March 2012
Alan Moore on culture and responsibility
“I think our mistake has been thinking, in the 20th and 21st century, of the big cultural providers, like television or Hollywood, as culture. They’re not. They’re commercial entities which may occasionally or accidentally produce culture. But, they’re not culture. We are culture. Just ordinary people, what they do. You’ve only got to look at all sorts of areas around the world at present to see people taking things into their own hands. That seems to be the trend politically and I think it’s a very good one.
“Taking responsibility for something is generally a good way of gaining some measure of control over it. That’s certainly true when it comes to one’s own life. You take responsibility for it and all of a sudden you have control over it. And I think it extends to other things as well. If we take responsibility for the way we’re governed and the way that we’re ruled economically and the way that the Anonymous and Occupy protesters seem to be doing, then that potentially can have a huge world-changing effect. That’s the same whether you’re talking about politics or whether you’re talking about the arts. If I hadn’t believed that it would be possible for me to have some sort of effect then I’d never have tried. As it turns out, my ideas have been communicated to a fair number of people. But back at the beginning, that was far from obvious. All that you had was your own belief in yourself. So yes, it’s vital that individuals believe that they can have an impact upon society. For one thing, it’s historically true. For another thing, it is the best thing to believe because if you believe otherwise that’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. That is the philosophy of a natural-born slave in many respects.”
Alan Moore, from an interview with Honest Publishing (December, 2011)
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Michael Jackson, “Working Day And Night”
dates of interest
2013 - Escape From LA
2015 - Back to the Future II
2018 - Rollerball, The Island
2019 - Blade Runner, Running Man, Akira
2020 - 2020 Visions, Mission to Mars, Reign of Fire
2022 - Soylent Green, Year Zero, Earth’s moon destroyed in Cowboy Bebop
2023 - Nikopol Trilogy, this fantastic Prometheus promo
2024 - A Boy and His Dog
2025 - 334
2026 - Metropolis
2027 - Children of Men, Sarah Connor Chronicles
2029 - Terminator, Terminator II, Ghost in the Shell
2032 - Innocence, Demolition Man
2035 - 12 Monkeys
2036 - Things To Come
2038 - V for Vendetta (the comic)
2043 - The Postman, Book of Eli
2046 - 2046 (not really)
2047 - Event Horizon
2054 - Minority Report
2055 - A Sound of Thunder, Days of Future Past
2057 - Sunshine
2065 - Thunderbirds
2068 - Captain Scarlet
2071 - Cowboy Bebop
2075 - Planetes
2077 - Rendevous With Rama, Screamers
2080 - A Crack in Space
2081 - Harrison Bergeron
2084 - Total Recall
2092 - The Last Man
2100 - Revolt in 2100
2115 - Schismatrix
2122 - Alien
2130 - The Black Hole
2141 - Dirty Pair
2173 - Sleeper
2176 - Ghosts of Mars
2179 - Aliens
2199 - The Matrix, Space Battleship Yamato
2200 - Starship Troopers, Friday, Accidental Time Machine, Red Dwarf, Judge Dredd
2207 - Mutant Chronicles
2257 - Forbidden Planet
2263 - The Fifth Element
2274 - Logan’s Run
2293 - Zardoz
2300 - Fahrenheit 451
2419 - Buck Rogers
2500 - Battle Angel
2505 - Idiocracy
2517 - Firefly
2540 - Brave New World
2578 - Pitch Black
2688 - Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
2720 - Valerian and Laureline
2805 - Wall-E
3200- Bucky O’Hare
3700 - Nausicaa, Valley of the Wind
3900 - Barbarella
3978 - Planet of the Apes
802,701 - The Time Machine
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