Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers is a 2003 Swedish
documentary film on
consumerism and
globalization, created by director
Erik Gandini and editor
Johan Söderberg. 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 fulfilled, and they never will be. The film leans towards
anarcho-primitivist ideology and argues for 'a simple and fulfilling life'.
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.
Ballmer'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.
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