Anti-globalization protests in Edinburgh during the start of the 31st G8 summit.

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Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is a 2003 Swedish documentary film on consumerism and globalization, created by director Erik Gandini and editor Johan Söderberg. more...

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It looks at the arguments for capitalism and technology, such as greater efficiency, more time and less work, and argues that these are not being fullfilled.

Structure

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, MacDonald's, and gaining a lot of weight.;

Internet

Internet-wealthy Svante says he hates money, feels empty.; John Zerzan on emptyness in consumer society.; Balmers monkeyboy dance and then "I love this company" statment 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 Zarzan 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, fullfilling life. This can be understood ironically.;

Credits

Views

See also: John Zerzan, anti capitalism, and Anti-globalization

It prominently features the views of anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan.

Talking Heads

John Zerzan, anarcho-primitivist writer, author of Against Civilization: A Reader (1998); Fidel Castro, President of Cuba; Kalle Lasn, from Adbusters; Svante Tidholm, from Stockholm, Sweden, a wealthy web-designer of Spray and author of the autobiographical novel Loser (Wahlström & Widstrand, 1998, Swedish); Carlo Giuliani, Activist and anarchist killed during Anti-G8 demonstrations in Genoa, 2001;

Criticizes

George W. Bush, President of the United States; Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft since 2000; Bill Gates, Chairman of the Board and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft;