24th of February 2016

... This caught my eye on the tube today.  I actually stopped and laughed out loud as the thought in my head was 'ha the robot dinosaurs are doing their best to put us off going back to the forest'.  I hovered and thought about taking a picture for posterity but then remembered I'd find it online easy peasy, which, as you can see, I did.

My following thought as I wandered down the platform was that, rather than influence any adults, it would more likely effect the younger generations perception of 'the forest', especially those who haven't had much contact with them.  Perhaps every generation since we left the forests have had this kind of propaganda (my generation had The Blair Witch Project) to remind them just how safe and cozy we all are in our giant cement/cardboard boxes.

I thought that most people won't even see the film and all they will see are these scary posters telling them that forests are full of scary hands that will drag you down, down into the soil and that that is all that matters and we're subliminally having negative notions implanted into our brain by the system!

Then I though I was thinking too deeply about it and it's most likely just a shit film playing on our natural fear of wild places the make a quick buck.

It a shame though.  These kind of ideas along with stupid docu-soaps about groups of people being left to fend for themselves in the woods only to end up eating cold worms and mud, play into Mother Cultures industrilised narrative very well - Go back to sleep, don't worry, progress lies with the robot dinosaurs, you'd never survive without us....