• Jeff Moden (11/28/2016)


    As for the food, anyone remember this old movie?

    https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=soylent+green

    I think that one of the taglines from that movie hit the reason for our demise pretty much on the head...

    "It's the year 2022... People are still the same. They'll do anything to get what they need."

    I'll add "or want" to that.

    I think I would just change "need" to "want", rather than keeping "need", because there are a lot of politicians, lawyers, and executives out there who need a good kicking and will do anything to avoid getting what they need.

    I remember being somewhat disappointed by the movie 43 years ago; it was not as good as the book on which it was rather loosely based (bHarry Harrrison's "Make Room, Make Room", published 50 years ago). At the time one reviewer said that the only thing the script writer hadn't thrown away was "soylent steak" and even that he had changed to "soylent green", but that was an exaggeration. Overpopulation and its consequences was the theme of another famous novel 2 years later (John Brunner's "Stand on Zanzibar"). Both those (very different) novels predicted a pretty miserable world as the result of overpopulation, greater gaps between rich and poor, people wanting something for nothing, and much of the mess we have today.

    Tom