Well Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is visually stunning and good fun, but couldn't help see the darker size.
This land that they are tearing up is a sacred land full of spirits, ancestors, song-lines and meaning.
Contrast that with the morally corrupt nihilism of the white man.
You see the same thing in America and across the New World. well we know the New World began with a genocide of the Old World people and their culture and the theft of their land. I wonder whether this crime is what drives the schism between the Europeans of the New World and the Land. They know they do not belong. Is this not what comes out in the hopelessness, meaninglessness and nihilism of Mad Max? And more broadly New World Capitalism in general. People of the New World no not belong and must keep searching forever for the next bit of gold. Dementus admits to the hedonistic treadmill at the end (I'll need get that quote). So perhaps the cure for the New World (and Capitalism) is the admit they stole the land and do not belong, admit they committed a vast genocide and then perhaps they can start to slow down and stop running, grow roots and stop tearing the world up.
This actually feeds into all the modern American nonsense like anti-racism, feminism and gender fluidity. Alienation from your land is like alienation from your body. People who do not belong to their land, do not belong to their bodies. And now you get the nonsense. Women ignoring their role in childbirth and wanting jobs instead. Men wanting to be women. And people from one country wanting to live in another. I mean all this is fine, but when you give up one you need make a home in the other. And if the problem is an ability to make a home then no amount of changing and migrating can solve that. Migrating from one part of the world to another is no different from migrating from one gender to another or one sex to another or one social role to another. It is all the same New World sickness.
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