WE HAVE A WONDERFUL JOB THESE DAYS...
By Mauro Marturano
...which is to look, to observe life with extreme curiosity. And also to use the tools that the clique has given us for this purpose, like Hollywood 😁 (in this particular case, In Time).
I have talked to you about this film before, a true economic and social masterpiece. In this film, people do not grow old. Everything is paid for with time, and you die of a heart attack when your time runs out.
Society is divided into two areas. One where people have practically infinite amounts of time and therefore do not die. And another one, the ghetto, where people work to earn time and die constantly because price increases, measured in time, are deliberately managed so that there is no overpopulation and, also, no risk of civil conflict (since people are busy working to earn time and stay alive).
This society is also controlled by the timekeepers, who maintain order by managing the time in the ghetto and, when necessary, taking it away.
A young man from the ghetto manages to escape into the wealthy area and, with the help of the daughter of a time banker, eventually makes his way back to the ghetto and gives the stolen infinite time to the entire population.
And what happens when the entire population is given time?
The system collapses.
It seems... it seems 😂... that the system needs a difference in potential in order to function.
It is not possible for a system to function if everyone is wealthy.
And this is a hypothesis that should absolutely be considered valid. Even as a possible explanation for our present, which, at least in our part of the world, is made up of time (money) being given away, subsidies for not working, and all sorts of things that have moved people away from knowing how to do things for themselves and have therefore brought us closer to collapse.
One truly extraordinary scene is the one in which the population, having just received what is essentially immortality (infinite time), stops working, and the timekeepers, who in no way appear to be unempathetic people, decide to go home.
From the way they behave, you get the feeling that they think their job is finished and that they are expecting the worst.
In other words, the message seems to be that the worst thing is not the enormous difference between rich and poor, nor the injustices between the two parts of the world, but rather the absence of a difference in potential — and the collapse caused by the fact that, if everyone does nothing, nothing has any value anymore.
An interesting perspective which, in my opinion, contains a great deal of truth.
Difficult to accept? Perhaps.
But, in my opinion, there is a tremendous amount of truth in it.
Which, obviously, I do not expect everyone else to share.
CONTINUING THE WONDERFUL 😂 WRITING FROM THIS MORNING
I call it wonderful because Ito's philosophy, the logic behind what he perceives, and his observation of the details are truly extraordinary 😁😂.
As you can see in the short video I am attaching (https://youtu.be/e5xkqeIqz-8?si=BhanAtnnA12R4Qnr) , when time is given to everyone in the ghetto, the timekeepers realize that the damage has already been done. They lay down their weapons... and go home.
In other words, the moment the idea takes root among the population that there is no longer any need to work, the system is already collapsing. And there is nothing that can be done.
Collapse is the point of no return, the point I have always described as the moment when money (time, in the film) can no longer meet goods, because if everyone, or a large enough number of people, stops working (or simply moves paper around), there can be no goods.
It is the concept of the island full of money but with no goods, where money therefore has no value.
"Our" guardians are doing everything they can to avoid reaching that point. Because that point is probably the point at which 95–96% of people would simply become what they actually are: animals. In this case, meaning living according to the laws of the jungle.
Then there is the 4–5% of more evolved animals — those who retain the basic traits of animals but combine them with the use of intellect.
As long as we see chaos in life, as long as we see attempts to destroy paper (time), as long as we see attempts to restore a balance between money and goods that is completely out of control, it means that the guardians have not yet given up.
The moment they lay down their weapons...
that will be the moment to start worrying.
That will be the moment we enter the hard landing.