For a break I recently watched (part of - sometimes I just want to do something different for half an hour - meaning the movie will be watched in instalments) “The Old Guard” and “The Old Guard 2” movies, and I had a couple of thoughts.
The first is:
what if these long-passage-of-time films showed the other options that, in reality, people also pursue other than physical (including economic) power - things like knowledge, healing, and strength of compassion?
The other thought was a counterpoint to a key part of the first film, which showed the heroines and heroes of the film saving lives which "made a difference" subsequently - either personally, or through a descendant.
That counterpoint was:
the deliberate, malicious, absolute destruction of human potential by neoliberal capitalists to break human beings into being subservient, Calvinist work and busyness ethic, economic cogs ... much as the arrogant antagonist of the first film (and his lead medical researcher) assumed others were theirs to do with as they pleased - irrespective of the good they were doing elsewhere.
I have often expressed my sorrow at the fact that this world has lost countless Einsteins, Marie Curies, and Lynn Conways to global poverty, but we have also lost many globally to workplaces that are run by managers and foreign owners as slavish cults ... and we will continue to do so until the power balance and respect shifts back to workers, and - ultimately - we have something like a UBI.
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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