Thread: Koyaanisquati

I would recommend "Home", it just got released today. It's the first full length movie released on Youtube.

It has some really beatiful scenery and a nice message.

http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

(Watch in HD and fullscreen)

Not available in my country apparently.

Originally Posted by ExoByte

Not available in my country apparently.

It's those commies trying to control what you watch.

They don't want to encourage environmentalism in such an industrial society.

(The video is clips, illustrating how humanity is destroying the Earth basically. It's very moving and powerful, absolutely no narration or spoken words, but the meaning is obvious.)

Try to get ahold of it somehow.

Although the quality is horrendous compared to the crystal-clear YouTube one, maybe this one will work for you:

Koyaanisquati - Google Videos

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

I would recommend "Home", it just got released today. It's the first full length movie released on Youtube.

It has some really beatiful scenery and a nice message.

http://www.youtube.com/homeproject

(Watch in HD and fullscreen)

Winwinwinwinwinwin.

I missed that before, saw the link but didn't click it. I haven't watched it yet (takes so FUCKING long to load the video), but from what I have seen it looks amazing.

Will watch very soon.

May even make a separate thread in here, just for that video.

It's Koyaanisqatsi ... sorry, bothered me .

I've seen it and I like it very much.

since humans are part of the collective known as "Earth", wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that the Earth is destroying itself?

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

since humans are part of the collective known as "Earth", wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that the Earth is destroying itself?

Substitute "Earth" with "Biosphere" and "destroying" with "adjusting" and I agree whole heartedly. Darwin wrote The Descent of Man 137 years ago. It's time we stick it's consequences in our subconscious minds.

On the other hand saying that an auto-immune disease is the body destroying itself is accurate. It's more constructive however to at least focus on what part of the body is doing it.

Originally Posted by Xaqaria

since humans are part of the collective known as "Earth", wouldn't it be more appropriate to say that the Earth is destroying itself?

If I may point out a similar scenario with the human body and cancer, there's a distinct difference between what's going on with the body as it dies to this disease as opposed to when the body is considered to be "eating itself" while in the throes of oxygen deprivation. It may be more appropriate to say that the Earth is being destroyed by it's own sort of cancer, a mutation (in our case an evolved species) of what used to be a species that remained in balance with the rest of the biosphere.

Originally Posted by Invader

If I may point out a similar scenario with the human body and cancer, there's a distinct difference between what's going on with the body as it dies to this disease as opposed to when the body is considered to be "eating itself" while in the throes of oxygen deprivation. It may be more appropriate to say that the Earth is being destroyed by it's own sort of cancer, a mutation (in our case an evolved species) of what used to be a species that remained in balance with the rest of the biosphere.

+1 WakaPoint to you, my good sir.