Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers
Opening
Footage of the protests at the 27th G8 summit in Genoa.
Fidel Castro gives a speech.
John Zerzan
John Zerzan is interviewed.
RealDoll
RealDoll manufacturer gives a tour of his warehouse, showing the variety and cost of the sex-dolls.
Cuba
Mirta Muñes shows the Cuban ration card, Cuban toothpaste.
Pre Fidel Speech Parade, Fidel going up to the pulpit.
Tania speaks about having gone out of Cuba, amazed by supermarkets, McDonald's, and gaining a lot of weight.
Internet
Internet-wealthy Svante says he hates money, feels empty.
John Zerzan on emptiness in consumer society.
Balmer's monkeyboy dance and then "I love this company" statement intermixed with workers stretching, then Fidel Castro lip-synched to "I love this company".
footage from Alang, India where it says 40,000 workers scrap ships to recycle steel.
John Zerzan speech saying violent protesting is better than peaceful protesting, intermixed with a car show, and protesting.
New Ethic
John Zerzan says corporate property of Starbucks or similar is the main target of his criticism due to being understood as destructive and wiping out freedom and diversity.
footage of primitive man.
landfills, with conclusion: there is a paradigm shift coming where people will not want corporate products and will desire a simple, fulfilling life. This can be understood ironically.
Credits
avant garde