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The Collective Evolution
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Posted by doug C on Jan. 9, 2011
111 min - Documentary - 1682 Views

'The Collective Evolution' is a documentary aimed at showing the current state of the world, why it needs to be changed, and how each and every one of us can play a role in changing it. The documentary addresses this need for change through five individual yet interrelated structures society has come to rely upon --finance, education, religion, entertainment/ media, and health/ food. Each of these structures is fully broken down to show viewers how they have come into place, and why their continued existence can no longer be supported. The documentary concludes by drawing attention to consciousness. Addressing who we truly are, what we have come on this planet to do, and most importantly how we can go about doing it.
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Hudson Luce - January 19, 2011 - archived
yeah, it's just Social Darwinism, updated for the 21st Century. This film actually supports the status quo. "Ask for change"? From who? The people in Tunisia are *making* the change in the only way that change can truly be made, just like the people in Eastern Europe made their changes in 1989.

"Belief systems"? yeah, you bet there are belief systems - that people should be free and that if any government exists, it should serve the governed and exist *only* with their free and uncoerced consent, and when that consent is withdrawn, that form of government should cease to exist. *That* is a definite belief system...
Tim Hjersted - January 10, 2011 - archived
I was surprised by the statements made in this film that attempt to explain the injustices of the past in terms of some new age philosophy about what we needed at that time for our personal growth, as if every injustice is just a life lesson for the person who experienced it. They may correct their language if they were pressed on this issue, but the phrasing is sloppy enough for one to infer that their moral world view posits that bad things happen to people because that's what they needed to experience to learn from it.

I hate to say it, but this privileged new-age philosophy - which may apply on a micro level for fairly well-off middle class people - certainly does not explain macro historical injustices. A slave in 18th century America certainly didn't need to be a slave at that time for any reason whatsoever, and certainly not because that's the "lessons he needed at that time."

The world's peoples didn't "need" to endure 10,000 years of brutal and insane conquest, war and colonization. The film is right to argue that the values that created this insane culture are primitive, out-dated constructs that we have the potential to let go of. But framing our past as something that's "served us well" is delusional neo-hippy thinking at best. More than likely, it's an attempt by the film-makers to brand or frame our cultural story in a non-judgmental way, which they probably realize is an effective method to help people let go of the past. But while this may be a clever way to help heavily conditioned people let go of out-dated ideologies, it's not honest, and it doesn't accept the brutal, mass insanity of our past and present for what it is.

I haven't finished watching the film yet, and I like the overall message and intention of the film, but some of the philosophical moral explanations of our history are pretty distracting, and sadly these aspects will limit the film's potential reach.
Tim Hjersted - January 10, 2011 - archived
Response to Tim Hjersted
Yikes, I had to lower my rating for this when I got to the last section on consciousness. One of the film-makers goes so far as to say he's never gotten sick because getting sick isn't in tune with what he wants so that's why he hasn't gotten sick. So by the same measure, anyone that was born into poverty and works in a sweatshop factory chose to have that experience, or invited it, because they just didn't have the right mind set? Talk about delusional thinking.
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