Xamanismo Coletivo<p>Where <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.coop/@ethanz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ethanz</span></a></span> tells us about the cultural power of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DontLookUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DontLookUp</span></a>:</p><p>"But there’s something Don’t Look Up gets right. Many of our <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/institutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>institutions</span></a> are failing us. The experts don’t know what to do. The feelings of terror and helplessness lead people to behave strangely and unpredictably. McKay doesn’t offer us a solution to an ongoing <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/apocalypse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>apocalypse</span></a>, but this <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a>, at its best, offers us a moment of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/empathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>empathy</span></a>. Look past the machinations of the politicians and the media stars, and look towards the people in the background trying to make sense of a reality that no longer makes sense, disrupted by <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID</span></a> or <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> or by a slide into <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a>. If there’s a solution to this polycrisis, this interconnected mess of apocalyptic threats, it’s in the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/groups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>groups</span></a> working to live through this scary moment, not through the politicians or celebrities who’ll get to escape to their bunkers or spaceships."</p><p><a href="https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/science-on-screen-dont-look-up/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/</span><span class="invisible">science-on-screen-dont-look-up/</span></a></p>