It’s not surprising to hear somebody says “don’t consume too much”, “eat seasonally”, “buy as local as possible”, even “don't consume meat”. As if our individual choices can have an impact on mitigating the huge degradation that we have caused for a long time when comparing the effects of the actions taken by the big corporations, conventional and industrialised/high input farming. But that's fine we can still buy environmentally friendly stuff from Amazon with 44.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018, including purchased electricity and indirect emissions. Please don't get me wrong, I find the choices of individuals to be influential in the long run. I just don't think that whole scenario should be shaped by leaving the responsibility to the consumer. —— So what does this have to do with this video? People who watched Westworld know this scene. We see Man in Black (Ed Harris), who tries to seek the maze, which he perceives as a deeper level to the game, at the beginning and end of the video. However, the maze was not for him; it was created to guide hosts to consciousness by the creator of the game. In the scene, after being shot by hosts (robots), he realised that hosts could fight back for the first time because they started to gain consciousness.
Recently I realised that I feel the same thing what Man in Black felt when he saw the hosts stood up for their rights when I watch the World's responses to us since the beginning of 2020. All the -let's say- horrible things that have been around recently are the things that have been tangible enough now to surface our consciousness and attract our attention. I feel what Man in Black felt. Finally, we are confronting what we have been doing for a long time. It is neither good nor bad just it ought to happen.
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