Review of Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take? (2011) by Brian H — 02 Jan 2012

The movie doesn't bring anything new to the subjects and is poorly edited and chaotic. The first part it is pretty much about paleoastrounatical hypotheses ala Erich Von Daniken mixed with some random Ufological facts and myths.

It mixes science with lay hypothesis. The second part is pretty much very simplified revision of documentary Money as Debt mixed with Illuminati/New World Order theories in style of Alex Jones - Info Wars.

The last part is supposed to show the solutions we need to take if we want to change the current social paradigm. Despite few good points regarding changing our lifestyle and ceasing our support for current system it doesn't give any rational and logical scientific solutions to current social problem.

Solutions they offer is nothing more but a patch-working the effects of the causes of social/system defects not the solutions focused on causes of the problems which are intrinsic part of monetary socio-economic paradigm itself and not some caused by some secret government agenda or some secret society.

Corruption of human mind is the effect of the corrupted environment in which human is being raised since prenatal stage. Gamble has very "inboxed" way of thinking and he tries to find "solutions" within the current monetary system.

Well, I don't expect creators of the film to think out of the box of monetary system as they sell this film online and ask for donations. They try to persuade the viewer to join their movement. I don't really understand why very educated person would do such thing if there are other great organizations like The Venus Project or The Zeitgeist Movement which offer very deeply researched and educated scientific solutions to world problems.

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