The video we watched in class Thursday, February 21, 2013 mentioned a trial from Auschwitz concentration camps in which the man’s excuse for not worrying about or helping the people being thrown in the ovens and burning to death was because he didn’t have time to worry about it, because he was focused on keeping the oven working, and because one little person couldn’t have done anything about it anyways. The man in the video says that is completely irresponsible, and that the man on trial let something terrible happen because his one and only goal was to attend to the needs of technology. The man in the video also makes a subtle comment afterwards, saying that this kind of irresponsibility is common in our society, and then gloomy pictures of the environment were shown to end the video. I was very happy with the subtle analogy being made.
What he was trying to get across to the viewers is that completely irresponsible behavior is going on in every day life to this day, but in more indirect ways. The environment has been completely torn to shreds because of highways, rushes to build bigger cities, exhaust gases, mining, chemicals, and many more common activities of today’s third world countries, and nobody thinks a think about it, because their only concern is accomplishing their tasks, which are often tasks brought on by the cycles of society brought on by the obsession with efficiency and technological advancements. Not only are people living in poor, unhealthy conditions as a result of this, and sometimes even dying, but the amount of pollution, deforestation, and destruction of the environment altogether is completely absurd, and the excuse for everyone not joining together and fixing the problem is that they don’t have time in their busy lives, and because no one person could stop it anyways.
What he was trying to get across to the viewers is that completely irresponsible behavior is going on in every day life to this day, but in more indirect ways. The environment has been completely torn to shreds because of highways, rushes to build bigger cities, exhaust gases, mining, chemicals, and many more common activities of today’s third world countries, and nobody thinks a think about it, because their only concern is accomplishing their tasks, which are often tasks brought on by the cycles of society brought on by the obsession with efficiency and technological advancements. Not only are people living in poor, unhealthy conditions as a result of this, and sometimes even dying, but the amount of pollution, deforestation, and destruction of the environment altogether is completely absurd, and the excuse for everyone not joining together and fixing the problem is that they don’t have time in their busy lives, and because no one person could stop it anyways.
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