Disassociation from "Thrive" statement

**geomancer** · 04-12-2012 08:54 PM

The Thrive movie gained a fair degree of credibility due to interviews in it of some important progressives. Many of these people have now chosen to disassociate themselves from the movie.

Georgia Kelly of the Praxis Peace Institute emailed the following statement:

We are a group of people who were interviewed for and appear in the movie Thrive, and who hereby publicly disassociate ourselves from the film.

Thrive is a very different film from what we were led to expect when we agreed to be interviewed. We are dismayed that we were not given a chance to know its content until the time of its public release. We are equally dismayed that our participation is being used to give credibility to ideas and agendas that we see as dangerously misguided.

We stand by what each of us said when we were interviewed. But we have grave disagreements with some of the film’s content and feel the need to make this public statement to avoid the appearance that our presence in the film constitutes any kind of endorsement.

Signatories (in alphabetical order)

Deepak Chopra
Duane Elgin
Amy Goodman
Paul Hawken
Edgar Mitchell
John Perkins
John Robbins
Elisabet Sahtouris
Vandana Shiva

**comodin** · 04-14-2012 07:22 AM

There is no explanation of WHY these people want to disassociate themselves from the movie. Personally, I thought it was an excellent movie, except for its endorsement of the economist von Mises at the end. What do these interviewees find so objectionable?

Posted in reply to the post by geomancer:

The Thrive movie gained a fair degree of credibility due to interviews in it of some important progressives. Many of these people have now chosen to disassociate themselves from the movie.

Georgia Kelly of the Praxis Peace Institute emailed the following statement:

We are a group of people who were interviewed for and appear in the movie Thrive, and who hereby publicly disassociate ourselves from the film.

Thrive is a very different film from what we were led to expect when we agreed to be interviewed. We are dismayed that we were not given a chance to know its content until the time of its public release. We are equally dismayed that our participation is being used to give credibility to ideas and agendas that we see as dangerously misguided.

We stand by what each of us said when we were interviewed. But we have grave disagreements with some of the film’s content and feel the need to make this public statement to avoid the appearance that our presence in the film constitutes any kind of endorsement.

Signatories (in alphabetical order)

Deepak Chopra
Duane Elgin
Amy Goodman
Paul Hawken
Edgar Mitchell
John Perkins
John Robbins
Elisabet Sahtouris
Vandana Shiva

**Gus diZerega** · 04-14-2012 08:33 AM

Probably the rampant paranoia and conspiracy theories along with the libertarian bafflegab.

Just one example. The movie said the only crop circles made by humans were obviously inferior ones. There is a video I am too tired to search out right now but that I watched while checking out the movie's claims where four Brits plus a cameraman and reporter from a British newspaper mad a very elaborate one in a few hours. And filmed the process. They said they had made many of the circles.

I researched more of Gamble's research and it was mostly hooey. This is not to say there are not conspiracies. But this movie is no aid at all to identifying or understanding any of them.

There is good stuff exposing the silliness in the movie, search the web.

Gus

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There is no explanation of WHY these people want to disassociate themselves from the movie. Personally, I thought it was an excellent movie, except for its endorsement of the economist von Mises at the end. What do these interviewees find so objectionable?