and doing the kinds of things that need to be done to spend all the wind fall of money they're making from the huge european appetite for alger and hydrocarbons in the context of the ukraine war. and our tech submission in ramallah is showcasing the work of the 31 year old palestinian journalist who was placed under house arrest by his really authorities long ago. she says that despite her movements being restricted, she's found or liberated and have some video from the consumers who do the palm before we swear to do well as to let you labrador band to same decision and enjoy loving the lessons model of their emotional dilation. bates based on that and then we go, let's do jen, how, what is optima in the national free basic decision where that can succeed model if mr. henry, you telling me has to be know i'm going to put a home and then the other because i haven't had a cookie for you. the head start. i've been, was that the last one is tomorrow and how you as an if did all the what the heck

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exposing societies doc award winning intense investigation. the get compelling insights into humanity open until the stories from asia were in the pacific one. 0 one east on. i'll just see around the i think people taking the end of time for what is actually the end of time. the digital media environment is very, very different from the analog wants. it went before think of the way clocks used to be a clock was a big round thing with the 2nd hand that went slowly around. it had a narrative arc to it. almost. if you watch the clock, oh, it's a new minute, you know, and it's come around, compare that to a digital clock which is wait for

a minute. there's no sense of the passage of time. we no longer have an organizing narrative. people are so desperate for an organizing story that they would rather believe that everything is going to end. now in a fiery apocalypse, then that it's going to somehow just keep on going that we're going to stay in this perpetual. now the was include to every scene combs with the the the

high, are you doing scrolling, hubbard, texting a friend, you minutes to say hello. i'm known for something called theme scrolling reminders, which were a tweets that i was manually writing and sending out of the starting at the beginning of the pen demik around april 2020, telling myself not to look at my phone. do scrolling is very specifically the act of looking at your phone with the initial search for information and then being sucked in to information that is non productive and also you lose track of time. and then you also, the utility of the information that you're receiving becomes smaller and smaller.

you get sucked into petty arguments, armchair analysis. the time it can be tempting to do school and use more time than you expected. is there an email you need to send food, you having you caught me doing scrolling? i didn't scroll so much. i've been trying to like, not do it, but it's hard not to. it makes me feel like i'm losing my mind when i come out of it and it's like 3 hours later and i'm like, what just happened? i soon scroll and it's more so like, i'm in a trance. i have no conception of anything that's around me in my physical and then i kind of like look up around move. my phone number is oh, nice aside not to be like okay, i'm to wash dishes. let me find a long form video to watch, just like to talk has

a 10 minute video feature now. so i just listen to people talking to me like we just washed the dishes. the during the initial year of the pen to make people were doing ridiculous things like buying huge amounts of stuff online, trying to over exercises within their apartments that and so for a lot of people, the easiest thing that they could have done was just stay up late and scroll on their thoughts because that felt like that was something within their control the . there is absolutely a pervasive,

fully unhealthy relationship that many people have with technology and information . and i don't think that's necessarily their fault. many social platforms are leveraging our attention in ways that facilitate this circumstance. the people across from all over the world. central india, underwhelming monsoon, did el nino currents and failed to bring relief from the gateways. london, i'm seeing roughly a doubling of tents and make shift shelters popping up and parks and public spaces over the last 6 months. it just has a little things that you see on the corner of your eye that adds the overall feeling and things spiraling down. do you miss the rise of anxiety when your confronted with the reality of living in a corrupt, dysfunctional civilization?

that is at odds with the natural world. you have taken some form of step towards awareness, the last spokesperson for the apocalypse, that i will never hear the end of it up like where they may end up to. and it feels really like a huge combination of like every bad thing that's ever happened happening at once, right. in front of you. that feeling that kind of feeling of like, uh, world war 3 is coming years. you know something, something bad turn the corner. i definitely definitely have that in the back of my mind. we live in such a weird time where we can see what's actually happening to people on our phones. it's not like, oh you're hearing this, you're hearing that you're watching videos the

when the you crean invasion happened. i spent several hours reading about how poorly russia had maintained its military based on photographic analysis of the wheels. it's one thing to know that ukraine is severely being affected. most people don't need to know about how to analyze photographs of tanks and lack of tire maintenance among the russian military. like those kinds of levels. the climate change wars, natural disasters, the economy, those bags. you can essentially read a page, these bases on each of those topics on a daily basis and never get to the bottom of it and feel completely overwhelmed. and lots of agency in response wilson to sign period. london's 1st cyberspace cafe and stupid cafeteria, joining billions of others hitting down the road towards the information

superhighway. the internet gave us new possibilities. you know it open the door to start thinking about living and working in a more peer to peer fashion. in order to foster a new kind of human culture coolant. very exciting. and i mean like to make one day when we gave the internet to people in the late eighty's early ninety's, it unleashed all sorts of creativity, a new possibilities. all it's going to be tremendous, says the dreams that we've had in the past all being able to access what's called the information superhighway and perhaps do our shopping house on, on the information superhighway. do some banking perhaps. what happened though was once business people saw how exciting this, this internet was, they started to think about, well, how do we make money off this thing? the past, all these already own into profit from this new wage. so in order to increase the

probability of very particular money making outcomes on the net, we took these technologies and turn them from tools that unleashed wild possibilities to tools that we used on people to make them behave more predictable . if you're not the customer, you're the product. um, but we're more than that. where, where's the labor force? right? well that's, we are working for just social media company. when we dutifully enter in all our stuff and give them all our data, think of how you feel when you get off the internet, you're exhausted, that's work and it's not exhilarating, it's, it is labor so that really, they're just looking for different ways to monetize any single human behavior and then sell that back to us as some form of them. power? no, no, no, i don't have the name and most of the model, but the more about that, more of the again, the bottom of the more of a pop was the, with the most common thing i said was, hi, are you doing scrolling?

it made people feel presence again and themselves made them a little bit more aware of. maybe they had been on their phones for a long time. they would often encourage people to take walks or do offline activities. or there is very little guidance on what people can do, how it personally affects their lives, what they do, and do not need to know that is essential. and then also what people are doing in response to try to make those things less for a fake and do is day like. and i think that is a real issue with not only the media industry, but also forces that benefit from that chaos or that feeling of chaos among the general public. the. there are lots of people who have already felt a radical shift in their communities or countries. and even if you're in 1st world

lights, or in a privileged place, you could go most days and not really encountered whatsoever. get in 2017. i was reaching kind of a peak where my collapse awareness made me want to have a broader, more intimate conversation with anyone. some of that probably was its own form of kind of romanticize in time that i'm in the, the time that i am alive wanting it to be interesting. but, and i don't think especially the case anymore. i think we are an interesting times as the the collab separated is a online discussion for him. it's based in a larger platform called read it. there's about close to $500000.00 subscribers. a

been a moderator for the last 4 years. the conversation is focused on the notion of collapse, which is defined as a radical reduction in population or complexity across multiple systems for a significant period in a relatively quick range of time. the teams current capital of the internet. i was interviewed for the journalist who wrote the article that called it that, i mean he pulled it from the through. it was already a notion, but i think a lot of people missed the points. the, the whisper on the wind is that your things separately. and mentally the, the other thing is it seems like humanity is a bit start for it. it relationships with in the reaction to that

is to then this loud speaker appears within culture and people that are trying to point the spotlight in that direction. that i had a single encounter with some billionaire doomsday peppers. you know, where i thought i was going to be giving a talk on the future, you know, digital technology. and it was just 5 tech bros who wanted advice on their bunkers, where to put them how to maintain control of their security fours. whether i thought they were reasonable plans or not, but it set me on a journey not to research billionaire peppers and their underground layers, but rather how did the wealthiest most powerful people in the world today come to believe that it's all ending? there's an obvious subset of the technology who will just be leveraging their wealth and an individualistic way to try to insight themselves even further. i know

people personally who left the states specifically to go to new zealand because it sounded like on file refuge. the, i think there is part of this sort of conflict of human consciousness that thinks of new zealand is a place that safe in the world from bible 3. or if you look at a bunch of different post apocalyptic fiction business place that's considered as maybe the saving grace of humanity, the having grown up around here in queenstown. i already had sort of associated

economic interest in how is changing i mean in 2017, this journalist douglas rush, cause i wrote a piece talking about conversations he'd had with well, the powerful people in silicon valley in particular about the way they were thinking about new zealand as a place to escape to in the case of tuesday, essentially from that there were emerged, reports on individuals and companies sort of saying, yeah, that's true. i've seen a bunch of there were companies that sell survival bunkers saying they'd ships them here. so they kind of spared a conversation with the new zealand. i developed a documentary trying to answer the question of whether there were survival bunkers here or no the, the doomsday. people coming here to survive the will across the lips. yeah, it's

a usual topic that sucks are leaving now. and again, the previous loss. as an engineer, i got a few calls about whether this actually occurs or not. no fun cause in the, in the, in the back sort of question. or put it as an even mess i think is count. so we've never seen anything come across se, asking for permission to put one in. but i mean, your thing is that something you actually ask permission for. it's out there, but we embrace on lots of people in the com who is a european businessman. he bought a property out of queens. somebody has this parts from last year where the star is a picture of his property and the location looks very much like why and are preserved to me. and then he's got the solar panels down. the bottom minnes caption is really for world war 3, within a nuclear. somebody beside it. that's the heli pads. oh, the fusion of rolls royce,

rolling through every time i roll up here, i'm worried something's going to run out of the gatehouse. romance of me. i've spoken with people who is excavated and built the properties here, and they've talked about significant underground structures. this is the scenes or i guess of the conversation about the kinds of properties that are being built. we realize the survival bunker is secret on purpose in the building is don't want to be accessible. they're worried about economic clips leading to a society of people. essentially, they're worried that as their neighbors are going to turn on them, these are the people that are perpetuating or current you cannot make system, profiting from it. and then preparing for its collapse, in spite of the impact that we have on everyone else in the world.

the most simply, the mindset is the idea that with more technology, you can solve the problems of the last technology and make more money. and doing so, this idea that you can somehow escape from the problems you are creating by doing what you're already doing faster. and that's the basic rule of capitalism. it's a race that ultimately doesn't work because it turns out the real world kind of is limited. the long mask, just like the brightest minds in the world. like how much would it cost in world $100.00 and they actually did the math. they like took it seriously. they sit down and see it was $6000000000.00 we could like really interest this problem. he never

did that. he said like, tell me how much know do it in state. he spent $44000000000.00 on twitter. i mean like most parts of port elliptic fiction. that's what it's trying to get hired on this, like when you strip away all the conveniences of our lives. like who are we really what we're talking about here with billy and e as in via priorities and how they are preparing for an end of days. it's a similar thing, isn't it? that sort of reveals who they are, what their priorities are, and what they do with the power and wealth that they have. by the end of it, i didn't really care if people head of survival bunk underneath their properties because i did find it to be true that they were treating you still in itself as the bunker the landscape of clean sounds changed considerably well said, but he needs coming in more money is coming in sweets of shots. i suppose it's safe place to come to the play space. if something does go wrong in the world,

i think we've got bush x rays, i think with these more resources and opportunities up out in the forest from the hope anything could happen in this country. right. so as a key we were pretty well clear say pick up and go somebody. yeah. if we have to. yeah. so the volume is gonna have the bank, cuz then we'll get bush just basically in the summer, even if they have been cuz it's a ridiculous strategy because i mean, at some point you've got to come out and it, by that point, you have alienated yourself from the community that will remain here when you need more food, if you get sick, you know, if you need some company, it's easy to point out. the kind of installation is tendencies of the billionaire class. we can see that and go, that's ridiculous when something like kogan depend, demik happens, we all start to see with, where's that tendency in ourselves?

we start to think about other human beings, the way that tech pros do. oh, here. dirty are contaminated and scary. i need to insulate myself from them when people start thinking about like prepping, if they're like tech bros. they think how much do do i have in my basement? how long can i'll ask them? do i have a gun to keep my neighbor's house? you can talk to any real pepper and they'll tell you the 1st thing you think about is, what are the other people on my block doing? they know that you can't prep a lot we, we're very interested by all these printers movements in the us. and we've got to discover these survival environments and friends and what we like to body to was not as hard as us. we found out like people who are more focusing on know to me. and that they believe that's what the, what the could be. the solution to react with more trust facing like, you know,

what we call a break of so not much what we called the pessimists side. actually they bring solutions. so they're nice people, they're not like people who like hiding in their printers. and that's actually the exact opposite it's, they're more about sharing this, the spirit of communities very important as well. so we believes that the group is stronger than not people aren't working on the excuse that the united states. but the more that the people to know the level of these, um people who need to do the check. yeah. big. now i see the here, i see 2 national so that the 2005 the don't we,

we'll move you to be able to law. we're not gonna do that. you get to care about every body we're all of is the good stuff. not a bad thing, it's a good thing. right. but that's really hard for a lot of us because then using, oh my god, you mean my fate is dependent on this on the health of the planet? yes, you, my fate is dependent on your faith. yes. read it is a community in but only in the sense or extent, tuition online community can be for community occurs in actual relationships and people living systems, places that they're in their species going every day where losing species you know, it's like you can't get much clearer than that, i think amenities as 30 will off

a cliff and our ability to collectively proactively respond to that is, is pretty know the loss of hope is not necessitate apathy, an action or an active as of, as they are framing its fun. loses hope, that doesn't mean one stops taking action. to suggest that would mean that all action can only come from hope, which has been found that even at 1st glance, little on a deeper analysis, it's a, it's a great time i think, to accrue the understanding and skills so that we can move forward or into this transitionary phase, there's just so much distraction and i know people need escapes from that to not just walk off cliff. it's ok to embrace the beauty of this experience to a lot of times i feel so obligated to do something about climate change. and then i feel like if i'm, if i'm just writing books or giving talks or helping people experience all them, i'm like that the band on the deck of the titanic planning as it goes down. but

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