ACT forum promotional video

[Dr Mindbender]

Finally! Its online!

Make sure you get to watch it before the fuckers do me for copyright.

Wasnt sure where to put this, seems as good as anywhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rrWaM1d5Sg

[Cult of Reason]

Here are the thoughts I jotted down while watching the video, so they are in chronological order parallel with the video:


I think this would be improved by:

removing the starving African kids: it is not an obvious connect between technate in the 1st world to improvement in the 3rd,
removing the stuff about racism and war: war should be a sub-part of scarcity and there is no consensus on the cause of racism,
putting more emphasis on wage slavery, adding some stuff about wage slavery in the 1st world, since they are the ones most affected by Technocracy,
putting more emphasis on scarcity and waste, as Technocracy directly addresses them,
putting more emphasis on inequality, as the Technocratic plan obviously eliminates it,
increasing the amount of time available to read things, as some parts appear and disappear to quickly to catch them,
increase the emphasis on the positives of what we advocate: devoting half the video to depressing the viewer is too much and makes us look like stereotypical "whining socialists",
"abundancy" ---> "abundance",
look into having white text with black outlines so it stands out better against light or varied backgrounds,
in the opposite to earlier, the text is now too slow and the effect of the words appearing individually is unnecessary, I think,
the pictures of automated production lines is good, so fewer pictures of space, domestic robots and futuristic buildings and more of automation as Technocracy directly addresses this,
I do not think we need to talk too much about space: it is a side issue,
transhumanism is not really relevant: again, it is a side issue,
for links, you might want to add technocracy.org and technocracy.ca,
why no mention of energy accounting or any of our proposals?

Basically, I think a better video would be 1 minute (maximum) of why Capitalism is bad (emphasising overwork, waste inequality and environmental damage), with the rest saying:

Technocracy will reduce waste, reducing environmental damage,
Technocracy will unleash productive forces to eliminate scarcity, improving standard of living and reducing workload,
Technocracy will achieve this through Energy Accounting and increased automation,
<explanation of what energy accounting is, how it works and why it would improve efficiency and eliminate scarcity>,
web addresses


Your video is a good start, though.:)

[Dr Mindbender]

I'm no steven spielberg, as i've kept saying if anyone can do a better job make yourselves known.

I put the stuff about famine in because i was trying to villify capitalism as much as possible, you cant get much better than that.

[Cult of Reason]

People already know that Capitalism is bad, and there are plenty of other videos around about that. I think we should be more positive.

[Dr Mindbender]

People already know that Capitalism is bad, and there are plenty of other videos around about that. I think we should be more positive.

Some stubborn people remain convinced that the status quo is good. The first part is aimed at them.

[Cult of Reason]

Maybe, but surely we should be aiming at the lower hanging fruit, first?