"Originally subbed to the 352x288, 24.832 fps, 416 MB VHS-rip." "Suggested font and font size:" "Arial 16" "The consumption society... have destroyed the environment." "Exterminated millions of animal and plant species." "Poisoned the oceans... the rivers and the lakes." "Polluted the air... and filled the atmosphere with carbon dioxide and other harmful gases." "It has eroded the ozone layer." "Exploited the deposits of oil, coal and natural gas... and enormous amounts of minerals." "They have deforested our woods and destroyed their own." "What was left for us?" "Under-development, poverty... dependence on others, lagging behind... debts and doubt." "For the super-developed countries... the problem is not growth... but distribution." "Not only distribution among themselves... but among us all." "The stable progress that everyone is talking about is impossible... without a fairer distribution among all countries." "Humanity is after all one big family... in which all of us share the same fate." "With today's deep crisis as background, we're moving towards an even worse future... in which we'll never get a solution... to the economic, social and ecologic tragedies... of a world that's becoming more difficult to control." "Something has to be done to save mankind!" "A better world is possible!" "Property damage, property destruction." "Those who come here to demonstrate peacefully couldn't do it... because of individuals that exercise professional violence." "Property damage is not violence." "You can't violate a building or a window or something like that." "It's very different to us than convention of violence." "That isn't violent unless you're advocating attacking of individuals, which we do not do." "Police -- murderers!" "The elite class was sort of panicking, you know, after Seattle especially." "So they sort of were looking for the reason." "And the only name you can point at was John Zerzan's." "If you're looking for a mind behind the movement it's definitely John Zerzan." "He has written this one book, basically saying that:" "In order to save the world we have to go back to Stone Age." "And the way to get there is to destroy the industries and everything." "I find it kind of curious or strange that I've been called... the architect of the tactic of property damage or the black bloc kind of activity." "That certainly isn't true." "Zerzan lives a very, very modest life, and for example:" "For a long time, his only income... he was making money by giving his own blood." "We're trying to encourage the questioning." "Just the questioning." "That isn't mindless violence." "The mindlessness is sitting there doing dope, watching MTV... and then you go and get a job and just slop along." "To me, that's violent." "There more and more signs, everywhere... that the life of consumerism is really not a satisfying life." "We can not let the terrorists achieve the objective of... frightening our nation to the point where we don't... where people don't shop." "Where people don't shop." "The will to consume terrorizes you." "We're terrorized into being consumers." "We have the freedom to choose between brand A and brand B and brand C." "That's about it for freedom." "We can not let the terrorists achieve the objective of... frightening our nation to the point where we don't... where we don't conduct business." "Where people don't shop." "Yeah, I think there's to much stuff." "To constantly work and constantly consume... it's madness!" "It's destroying everything and it has to go!" "I see very little that's worth preserving." "I see no value or health in maintaining the system." "And to get all there things it is a matter of coercion after all." "People are forced to be in the mines and on the assembly lines." "And without that, without these things, we'd not have all these stuff." "We'd not have a world of things that we're supposed to strive after all of our lives." "I don't think there's anyone who seriously embraces it." "The inertia carries it forward." "It has to be stopped, it has to be destroyed!" "They wander on the streets... and are constantly exposed to the advertisements' poison... which gives dreams, illusions... and an urge about impossible consumption." "We will have a new world." "Where people don't shop." "We will have a new world." "Where people don't shop." "The will to consume terrorizes you." "You know that, I think the young people today... don't have any future." "I think everybody in the world now can feel... can feel the power of these large multi-national corporations... who are really starting to rule the world." "These large multi-national corporations, spending $400 billions a year... trying to sell us fast-food and cars." "And of course that has a huge, huge impact on us." "The 30 second television spot is, I think, the most powerful piece of communication... that human beings have ever come up with." "You... are sitting there in your chair... passive, nothing to say, and outside there's smart people... who are producing fantastic television shows and commercials." "They are the powerful producers of information and producers of meaning." "And you are a passive consumer of that meaning." "And that meaning isn't even good meaning, it's mostly propaganda for consumer culture." "Then you think that happiness means to buy more and more, and at Christmas time especially." ""Let's go out to the mall..."" ""...and really, really buy stuff, you know!"" "The customer can choose body type and head type, first of all." "Then they choose the color of the skin... the kind of make-up, including the lip color and... how much eye shadow and how much eye liner." "They choose the eye color, the hair color, the hair style." "So, you know, fingernails." "Pretty much everything." "They can pick exactly what they want." "Well, the difference between our dolls and most love dolls, you see... are fairly obvious when you look at our dolls." "You know, we're using like Hollywood special effects type techniques to make these dolls." "If we go in here I can show you five of them." "This is head type number 3." "It goes with certain bodies, so different heads will match different bodies." "This is head type number 2." "This is head type 6." "She doesn't have any hair at the moment, but this is another head." "Head 7." "This is head 4 and head 8." "You know, we just came out with the male doll." "And here's one of the male bodies." "He doesn't have his piece yet, but..." "You look over there in the corner there's one." "He's supposed to be bald." "This is a body type 5." "This is a petit body with a very large breast size." "This is one of the newer bodies that we have." "This is body type number 2... which is also petit with a little more smaller on the breasts." "But you know there's still a nice size." "This is body type 4 which is petit with very small breast size." "And this another number 2." "This is number 1, which is much taller than the other bodies we've been looking at." "This one is like a supermodel type body, very tall and thin for that type of taste." "They're not cheap, you know." "Each is a lot of work and some very expensive materials... so, you're looking at anywhere between 6,000 to 7,000 dollars, really... depending on bodies, and if it's female or male." "You see that the breasts are soft." "They're filled with softer silicone... so they feel much softer than the rest of the body." "It's one of the selling features that seems to interest people." "...GNP one percent..." "People are told that the modern technological future is empowering people... is bringing people closer together, is giving them a great access to... variety..." "I remember that as a child we were told that technology would free people." "They wouldn't have to be working so much." "Well, I travel around overhear conversations all the time from people saying:" ""I've got my beeper, I've got my cell phone..."" ""..." "I can't get away from work at all."" "Even, if commuting or at home, people are on this kind of electronic leash with all these new devices." "They're less and less separate from work and technology." "...one percent..." "...how we support Bluetooth, how we support 3G..." "It will be possible to stay at home and do your job and just... video-conference with your fellow workers." "The computer I think is going to the very best tool... for letting people socialize with each other." "This is certainly a tool that can bring people together... more than isolate them." "I think modern technology favors distancing over closeness... efficiency over playfulness." "Distancing over closeness." "Efficiency over playfulness." "...half percent of global GNP..." "Distancing over closeness." "Efficiency over playfulness." "Distancing over closeness." "Efficiency over playfulness." "Variety..." "I'd like to see a gigantic project of dismantling... of just getting rid of all this stuff, of tearing up the freeways and the roads... and just getting rid of all this stuff that... wrests on the destruction of nature, that separate us from the natural world... that has people on this treadmill to constantly work and constantly consume." "It's madness!" "It's destroying everything and it has to go!" "The average North American consumes five times more than a Mexican... ten times more than a Chinese person... and thirty times more than a person from India." "Ten..." "Developers, developers... nine..." "I think everybody in the world now can feel... eight... feel the power of these large multi-national corporations." "Many of these companies are much more powerful than even governments." "Developers, developers... seven..." "The first world..." "six..." "We are 20 percent of the people of the world." "And yet we are consuming 80 percent of the world's resources." "This level of consumption is simply not sustainable." "If we continue to consume at this kind of rate... then eventually I think we're going to hit the wall." "five..." "If we are so stupid that we don't listen... four... to the early warning signals that the planet is sending us... three..." "that is going to be a terrible time in history... that may take hundreds of years before the planets heals again." "two..." "Developers, developers..." "Yes!" "There'll be a global economic collapse." "one..." "There'll be a global economic collapse." "zero." "Ignition." "Lift-off!" "What crap!" "It's offending to see so many of the world's leaders with a behavior like this... when their economic models are collapsing like card houses." "Cuba does not encourage consumerism!" "Long live socialism!" "The mother country or death!" "We shall prevail!" "Save!" "Consume only what you need!" "You have a ration card with all the things you can get from the bodega." "This is rice, this is beans, this is oil -- cooking oil, of course ... sugar, soap -- washing soap -- and it might also be tooth paste." "You can have everything." "This is meat, this is bread." "You see, we have a daily bread." "Every single day, every single month." "January, February, March..." "So, this is what it is." "You have this card and you go to the bodega, you put it on... and every month they give you the quota..." "I mean the amount that you'll have according to the ration system." "I think it's a very good system to make everyone have at least their basic needs covered." "Long live Fidel!" "The word goes to out highest leader:" "Highest commander, Fidel Castro Ruz!" "Fidel, we trust that you'll the Yankees bust!" "My most honorable guests, beloved compatriots..." "Rice..." "Beans..." "Rice, beans..." "Beans..." "For a Cuban, traveling, it's like really a big thing." "I once got an invitation letter from a friend in Europe." "The first time I went to a supermarket I couldn't close my mouth." "Everything was so..." "It was a chock, you know." "There's so much of everything:" "Apples, pears, perfumes, nice shampoos, trainers...!" "To tell you the truth, I enjoyed the good life, I really did." "Rice..." "Beans..." "Rice, beans..." "Beans..." "We call it Pasta de dientes and it's called Perla." "Everybody knows this is Perla." "You don't need to put it on anymore." "Cuba does not encourage consumerism!" "In Cuba there's no kind of commercial advertising!" "Cuba, our country, is by far... the most democratic country on the whole planet." "Rice..." "Beans..." "Rice, beans..." "Beans..." "In England I never ate beans!" "I didn't want to do beans." "I said: "I won't do beans" I want to eat something else!" "The first thing we did was to go to McDonald's." "I wanted to see McDonald's!" "I wanted to..." "Oh, my God!" "McDonald's, SuperMac, Big Mac..." "I was watching TV, switching channels and eating." "I came home... 180 pounds [80 kilograms] 180 pounds!" "It's so much food in England." "I was always hungry." "So, you know..." "my body was asking for more." "Eating and watching television, change channels..." "Music, musical programs..." "Eating and watching television, change channels..." "Eating, I'm eating, I'm eating..." "McDonald's, Burger King..." "What crap!" "What crap!" "The world economy today... is a gigantic casino!" "Christmas seems to arrive quite early this year here on Wall street." "The ever-increasingly unlikely stock rates on Internet shares reached a new climax yesterday." "50 young people from the Nintendo generation works on Spray... and they know everything about Internet and go to work just because it's fun." "Svante Tidholm is a typical representative for the new information society:" "19 years old, but with many years in the business already... frequently exchanging between Stockholm and San Francisco." "1 million, 2 millions... 3,5 millions, 5 millions." "About 10 millions." "14 millions. 18 millions." "In fact, I hate money and now I don't need to care about them anymore." "Bizarrely enough, about half of my time goes to figuring out how to spend the money." "There are no challenges any longer." "I've got all time I need, and all the cash I need." "I've got no problems." "Sometimes I miss the cheap life, as hell, really!" "Life would become so difficult if I lost all the money." "I wouldn't be able to buy a flight ticket to get here and there..." "There are so many kinds of cheap solutions like that... which I can buy, whenever I want." "You know, it's like:" "No problem." "Come with me, baby." "But, since I know it's just not that simple, all this energy turns against me instead." "And that forces me yet deeper inside of me... and I'm sitting there, empty, wanting to find a meaning in all of this." "I want to find myself in something." "Bizarrely enough, about half of my time goes to figuring out how to spend the money." "Yesterday, when I was out walking with my mother, she said:" ""I wish you never had got all that money."" ""What do you mean with that, really?"" ""Well, I just wish you never had got all that money."" "1 million, 2 millions... 3,5 millions, 5 millions." "About 10 millions." "14 millions. 18 millions." "All the time, an abundance that you'll just get used to." "Like a circus of money, floating away." "And in retrospect, it all looks so stupid." "Like, who's happy with this?" "Nobody." "I might buy a nice apartment where I can take it easy." "Then I'll invite some girl I've met, to impress her with that apartment... and then I'll say "Honey, do you want to marry me?"" "Then we'll buy a house, get kids... and then I'm fucked for good." "Sometimes I miss the cheap life, as hell, really!" "18 millions." "14 millions." "10 millions." "5 millions." "3,5 millions." "2 millions." "1 million." "1." "A comfortable existence, a career, all the promises of material well-being are rather empty." "I think for..." "Quite a few people, they certainly understand that emptiness... and the severe limits on fulfillment and freedom." "Otherwise they wouldn't do it, otherwise people would:" ""Well, I'm just going to get a good job, I'll be happy" Well, who's happy?" "Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Ballmer!" "Come on!" "Get up!" "Get up!" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Get up!" "Yeah!" "Come on!" "I have four word for you:" "I... love... this... companyyyeah!" "Let's take it one more time I... love... this... companyyyeah!" "I..." "I..." "I'm calling for a new ethic." "Developed nations have duty not only to share our wealth... but also to encourage sources that produce wealth." "Why do people go out there and try to protest or try to, you know, do something?" "That isn't mindless violence." "The mindlessness is sitting there doing dope, watching MTV... and then you go and get a job and just slop along." "To me, that's violent." "Targeted property damage or property destruction is necessary." "It's just... it does break out of the confines of the politics as usual." "What do you achieve by holding a sign, doing a protest as usual?" "Stuff I've seen decades of, it doesn't do anything." "People pay no attention." "Why should they pay any attention?" "It's not worth any attention!" "But when people fight... that is something!" "It does grab the attention, and it should because it's real stuff." "It isn't just the symbolic game of:" ""Oh, it makes me feel good, I have my sign" and stuff." "Well, I don't care about that." "If it was valid, if it was not ineffective... much better." "I would much rather have it nice, polite, peaceful..." "Nobody is put in danger, nobody gets hurt, no one gets arrested... nobody gets hit by a cop and not even a window is broken." "Ideal!" "It simply doesn't work that way." "It doesn't work that way." "Property damage, property destruction..." "I'm calling for a new ethic." "Corporate property is the most obvious, legitimate target in my view." "Banks, expensive stores, chains like Starbucks and so forth." "People understand that as part of the global system." "Part of this..." "Part of this encroaching, standardized, destructive form... that is wiping out all differences, all freedom." "Property damage, property destruction..." "People for 2 million years didn't destroy the natural world." "They didn't have war and they had leisure time and so forth and so on." "That is what primitivism refers to in one way and to me that's very inspiring." "In this new world..." "In this new world..." "In this new world, the people would get back their own culture again." "We will have a new set of values." "There will be a big paradigm shift, a big global mind shift... where people will suddenly say:" ""I don't want a fancy car!"" "Where people will suddenly say:" ""I don't want another Big Mac."" "Where people will suddenly say:" ""I don't want to wear any Diesel jeans."" "Where people will suddenly say:" ""I want to have a simple, fulfilling life."" "Where people will suddenly say:" ""I want to have a simple, fulfilling life."" "I want something else." "A simple fulfilling life." "Yeah!"