of drug use in our culture does infantilize the public about it such that most people are utterly trapped in a false understanding of—not to mention an impoverished appreciation for—the realms of conscious experience accessible to human beings given our extraordinary brains and our historical legacy of using them to invent shamanic mysticism and biochemistry and neuropsychopharmacology.
Groove showed me that psychedelic drug use—and all the quirky behavior it instigates in ravers, before, during, and after the party, from every different perspective within the intimate temporary ecstatic community—can in fact be depicted honestly, accurately, and authentically in film. It can be done. I always knew most of those other movies about psychedelics in general or raving in particular were slanderous, but Groove made me appreciate just how slanderous they were. Roger Ebert only got tricked into thinking this film was an inaccurate portrait of psychedelic culture because all he had was legitimately inaccurate portraits of it to compare it to. He drank the prohibitionist Kool-Aide, so apparently, he couldn’t recognize the truth in the art when he saw it.
In all the hundreds of raves I’ve been to, spanning over a decade now, with hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of people at each event, I’ve shared dancefloor space with cumulatively millions of people at this point. Of all those millions of people I’ve raved with, I’ve only ever heard of somebody dying at an event I was at twice. In both instances, it was Prohibition that killed them. One died from an overdose of an obscure research chemical that was sold to her under the pretense that it was LSD. That would not happen if these drugs were available from legitimate sources and thereby properly accurately labelled.
The other died from a lack of proper drug safety education; she overheated on the dancefloor on MDMA after dancing for ten hours straight without taking a break to hydrate and cool off for a minute. If her high school curriculum had taught her to remember to take breaks from dancing and to drink lots of water if she is going to be taking ecstasy, she would be alive right now. It was not the drug that killed her; it was the misguided paternalistic impulse that decided it was better to keep her ignorant of proper safety precautions.
The cynic in me wants to say that prohibitionists keep those teenagers ignorant and those drugs unlabeled and unregulated on purpose so that some ravers will accidentally hurt or kill themselves at a rave, because it helps to validate their hysterical slanderous anti-drug propaganda when there is in fact a real horror story anecdote they can point to and exploit the public’s bias toward anecdotes over statistics, the vast majority of which say that on the whole, drugs are actually good! Most illegal drug use—especially of psychedelics—is perfectly appropriate and healthy, and provides people with intellectual curiosity, emotional catharsis, bodily pleasure, or even mystical transcendence. It’s good to finally see a movie that portrays that underrepresented aspect of my spiritual community. Fuck Roger Ebert.
Categories: Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Dramedy, Film
Tags: Absolute Favs, Culture, Ecstasy, EDM Culture, Greg Harrison, MDMA, Must-Watch, Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Psychedelics, Rave Culture, Raves, Renegades, Show Business, Tripworthy
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Todd Phillips
War Dogs
Military-Industrial Complex Satire Film [2016]
Great comic illustration of the depravity of the war industry, through the lens of a couple amateurish leeches who get rich middle-manning death machines for the US military, starring Jonah Hill & Miles Teller.
“With the war in Iraq raging on, a young man (Jonah Hill) offers his childhood friend a chance to make big bucks by becoming an international arms dealer. Together, they exploit a government initiative that allows businesses to bid on U.S. military contracts. Starting small allows the duo to rake in money and live the high life. They soon find themselves in over their heads after landing a $300 million deal to supply Afghan forces, a deal that puts them in business with some very shady people.”
Watch for free on Netflix
Categories: Cinema, Comedy, Film
Tags: America, Capitalism, Comedy, Fascism, Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Military-Industrial Complex, Satire, The Profit Motive, Todd Phillips, War
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Brian Helgeland
42
American Racial History Sports Drama Film [2013]
“Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures are teaming up with director Brian Helgeland for “42,” the powerful story of Jackie Robinson, the legendary baseball player who broke Major League Baseball’s color barrier when he joined the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. “42” will star Academy Award(R) nominee Harrison Ford (“Witness”) as the innovative Dodger’s general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who first signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, and Chadwick Boseman (“The Express”) as Robinson, the heroic African American who was the first man to break the color line in the big leagues.”
Categories: Biographical Dramas, Cinema, Film
Tags: 1940s, American History, Apartheid, Baseball, Brian Helgeland, Drama, History, Integration, Justice, Lore, Period Piece, Popular Culture, Progress, Psychology, Race, Racism, Segregation, Sports
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David Cronenberg
Cosmopolis
Surrealist Sci-Fi Film [2012]
❝ New York City, not-too-distant-future: Eric Packer, a 28 year-old finance golden boy dreaming of living in a civilization ahead of this one, watches a dark shadow cast over the firmament of the Wall Street galaxy, of which he is the uncontested king. As he is chauffeured across midtown Manhattan to get a haircut at his father’s old barber, his anxious eyes are glued to the yuan’s exchange rate: it is mounting against all expectations, destroying Eric’s bet against it. Eric Packer is losing his empire with every tick of the clock. Meanwhile, an eruption of wild activity unfolds in the city’s streets. Petrified as the threats of the real world infringe upon his cloud of virtual convictions, his paranoia intensifies during the course of his 24-hour cross-town odyssey. Packer starts to piece together clues that lead him to a most terrifying secret: his imminent assassination. ❞ [Official Site]
❝ Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager’s day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart. ❞ [IMDb]based on the novel by Don DeLillo
Tags: Commentary, Culture, Cynicism, Sci-Fi, Society, Sociology, Surrealism, Tripworthy
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HBO
Boardwalk Empire
Epic 1920s Gangster Drama Series [2010-2014]
Absolutely brilliant show! It’s like The Wire but for alcohol Prohibition ^^ starring Steve Buscemi
Tags: Culture, Drama, Gangster Movies, Gangsterism, HBO, Period Piece, Prohibition, Society
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Otto Bathurst
Robin Hood
Action-Adventure Film [2018]
“Robin of Loxley (Taron Egerton) a war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander (Jamie Foxx) mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown in a thrilling action-adventure packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind-blowing fight choreography, and a timeless romance.”
Categories: Biographical Dramas, Cinema, Film
Tags: Comedy, Corruption, Drama, England, Fantasy, History, Jamie Foxx, Lore, Otto Bathurst, Period Piece, Robin Hood, Taron Egerton
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ContraPoints
“Transtrenders”
Satirical Cultural Philosophy Dramatization [2019]
Categories: Cinema, Debates, Short Films, Symposia, Video Essays, Vlogs
Tags: Aesthetics, Breadtube, ContraPoints, Fashion, Festie Worthy, Gender, Makeup, Natalie Winn, Norms, Transgender, Transgression, Transtrenders, Tripworthy, Witchcraft, Wokeness
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Sam Pollard
MLK/FBI
American History Documentary [2021]
“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, award-winning editor and director Sam Pollard (Editor, 4 LITTLE GIRLS, MO’ BETTER BLUES; Director/Producer, EYEZ ON THE PRIZE, SAMMY DAVIS, JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME) lays out a detailed account of the FBI surveillance that dogged King’s activism throughout the ’50s and ’60s, fueled by the racist and red-baiting paranoia of J. Edgar Hoover. In crafting a rich archival tapestry, featuring some revelatory restored footage of King, Pollard urges us to remember that true American progress is always hard-won.”
Categories: Cinema, Documentaries
Tags: 20th Century, America, Black Power, Civil Rights, Civilization, COINTELPRO, Cold War, Communism, Conspiracy, Corruption, Deep State, Espionage, Fascism, FBI, Freedom, Gangster Movies, Gangsterism, Hard History, History, Holiday Histories, Justice, Martyrs, MLK, Nonviolence, Peace, Progress, Racism, Red Scare, Sam Pollard, Social Justice, Social Pathology, Society, Tripworthy, Violence
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Matthew Childers
Digital Introspect
Psychedelic Kinetic Graphic Designer & VJ
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