Don't Look Up: Collective Review

ABSTRACT

Just as in the film, far too many in America and across the world have demonstrated a homicidal rejection of truth and scientific fact in favor of unquestioning allegiance to a fascistic demagoguery rooted in cultish devotion to Donald Trump, the embrace of white supremacy, and an unwillingness to care for or protect the lives and health of others. The past two years have been the most depressing and distressing of my adult life, chiefly because they have exposed how incredibly selfish, immoral, and ignorant wide swaths of the human population are. Don't Look Up magnifies and lampoons these tendencies, as the human race is unable to band together in collective self-interest to deflect the oncoming comet that at the end of the film, impacts Earth and eliminates all life on the planet.