Monday, August 31, 2015

"The Most Adorable Film Ever Made About the Perils of Space Capitalism"

Adorable, because that's just the way we roll.

From Motherboard:
Wire Cutters,” is an adorable, award-winning, Pixar-styled short about a robot miner sent to another planet and the shenanigans that unfold when he bumps into another bot. It is also about the perils of exporting neoliberal extraction-based capitalism to outer space and the soul-crushing twinge of regret we all will inevitably feel when we realize that we are unable to change our ways, dooming us to greed-encrusted loneliness and, even, potentially, oblivion....MORE