About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary

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About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary


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This was a lot of fun to work on because I got to spend a lot of time learning THE TRUTH ABOUT GOLD and by that I mean actually interesting facts about how humans use gold. The mythology of gold actually makes a lot of sense through the lens of its…

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  1. I had similar thoughts when I briefly turned to ad-based streaming to watch new episodes of Rick and Morty. Every ad break was from a different jewelry company selling diamond wedding rings, which at first seemed to be a waste of ad money for a demographic that likely is not old enough to have money or reason to buy very expensive jewelry right now, nor are they likely interested in purchasing it for themselves. Then I noticed that the ads, while from different companies, all carried the same through-line that marrying a partner requires a hefty investment of multiple thousands of dollars in diamonds and Precious Metals™, and the amount of your investment is a direct correlation to the amount of love you have for your partner. That's when it dawned on me that they weren't encouraging men to go out and buy jewelry after the episode ended—they were specifically reinforcing to the next generation of boys the invented notion that an insane investment in diamonds is a requirement for their last rite of passage into manhood.

  2. The thing that got me is the fixation on “born in the heart of dying stars”

    Because, y’know what ELSE is born in the heart of dying stars?

    Iron! The same element that forms a critical atomic component of hemoglobin, and allows your red blood cells to carry oxygen to your tissues

  3. After reading Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara, this film takes on a more sinister and more disgusting form. With the horrible conditions of mines in The Congo, it feels like they intentionally choose an African spokesperson.

  4. have lived in south africa for a long time (decades); history about gold in the bipoc communities here is always about how rich white cishet british (and sometimes dutch/french) capitalist settler colonists have, and still do, exploited indigenous peoples, displaced whole ethnic groups (think about how johannesburg, its nickname "the city of gold" was 'founded') , funded and directly participated in genocide of those peoples, etc etc etc for that element on the periodic table – even sanitised history books in the curriculum (at least when studied in cape town and north west provinces almost a decade ago) have stated how bad that was and how its negatively impacting the environment now…this documentary is cishet capitalist settler colonist revisionist history and its gross; abolish this shit, riot – almost cried when the clip of an actual exploited black mine worker was used to further this shitty propaganda about gold

  5. One of my close friends obtained gold jewelry from her mother, I want to acknowledge the actual financial independence south Asian women get from gold because of it. She admitted she got it from hand me downs or a genuine unethical lake, but its reason to give down is to give financial independence to a woman seeking financial independence. She, as a terrible mind you, acknowledge the terrible system behind gold and the security behind it. She was able to give her child something that could give her a little financial dependence, but considering living and scholastic costs…it's meant bearly anything to her to give up…

  6. Ah yeah, Aotearoa's gold mining history is very normal and not full of mass murder, union busting, climate destruction, genocide and desecration. /s

    Even just googling "New Zealand mine" you're gonna learn about Pike River (it's been 14 years and seventeen bodies are still unaccounted for btw neither major party's government can commit to retrieiving them because it's that physically unsafe for humans.)

    Also, Reefton is a little suspect as an example given that it was founded by Pakēhā settlers who were there for gold mining and that only, you know it being the site of a huge miner's strike and lockout in the 1910s that disproportionately targeted the working class ( and often Māori) miners resulting in the cops killing a man in Waihi, but nah don't worry about it look at some stock film of a wēka.

  7. If this had been a documentary about gold, the mineral (?), the human race's historical relationship to it, and whatnot, narrated by Idris Elba, it'd probably have been nice!

  8. Rewatching the intro I selfishly hope Dan is getting the same weird AI Illuminati alien interference ads I’ve been getting because the video he’d make on it would be amazing

  9. 3 minutes in & the best the gold docu is gonna be is a fluff piece & at worse a fluff piece the ignores, says it does not happens or it is not so bad as people say the exploitation that happens with gold mining

  10. The colonialism part is wild. The documentary wants to say "yeah, black miners were oppressed from all the mining they had to do. But they also had a leverage in that they could cease mining operations to demand to stop being oppressed" like what

  11. Huh, haven't seen your vids in a few years and I see you've grown in popularity. Too bad you've leaned into populist "takes" though. I enjoyed your older style much more.