Darwin's Nightmare

Darwin's Nightmare was a depressing documentary about the destruction of the ecosystem of Lake Victoria, due to the introduction of a bucket of Nile Perch about forty years ago or so. And how that has destroyed lives by killing off almost all ways to live there except prostitution and fishing. It's a huge downer. Because Europeans don't seem to understand why the destruction of the ecosystem is so bad, and the Tanzanians don't seem to mind either. They're exporting the fish and importing...? Guns, germy Europeans who abuse the women, and Big Mouth Billy Bass. Oh, and a destroyed ecosystem and economy that leads to kids huffing and fighting over rice. I wasn't overly impressed with the film itself, which attacks pretty much everything, but that's probably because, while extremely liberal in many ways, I'm far more interested in capitalism and free trade due to my economic background than others who might share some of my other beliefs. Like giving everyone a musket to protect themselves and banning every firearm that can fire more than four times a minute. If you can't kill your deer with that, go back to playing Counterstrike. The kids do play Counterstrike still, right? Should I have said Halo? I'm so out of touch on FPSs. Anyway, if you see one documentary about how we're destroying our world as evidenced through enormous fish and huffing kids, watch this film.