DJ Spooky (Paul Miller) talks about the history of media and thoughts about media in culture. He discusses and demonstrates the unexpected side effects of free speech, law, and copyright while showing the power of remixed art. The future and meaning of remix culture is discussed.

Status Anxiety discusses the desire of people in many modern societies to "climb the social ladder" and the anxieties that result from a focus on how one is perceived by others. De Botton claims that chronic anxiety about status is an inevitable side effect of any democratic, ostensibly egalitarian society. De Botton lays out the causes of and solutions to status anxiety as follows:

Causes:

Affluenza, a portmanteau of affluence and influenza, is a term used by critics of consumerism. Sources define this term as follows:

affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. (de Graaf [1])

There was a lot of talk at the fest, and still is at the spores, about the dollar, money, alternate currency ideas and time shares, ect. A lot of us have great ideas and some have even put work into some alternate systems.

Wikipedia has this to say, "The Union: The Business Behind Getting High is a 2007 documentary film by Canadian filmmaker Brett Harvey. The film explores the illegal growth, sale and trafficking of marijuana in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its theatrical run was limited to film festivals.

This is one of my favorite video documentaries. It is done in a style very similar to the Zeitgeist films, though it does predate them.

Wikipedia has this to say about the film,

You'd think that things like disasters, or the purity of childhood, or even milk, let alone water or air, would be sacred. But no. Corporations have no built-in limits on what, who, or how much they can exploit for profit. In the fifteenth century, the enclosure movement began to put fences around public grazing lands so that they might be privately owned and exploited.

Professor Niall Ferguson, "We may think power resides with presidents and prime ministers in palaces and parliament. Not so, in today's world real power lies in the hands of an elite group of unassuming men in anonymous open planned offices. The men who control the world's bond market."