It’s victim and judge paradox described by Theodore Adorno, 1951 Minima Moralia: Reflections for Damaged Life: This is, of course, the way capitalism works. Bring in the dozer, there’s a food shortage anyway. The world (or at least NYC) has turned to cannibalism as a way to feed the masses, and the corportacracy that is Harrison’s version of Late Capitalism controls the meat grinders. The point of the movie is that cannibalism is taboo, but cannibalism happens, it’s how people survive, people fight over green crackers made of humanįlesh. Robson (Sol) is remembering the old days while Charlton Heston (Detective Thorn) eats a human.
From sexism, to soy-based food production, to police states, and privatized everything, we’re head ed in a very Soylent direction. Soylent Green shows a very realistic future. In 1966, author Harry Harrison’s novel Make Room! Make Room! (the basis for the movie) took a swing for what 2022 might look like. In 2021, Earth is overpopulating and polluted natural resources are dwindling, 1 on 8 people on the planet go hungry every day, food monopolies like Monsanto control the means of production for 8-% of farm ing activities, scientist are exploring cricket protein and kelp to keep up with the growing population’s nutrition requirements.
“In 2022, Earth is overpopulated and totally polluted the natural re sources have been exhausted and the nourishment of the population is provided by Soylent Industries, a company that makes a food consisting of plankton from the oceans.”Īnd here is a summary of Late Capitalism: The on-screen preamble for Soylent Green: Greenberg (screenplay), Harry Harrison (novel) Stars: Charlton Heston, Edward G. IMDB Synopsis: In the world ravaged by the greenhouse effect and overpopulation, an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a big company CEO.
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