Director: Alfonso Cuarón
From being cave dwellers, homo sapiens slowly evolved to learn to live in communities and eventually became the most successful species on Earth. Many related species, like the Neanderthals, lost out in this rat race.
After leading an agrarian life, Man evolved to lead one of entrepreneurship and mercantilism. Schisms developed within societies between the masters and slaves. One per cent of the population came to rule over the remaining 99%. The survival of the former depended much on the toiling of the latter and their consumption. The population had to increase at a rate of at least 2.1% to maintain this status quo. Anything below that level would spell bad for business and the collapse of a population. There would be nobody to work or buy to spur the economy.
As the working class became more affluent and more educated and started disbelieving the existence of Divine powers, they became less interested in having big families. Immigration of foreign workers came to fill the void of dropping numbers. Trouble brewed when the newcomers were not accorded the same status as the original inhabitants. In our civilisation, we are at this crossroads. All the progress we have made thus far as human development has stagnated and stands the risk of regressing as the world economy reaches a standstill. Mayhem is the only logical sequelae of this, as everyone exerts their dominance over the other.
Whichever way we look, humanity seems to be leading to self-destruction. They either annihilate themselves with destructive devices or ill-thought actions because of self-interest.
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