I just had my first and need to give this a rewatch. I think this film, Oryx and Crake, and The Wire spurred me at that point in my life to become extremely involved in movement organizing. First around civic engagement then anti-racism then even further left efforts.

In the decade+ that I've been doing this, I don't think I've ever felt despondent and hopeless. I think a lot about the 'what would you be doing if this were the time of a slave economy/indigenous genocide/segregation/etc' - and that I, myself, am practically doing all that I can with the freetime that I have and that is all that I can do.

I may not be able to halt the course for the increasingly dystopian society we live in now but I'm, at minimum, not doing nothing, and that's something I'll be proudly able to communicate and maybe teach to my children in the future.