Consumerism
Corporatism
Capitalism
The three C’s of modern civilization
Today it’s becoming obvious to many people that modernity is dead. Consumerism is turning our planet into a junk heap. Corporatism has become a new despotism. And Capitalism has bought our politics so we have no mechanism to make change.
But all of this was much less clear in 1975
when Rollerball skewered the internal contradictions of modernity in one of the greatest cult scifi movies of all time
it also has three of the best “future sports” sequences ever filmed
and features many of the leading American fashion models of the mid 70s
Rollerball is quite a movie
PS – this video essay was published 2 years ago on the Science Fiction channel. It had 7k views in that time. An updated edit was republished yesterday and has 20k views in the 24 hours. Thanks to all for helping the channel grow so fast.
Damien Walter 