Don't look up! A society without political vision.

Numerous reviews are starting to appear about the excellent film recently released by Netflix: "Don't Look Up". 

The criticisms attempt to draw attention to scientific denialism, the spectacle society, and other factors, but perhaps the main issue that goes uncriticized is the impotence of any action intended by the most realistic people who realize the disaster but simply lack the slightest capacity to react. 

American society, like our own, is held hostage by the depoliticization and individualization of responses to a possible impending chaos. The film, in one of its final scenes, depicts a small family gathering where, pathetically, the only thing the various actors in the scene share is a family dinner and a prayer thanking the Lord for the lives they are all about to lose. 

We also need to draw the attention of digital activism, where we read hundreds of times on various "progressive" channels that claim to produce victories, such as: So-and-so gets a comeback on social media! And..... Got a comeback? At the beginning of the 20th century, it would have been a bullet in the face, a bomb, or even a beating, but nowadays we must be civilized and Christian, that is, they can kill us, but someone will give a comeback on social media to the friends of the murderers. 

Throughout the film, not only are the mechanisms for removing any capacity to react, even to extreme events, shown, but the proposed solutions are either small, individual, and hysterical reactions, or at most, the reaction of destroying a fast-food restaurant due to the total and complete inability to react in an organized and political way to the great manipulators of society. 

Many people draw an analogy between the American president who appears in the film and Bolsonaro, however there is not the slightest similarity. The president is aware of everything that will happen, but seeks at all times to continue the manipulation; it is a clear allusion to Hillary Clinton and not to Bolsonaro.  

The biggest denier in the film is precisely the scientist, who, knowing everything, deluded himself with his fleeting fame as a handsome scientist, who previously had an inferiority complex for not having published anything and simply managed to steal the fame that should have been attributed to his student. 

The comet is an allegory for all the challenges that, if not faced not on social media but through direct and concrete action, will lead not to the extinction of human life on the planet, but to its transformation into a true hell from which not even the multimillionaires will be able to escape.