Blind Spot (2008)

Official Weeb site: http://www.blindspotdoc.com/

William Catton Jr., Max Fraad Wolff, Richard Heinberg, Kenneth Deffeyes, Albert

Bartlett, Roscoe Bartlett, James Hansen, David Pimentel, Joseph Tainter, David Korten,

Jason Bradford, Elke Weber, Mary-Ann Hitt, Terry Tamminen, Ted Caplow and Derrick

Jensen

That's quite a star cast for discussing things like peak oil, global warming and societal

collapse. And in this respect the documentary doesn't disappoint for one moment. Unlike

many other films on these themes (and I think I have seen most of them) this

documentary delves into the psychology that is causing the cocktail of converging crises

that human society is facing in my opinion. Very little is left out.

I was quite amazed that the film didn't show up on any torrent sites and finally

decided to buy it (I normally do that afterwards when a documentary really appealed

to me and I want the makers to continue doing what they do by buying a dvd of their

work or by donating). I hope the makers of Blind Spot will forgive me for ripping their

dvd and seeding it, but their film is so excellent that it has to be seen by as many

people as possible. I believe it's in the same league as documentaries as The Century of

the Self, The Corporation and Blue Gold: World Water Wars, all of them eye- and

mind-openers.

"The world is saying look you have a choice, you can either fix it or I can fix it, and if

I fix it you are not going to like it because I'm going to throw everything away. And

everything means most of us."

-Derrick Jensen, author of 'ENDGAME'

"Blind Spot rides currents of beauty and sadness, ultimately landing with a catharsis

that comes when truth has been told."

-Jason Bradford, founder of 'Willits Economic Localization'

"If we lived in a rational world, inhabited by rational human beings, viewing Blind Spot

would be a mandatory prerequisite to taking any federal oath of office in the coming

year. Were that to happen, there might be hope that the USA would resume world

leadership and our renewed influence would be used to redirect ourselves and the

world away from the unsustainable path upon which we plummeted along throughout the

20th century, mistakenly regarding the adventure as unmitigated progress."

-William R. Catton, author of 'OVERSHOOT'