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For me, one of the most impactful movies in the last decade has been Tomorrowland. The entire movie was about how we relate to the future, and how that relation
by madrox 6y ago
For me, one of the most impactful movies in the last decade has been Tomorrowland. The entire movie was about how we relate to the future, and how that relationship creates it. I don't believe optimism is a luxury. We have to hold an image in our head of our ideal future and work to make it.
It's a lot like this pandemic. I read the news, and it conjures images in my head from every pandemic movie ever. Cars abandoned in the street. Trash everywhere. Society reduced to tribalism. Then I go outside to see that the sun is shining and everything appears somewhat normal except people are wearing masks.
- throwaway13337 6y agoI haven't seen the movie but I often contemplate the idea that our current pessimism about the future makes it so. Media of the past like Star Trek inspired us that our future was hopeful. There is also media which tends to look at an idealized past and a longing to go back to it. Though I love his world, Tolkien is an example here. These general narratives show up in a ton of the media we consume and shape our view of the world. Sometimes for the negative and sometimes for the positive. I posit that they shape our real-world direction more than we suspect. We've lost our vision of the future so what's next is bleak because we make it so. We must first have a strong, positive narrative of the future in order for that future to follow.
- nojvek 6y agoWe had the pandemic + smoke from the recent fires in the west coast. It was truly dystopian. Not being able to see the stars for weeks, not being able to breath clean air, not being able to touch things. This is not a world I’d like to leave behind for my kids. I’m not sure there is much I can do though.