I heart Huckabees

so i watched the film I 'heart' huckabees the other day.

The plot of the flim is based around the lead character (jason schwartzman) who hires a pair of existential detectives to figure out some coincidences in his life.

Not commenting on the sucess of the film, one of the funnier characters is Mark Whalberg, who is a firefighter that has an epiphany about the consumption of oil and petrol, and regards it as murder.

One of the lines that caught me, and I am paraphrasing' is 'that we live in a society where people do not take responsibility for their actions or choose to ignore the consequences of what they do'.

I think this is paricularly true for a post modern consumerist society, where, although we are bombarded with imagery about the consequences of what we are doing, we still manage to find diversions to avoid its reality.

Whan are we going to start acknowledging, that everytime we use a car - we are making a negative contribution to the environment, et al?

Only when we begin to collectively take responsibility for our actions can we than start to move on with real and tangible solutions, where the majority is committed to progress.