Honey, I Finished The Internet

10 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

1. This short was distributed by the NFB some 45 years ago to various schools for comment before wide release. I was at one of these.
   The simple premise of how one needs to look at things from a different perspective to help see what is really going on stuck in my young mind.
   I occasionally still refer to or “quote” this short to teenagers I mentor.
   The fact that the NFB actually produced something of good educational value sticks in my mind more so these days.

2. The irreplaceable Donald Brittain. Look for his “Paperland”. It’s hard to find, but worth every bit of effort.

3. yes. I remember seeing this about 45 years ago. I was all of 11 or 12,yikes

4. a different perspective? you mean like alien life may not be intelligent? or may not be able to see through glass? its just ridiculous self loathing propoganda. whoever distributed this tripe through the school system to impressionable young minds should be arrested.

5. I agree with you.

6. I don’t know; it strikes me as a pretty good satire on our own tendency to make Official Pronouncements about things we understand but poorly. One quick pass of a Martian satellite and they think they’ve got the whole thing figured out, but how many times have our, eg, archeologists extrapolated some stacked rocks and a broken clay pot into weighty tomes which later proved total cr*p?
   Not everything has to be left-wing propaganda. It’s legal to laugh a little.

7. Defund the far…er uh, arts.
   Tax Cut Please!

8. cars are analogous to a cancer and “humans are parasites” as per the narrator in conclusion isn’t that funny or educational. and people remember this message ‘fondly’ 45 yrs later. odd.

9. Yeah well, 45 years back (1968) we were in stage 2 of our psycho-sexual development….and Charlie was in the wire….and a lotta folks thought Jane Fondal was cute….
   Stage one is the notion that the air is clean and sex is dirty….

10. It thought it was creative and quite entertaining. Because of the “parasites” reference at the very end it’s easy to re-stamp it years after the fact as an “environmental” short, or as a precursor of the modern environmental movement (check out the NFB’s up-to-date description of it underneath the vid for evidence of that) but IMO it’s mostly about a compete outsider’s — an galactic alien’s, in this case — putatively “expert” but totally incorrect first-view analysis/explanation of a completely unfamiliar realm.