I was watching a starwars tv show recently that depicted a planet at the center of the Galaxy (“Coruscant”) which is a planet that is completely covered in one giant city.
The episode depicted two characters going to visit a sort of ‘park’ or monument which had the very highest peak on the planet poking out of a section of cement (surrounded in security railings and drones) about 3 meters, and one of the characters explained how that was the very last natural piece of the planet that is exposed, the rest is covered in city. One of the most disturbing things for me, is that in this depiction, the city planet was not depicted as the center of evil or the empire, no, it was shown as no more than a busy planet of democracy and bureaucracy, businessmen and industrialists, all just “trying to make a living” having achieved the construction of a ‘wonderful’ civilization.
Humans have even come up with a name for such an abomination. They call it an “Ecumenopolis” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis (a planet completely covered in one giant city). Considering it is a thing that has been given a name and is depicted in lofty starwars scifi scenes it almost seems as though some humans think such a thing is worth striving towards creating.
I feel that if we created such a thing it would be like creating a rock hard capsule that seals our heart and minds off from our soul. We would become vacant empty versions of humans, driven by perpetual superficialities.. living a pointless existence while patting ourselves on the back for how civilized we all are.
All I know is, if the time comes when human children end up “..on a concrete world..” “compensating for the lost connection to a living world with a burgeoning array of virtual substitutes” I hope I am not around to see it.
As for which star wars Character Trudeau would be best cast as, perhaps a random brainless droid or a mid level storm trooper? He seems to be nothing more than a glorified puppet with narcissism issues.
I was watching a starwars tv show recently that depicted a planet at the center of the Galaxy (“Coruscant”) which is a planet that is completely covered in one giant city.
The episode depicted two characters going to visit a sort of ‘park’ or monument which had the very highest peak on the planet poking out of a section of cement (surrounded in security railings and drones) about 3 meters, and one of the characters explained how that was the very last natural piece of the planet that is exposed, the rest is covered in city. One of the most disturbing things for me, is that in this depiction, the city planet was not depicted as the center of evil or the empire, no, it was shown as no more than a busy planet of democracy and bureaucracy, businessmen and industrialists, all just “trying to make a living” having achieved the construction of a ‘wonderful’ civilization.
The story glossed over that abhorrent depiction in a sort of trivial way, but I found it to be very chilling and it made me think of this essay : https://charleseisenstein.substack.com/p/how-the-environmental-movement-can .
Humans have even come up with a name for such an abomination. They call it an “Ecumenopolis” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenopolis (a planet completely covered in one giant city). Considering it is a thing that has been given a name and is depicted in lofty starwars scifi scenes it almost seems as though some humans think such a thing is worth striving towards creating.
I feel that if we created such a thing it would be like creating a rock hard capsule that seals our heart and minds off from our soul. We would become vacant empty versions of humans, driven by perpetual superficialities.. living a pointless existence while patting ourselves on the back for how civilized we all are.
All I know is, if the time comes when human children end up “..on a concrete world..” “compensating for the lost connection to a living world with a burgeoning array of virtual substitutes” I hope I am not around to see it.
As for which star wars Character Trudeau would be best cast as, perhaps a random brainless droid or a mid level storm trooper? He seems to be nothing more than a glorified puppet with narcissism issues.