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Very soon, however, the film jumps the tracks. Thrive, which has become something of a cult phenomenon since its November release—by some estimates, it's been viewed a million times online—then sets out to show how the government and its sponsors are duping us.

Bringing in progressive heroes to recount the more or less well-known crimes against humanity perpetrated by the likes of Monsanto and Exxon-Mobil, Thrive makes the familiar and justifiable case that huge corporations have too much power, are largely corrupt and pose a threat to society. This probably accounts for its online popularity with the Occupy movement and its supporters.

For the record, I count myself among that audience segment. But where the filmmakers should go political, they play the conspiracy card. I find this deeply disturbing. The Praxis Peace Institute , a progressive think tank founded by musician and longtime political activist Georgia Kelly , issued a page pamphlet entitled Deconstructing Libertarianism: A Critique Prompted by the Film Thrive.

Associate Producer - Marshall Lefferts. This article is a stub. You can help by expanding it. Listen for free. Foster Gamble - From Survival to Thrival. View show details. First, we are deeply divided, not just into two parties, not just into two narratives, but into two separate and seemingly incompatible realities. Second, the vast majority of the American people overwhelmingly agree — they want to work together to find solutions, and not just blame the other side. As Einstein famously said a problem cannot be solved at the same level it was created.

The two political parties are locked in battle in a dualistic playing field, in the death throes of Newtonian politics, where equal and opposite forces fight to the death, with we the people and the natural world as collateral damage. Einstein said something else as well — the field is the sole governing agency over the particle. In other words, if we want to transform what we call politics — not to mention every other aspect of civilization — we have to get off the old battlefield and on to a new playing field.