{"id":26210,"date":"2017-09-29T07:48:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26210"},"modified":"2017-09-29T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:48:26","slug":"the-koyaanisqatsi-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26210","title":{"rendered":"The Koyaanisqatsi Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Koyaanisqatsi Economy<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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\nKoyaanisqatsi<\/center>The film Koyaanisqatsi was released in 1982. The title means \u2018life out of balance\u2019 in the language of the Hopi, a Native American tribe who live(d) mainly in what is now north-east Arizona. It is directed by Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. There are no actors, and no dialogue. Philip Glass\u2019s music underlies a series of film fragments that contrast the beauty of American nature with the noise and pollution mankind has added to it. Wikipedia:<\/p>\n

The film consists primarily of slow motion and time-lapse footage of cities and many natural landscapes across the United States. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and music. Reggio explained the lack of dialogue by stating \u201cit\u2019s not for lack of love of the language that these films have no words. It\u2019s because, from my point of view, our language is in a state of vast humiliation. It no longer describes the world in which we live<\/b>.\u201d <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Due to its initial success, Reggio and Glass made two sequels to the film, Powaqqatsi (1988), meaning \u201cparasitic way of life\u201d or \u201clife in transition\u201d, and Naqoyqatsi (2002) which means \u201clife as war\u201d, \u201ccivilized violence\u201d and \u201ca life of killing each other\u201d. If you haven\u2019t seen them, they come highly recommended.<\/p>\n

<\/center>Koyaanisqatsi is an fitting term to describe not only our world in general, but also our economies. They are severely out of balance, and getting more so every day. But economies, like nature, need at least a minimum in balance. If that disappears, this lack of balance will tip them over. It is somewhat strange that this is not being recognized, and not even discussed.<\/p>\n

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The Koyaanisqatsi Economy\u00a0 KoyaanisqatsiThe film Koyaanisqatsi was released in 1982. The title means \u2018life out of balance\u2019 in the language of the Hopi, a Native American tribe who live(d) mainly in what is now north-east Arizona. It is directed by Godfrey Reggio with music by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke. There are no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6502,16204,425,16205,16206,661,13924,16207,5177,868],"class_list":["post-26210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-balance","tag-hopi","tag-inequality","tag-koyaanisqatsi","tag-philip-glass","tag-qe","tag-raul-ilargi-meijer","tag-reggio","tag-the-automatic-earth","tag-wealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26212,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26210\/revisions\/26212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}