The following video comes with a disclaimer: it may make you uneasy, but I insist you watch it.
MAN from Steve Cutts on Vimeo.
It’s an uncomfortable fact that somehow, on some level, we are all complicit with what takes place in this animation. We just don’t see it happening; we only buy the products that are produced by the machine and are a result of the torture of animals, the dependence on oil and it’s by-products, the exploitation of other humans, the exploitation of every last single one of Earth’s natural resources. These atrocities are happening at the other end of a long chain of distributors, in distant lands, so when we pick up our factory-farmed meat at the big chain grocery store with our double-discount coupon, conveniently wrapped in cellophane, we just don’t make that mental connection.
I’M NOT TRYING TO BE HOLIER THAN THOU. I’M GUILTY, TOO. WE ALL ARE.
Case in point: When the BP oil spill took place in the gulf of Mexico in 2010, it was so easy to villainize the powers that be at BP without performing due diligence on ourselves. BP was drilling so dangerously deep in the gulf because–outside of their own fiscal interests and those of their shareholders–they were responding to our demand. Ourdemand. We were complicit. Most of us did not stop driving cars or partaking in the wonders of petroleum-based products or stop ordering things online or stop shopping in the grocery stores and malls or buying things made in China. If you did any one of those things, I am in awe and I would like to personally thank you....