This afternoon I watched a film called Thrive, and I’m providing the link here, not so much because I think it’s an amazing film that will change the world, but because I’m left with mixed feelings and would like to hear what other people think about it.
Torus
I agree with what I think was the basic premise – that we live in a world of infinite potential and just by opening our minds a bit we could end poverty and war and a lot of diseases and free ourselves from the drudgery of the universal 9 to 5.
I was glad that at one point he (Foster Gamble, which sounds like a comic book billionaire, and he kind of fits that mold, being a Gamble as in Proctor and Gamble) mentioned Buckminster Fuller, who talked about an economy of abundance way back in the ’30s, but only briefly and in the part where he was talking about tetrahedrons and the magical power of 8×8=64, how that’s in our DNA and the I Ching and all sorts of other ancient stuff.
He also talked about aliens and crop circles, which I’d thought were pretty much totally debunked, but there are still believers out there and he gave some pretty cool examples.
He talked about a shape called a Torus, which looks like a particularly fat donut, being the magical shape through which all the energy of the universe flows and there were some hokey effects where it was inserted into the scene whenever he was sitting there talking to somebody.
But, if he’d stopped there, I’d be raving about this film and how cool it was. After that, he basically got into every conspiracy theory known to mankind. FEMA detention camps, RFID chips, the all seeing eye on the dollar bill and the CBS logo, the Illuminati, the Bilderberg Group, the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers and 4 or 5 other families, the Federal Reserve (he really had it in for the Federal Reserve, I kind of suspect he voted for Ron Paul), the New World Order, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, how a cure for cancer was found in the 1920s but suppressed, how Tesla discovered how to give the world unlimited energy but was destroyed by J.P. Morgan, eugenics, and much, much more. You name it, it was there.
Not the Elders of Zion stuff, though, he specifically said it wasn’t a bunch of Jews running the world. I give him credit for that.
It was all a bit overwhelming and then there was an appeal for donations at the end, which always makes me a bit suspicious, but the thing is, he made a pretty good case.
So, watch it when you’ve got the time and let me know what you think.
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I loved it, even more than the Zeitgeist films. Watching it I got this feeling of despair and hopelessness which turned completely around toward the end, and then left me feeling empowered and encouraged. I say kudos to Foster, with the small caveat that his meanderings into crop circles and conspiracy theories might alienate (get it? ALIEN-ate?) some who might otherwise have embraced it.