{"id":11893,"date":"2022-01-09T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11893"},"modified":"2022-01-11T15:07:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:07:26","slug":"except-for-the-whole-eating-people-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/01\/09\/except-for-the-whole-eating-people-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Except for the whole eating-people part&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/in-1973-soylent-green-envisioned-the-world-in-2022-it-got-a-lot-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Seattle Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In 1973, \u2018Soylent Green\u2019 envisioned the world in 2022. It got a lot right.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/author\/george-bass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">George Bass<\/a> \/ The Washington Post<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Soylent Green Documentary - A Look at the World of Soylent Green\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qyizAHAbPII?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The year is 2022. Our overpopulated planet is experiencing catastrophic climate change, megacorporations have excessive power over the government, and clean living is a luxury only the 1 percent can afford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It may read like a scan of the front-page headlines, but these predictions were laid out half a century ago in the dystopian film \u201cSoylent Green.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of films have attempted to visualize the future; most didn\u2019t do a great job. \u201cFreejack\u201d (1992) imagined widespread time-traveling assassins by 2009, while box office bomb \u201cThe Postman\u201d (1997) predicted 2013 would be post-apocalyptic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But about 50 years ago, Hollywood\u2019s prognosticators seemed to hit on the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1972, the \u201cPlanet of the Apes\u201d franchise released its fourth film, \u201cConquest of the Planet of the Apes.\u201d It\u2019s set in the year 1991 and imagines Earth in the grip of a lethal pandemic. Draw your own AIDS\/SARS\/Zika\/covid comparisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But \u201cSoylent Green,\u201d released in 1973 and based on a novel by Harry Harrison, was even more eerily prescient. It\u2019s set in the then-far-off future of 2022. It stars Charlton Heston \u2013 known for playing Moses in \u201cThe Ten Commandments\u201d (1956) and for being the five-time president of the National Rifle Association \u2013 as Thorn, a New York police detective. And the planet he inhabits looks a lot like ours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/in-1973-soylent-green-envisioned-the-world-in-2022-it-got-a-lot-right\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at The Seattle Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Seattle Times In 1973, \u2018Soylent Green\u2019 envisioned the world in 2022. It got a lot right. By\u00a0George Bass \/ The Washington Post The year is 2022. Our overpopulated planet is experiencing catastrophic climate change, megacorporations have excessive power over the government, and clean living is a luxury only the 1 percent can afford. 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