"Rutger Bregman does not identify as an optimist. He says that optimism makes people lazy, complacent that history is going in the right direction. Instead he describes himself as a possibilist, a believer in the possibility that things can be different."
"Journalist and corruption expert Sarah Chayes, a former adviser to the Obama administration, does an impressive job summarising her analysis of global kleptocracy. In Malta, the son of the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed after exposing corruption at the highest levels of government, investigates the new scandal of golden passports."
"Take evolution: we need to rethink survival of the fittest, he says. The ice age was more about survival of the friendliest. Getting by was a snuggle for survival. Without friends to keep you warm, you wouldn't survive for long."
Documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten explores global activism and structural inequality through interviews with historian Rutger Bregman, who advocates possibilism over optimism. The film examines corruption and kleptocracy through journalist Sarah Chayes's analysis and cases like Malta's golden passport scandal and the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. Primary focus centers on activism in Chile and the United States, featuring Amazon workers unionizing in New York, Chilean feminists and climate activists battling mining companies, an American teacher organizing strikes, and Chile's youngest politician. Bregman offers historical perspective, reframing survival of the fittest as survival of the friendliest during ice ages. The film's energy conveys infectious possibilism, though its multiple narratives feel compressed.
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