How do you know what it is to think "differently"? What is "differently" when you experience it?
It popped up when I was considering our social outlook on the term "renegade". There's quite a word: a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles. "an agent who later turns out to be a renegade"
Renegade is a tv show created and hosted by Ross Ashcroft, a British filmmaker, broadcaster and entrepreneur. Given that definition, what might we expect from him? Misinformation and conspiracies? That's not the case.
He is the director of the film Four Horsemen, a 2012 British documentary that criticizes the system of fractional reserve banking, debt-based economy and political lobbying by banks, which it regards as a serious threat to Western civilization. It criticized the War on Terror, which it maintains is not fought to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizations, but to create larger debt to the banks.
What the film promotes is a return to classical economics and the gold standard. To get its point across, it turns to well-known experts. Among those interviewed are Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at the World Bank; Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor; John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; ecological economist and steady-state theorist Herman Daly, formerly at the World Bank; and Max Keiser, TV host and former trader.
The four horsemen? "A rapacious financial system, escalating organised violence, abject poverty for billions and the exhaustion of Earth's resources." I watched the beginning with the comparison of the Roman Empire to the American Empire in their declining years.
I looked to Rotten Tomatoes, the online aggregator of movie and TV show reviews from critics - for a view of whether it is a Fresh or Rotten film. They gave it a 5.7 out of 10 average rating from 7 reviews. The audience gave it a 3.9 out of 5 average rating with 100 ratings. I think that's in the Fresh range. Other sites gave it a much higher rating.
It is on Youtube HERE. It is compelling to watch the interplay of images of documentary footage interspersed with intellectual luminaries expressing concern over the current situation. Particularly from the point of view of 10 years later.
So I switch quickly to the photos of the day - layouts from one of the narrow gauge railway convention. Is it part of the public lethargy that happens during the decline - something that Ashcroft warns us of.
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