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JoeCovenant:

--- Quote from: BenRG on 16 Feb 2018, 03:03 ---It's interesting that you should mention The Man in the White Suit. Along with its stable-mate, I'm Alright Jack, it is a debunking of the power of scientific and social progress to make the world a better place. Both films highlight the tragically human habit of choosing to reject objectively beneficial change simply because doing otherwise would lead to short-term inconvenience or financial loss or reduction of personal power on your part. In both cases, the protagonist ends up the tragic loser with the entire world having risen as one to strike them down for daring to threaten the status quo, no matter how bad said status quo might be.

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..Ummm...

I'm about 100% certain that's *why* Tova referenced it in the first place, Ben.. :)

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Tova on 15 Feb 2018, 13:37 ---We haven't progressed at all since The Man in the White Suit, have we?

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"The status quo will do whatever it takes to retain the status quo."

Is it cold in here?:
Otherwise it would have changed already.

Gyrre:

--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 18 Feb 2018, 13:25 ---Otherwise it would have changed already.

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Jake from Adventure Time expresses a rather cynical view about how the status quo works, but I can't really argue with him on his point.

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBHouBDjqsc

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