DIRECT: Out of the ashes, 2024 | Rupert Read

[@-LightningRod-]

Thank YOU for making the effort

[@compostjohn]

This is VERY good - I didn't see it the first time around. Franny goes up a notch, if that were possible, as my all-time favourite film-maker. Bravo both of you, and all involved. If it gets a few more folks energised and involved, that's great.

[@martynpick1979]

Really enjoyed working with Franny and Rupert on this....

[@em945]

Thank you for your efforts, Rupert. Regeneration of all landscapes

[@mrrecluse7002]

We still don't have the slightest idea of how to actually, and socially unite, at scale, to collectively respond, to our 'Overshoot.' We are still in the same emotional survival mode, as when we lived in caves. Despite our complex brains, we're just another animal, doing what an animal does. This is what we are up against. Abject, rock bottom humility, and a corresponding cooperative consciousness, eludes us. All of this should be understood as the universal narrative of our species, among all 'naked apes.'

[@laurencevanhelsuwe3052]

You've understood one of the most fundamental obstacles.. but there are many others. There's a whole spectrum of really hard, nah, impossible problems. In combination they ensure that we (the masses, we're not talking about the elites who are getting prepping to survive virtually anything) won't make it.

[@sharonhall1909]

Thank you for this video. The Doomsday Clock says we're at 90 seconds to midnight. I think we are at 5 minutes after midnight. Wishing everyone a soft landing.

[@buddyneher9359]

I always thought "midnight" was nuclear war. We're not 5 minutes after that, thank God.

[@jimthain8777]

@@buddyneher9359 In this context "midnight" means the end of this civilization. That's something that can happen very quickly, or very slowly, that's part of what is still to play for. The faster we bring about the end, the more it hurts. So we're about to find out how masochistic we really are. The sadists, like a certain president I won't name, (mostly because he's one of many all the same), would have us end it quick and dirty. The rest of us have to decide if we agree with them or if we want something a little less drastic.

[@timveromusic875]

I wrote this song a few years ago before they re-adjusted the clock to 90 seconds, I think it’s about the right timing now😮 kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZyro4KGbL99jZosi=zYC5hRGJEth_3etG

[@TennesseeJed]

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[@NoMoreVoxPops]

"I'm Alright Jack" ============== The human condition means that most ordinary people won't change their habits of a lifetime until such time that their individual experiential circumstances change or are impacted for the worse. The trigger for change is pain, amd lots of it!

[@timveromusic875]

Thanks for reminding me of my dad who’s most quoted saying was “Bugger you Jack ,I’m ok” when he was discussing all that was wrong with the world. Your comment is spot on by the way.

[@NoMoreVoxPops]

​​@@timveromusic875 It's simply been my experience of people in general, including my ex father in particular too. I cant think of any other way to summarise it all. In my little verse, I take the title, "I'm Alright Jack" from the 50's social commentary film of the same name starring Peter Sellers and Terry Thomas et al., Whatever, it's depressing representation of billions of ordinary people and wealthy alike. Until that complacency can be overcome, we are doomed.

[@andrewnelson3681]

“Let’s rebuild what’s worth rebuilding” Who gets to decide that? Ahh, yes of course, it will be the Politbureau.

[@jimthain8777]

It will be the survivors. Whoever they may be. Don't kid yourself, that could be a prehistoric tribe from the Andaman islands. At this point they know a lot more about surviving without civilization to baby them than all 8 billion of us put together.