![Earthling's "Space Slug Bad Touch" Is Destined For Cult Status](http://cache-05.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/03/126x100_earthling-poster.jpg "Earthling's "Space Slug Bad Touch" Is Destined For Cult Status")
![In "Ugly Americans," New York Is Full Of Monsters](http://cache-07.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/03/126x100_custom_1268854750368_picture_46_01.jpg "In "Ugly Americans," New York Is Full Of Monsters")
![Caprica's Esai Morales: "We Don’t Know When We’re Going To Get Picked Up"](http://cache-08.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/03/126x100_custom_1268846335859_picture_43_01.jpg "Caprica's Esai Morales: "We Don’t Know When We’re Going To Get Picked Up"")
Enter your username and password.
*sighs* Another luddite-y movie...
This picture perfectly describes how the "healthy" and "pure" nature really looks like just how our luddite and pseudo-environmentalist-friends imagine it... Reply
@Shadowdagger:
One more thing:
So let's say the directors are all anti-technology and stuff. So I guess they made this movie just with bamboo sticks, stones and.......... wait...
ps: luddites are hypocrites. Reply
One more thing:
So let's say the directors are all anti-technology and stuff. So I guess they made this movie just with bamboo sticks, stones and.......... wait...
ps: luddites are hypocrites. Reply
@Shadowdagger:
"luddites" aren't people who hate technology, "luddites" are people who fight against the use of technology to replace humans, specifically human labor. They were originally a group of fabric weavers who fought against the use of the auto-loom (which requires fewer hands to operate) and were united under one of the first union organizers who's name was General Ludd. More colloquially it means one who has a difficult time or resists the implementation of NEW technologies because they introduce NEW procedures which are unfamiliar to the user.
Though, I do think you are right, they, the film makers are probably hypocrites. Reply
"luddites" aren't people who hate technology, "luddites" are people who fight against the use of technology to replace humans, specifically human labor. They were originally a group of fabric weavers who fought against the use of the auto-loom (which requires fewer hands to operate) and were united under one of the first union organizers who's name was General Ludd. More colloquially it means one who has a difficult time or resists the implementation of NEW technologies because they introduce NEW procedures which are unfamiliar to the user.
Though, I do think you are right, they, the film makers are probably hypocrites. Reply
@Shadowdagger: I'm not a fan of the pseudo-environmentalists either, but there is such thing as too much of a good thing. In this movie people literally never go outside because they don't "have to". That can't be good.
Reply
@blackmarquet: Sorry about that. I shouldn't have generalize that term.
I know the history of luddism. But today people are calling themselves luddites who just loathe technology. My comment was directed to those kind of people. Reply
I know the history of luddism. But today people are calling themselves luddites who just loathe technology. My comment was directed to those kind of people. Reply
@cylon_conspiracy: Well, yes of course, I agree. But what disappoints me is that those movies are showing always the same thing over and over again: 1. fancy new technology 2. technology is used 3. technology starts to get out of control 4. technology baaad and destroying humankind
I'm just tired of this.
If they want to show a movie which should teach everybody to go outside more often beause it's healthier than sitting all days at the PC - then why not? But when they start to preach such stuff like "technology very baaad" and portraing all scientists as the Dr. Evil clones - I start to lose my patience. Reply
I'm just tired of this.
If they want to show a movie which should teach everybody to go outside more often beause it's healthier than sitting all days at the PC - then why not? But when they start to preach such stuff like "technology very baaad" and portraing all scientists as the Dr. Evil clones - I start to lose my patience. Reply
@Shadowdagger: I suppose so. There was a documentary called "Second Skin" that was about people who get obsessed with WOW-type games and showed the real ramifications of it. Way more effective than a fictional film.
Actually the Southpark episode where the whole gang stays indoors for weeks to win a WOW game is pretty effective too. "Make Love Not Warcraft".
[www.southparkstudios.com] Reply
Actually the Southpark episode where the whole gang stays indoors for weeks to win a WOW game is pretty effective too. "Make Love Not Warcraft".
[www.southparkstudios.com] Reply