re: the movie “Don’t Look Up”

I think it has a similar sensibility to the 1976 film “Network.” That movie is among the cultural phenomena (going all the way back to the 1919 Yeats poem “The Second Coming”) that are iconic for the same reason: They reflect how the social reality of modern mass society is insane. “Things fall apart. The center cannot hold. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” For no particular rhyme or reason the dynamics of what we confront re: social forces, cultural forces, politics, technology, ecology are chaotic. There’s no effective “we.” The human race can’t act as a collective. The people of a country like the United States can’t act as a collective. Like: most of where my tax dollars go is anathema to me. I have no say about it. It’s a mess.

https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/345-winter-1995/catching-fish-in-chaotic-waters/

Happy New Year.