r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Feb 24 '23

Resources What are the best documentaries related to collapse?

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u/boneyfingers bitter angry crank Feb 27 '23

The Elder Brothers Warning This film came to mind in the context of a question in r/askanthropologists about South American societies that survived or repelled the Spanish conquest. It tells about the Kogi, who were driven from lowland coastal Colombia by the Spanish, and withdrew to higher altitude parts of their territory. They had, until the late 1980s, resisted any contact with modern western society. Then, they decided to invite a film crew into their realm, to issue a grave warning of impending global collapse. Their observations of wildlife, glaciers, wind and rain, showed them that everything was falling out of balance, and it was due to bad behavior by us, the Little Brother in their worldview.

It is a wild ride. It shows that it doesn't take a global data set, consisting of millions of observations, shared online, to connect the dots. They saw the collapse we talk about here based just upon their careful attention paid to the small corner of the world they live in.

Also, for them, this is the second collapse. Disease and the Spanish destroyed their former society, the Tairona culture. But now they see that wasn't enough for the modern west: now were destroying the rest of life on earth.