{"id":95622,"date":"2025-09-24T02:00:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=95622"},"modified":"2025-05-14T12:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:46:16","slug":"zardoz-a-technocratic-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/24\/zardoz-a-technocratic-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Zardoz<\/em>: A Technocratic Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vFfkSwxHpqM?si=IS7g2XjXRBct91J1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 30 Jun 2023<\/p>\n<p>After another viewing, I now think of <em>Zardoz<\/em> as an unintentional parody of the technocratic mindset that was congealing in the 1970s. It&#8217;s a strange film, a sometimes tedious film, but it&#8217;s worth a look if only because there&#8217;s nothing else quite like <em>Zardoz<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I keep saying &#8220;Immortals&#8221; when I mean &#8220;Eternals&#8221; and I had to recut this one a bit due to some semi-random copyright issues so I apologize for any perceptible jank. <\/p>\n<p>The tip jar at Ko-Fi helps keep Feral Historians in the woods and off the streets.<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 30 Jun 2023 After another viewing, I now think of Zardoz as an unintentional parody of the technocratic mindset that was congealing in the 1970s. It&#8217;s a strange film, a sometimes tedious film, but it&#8217;s worth a look if only because there&#8217;s nothing else quite like Zardoz. I keep saying &#8220;Immortals&#8221; when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,65,28],"tags":[263,1593,122,1542,463,1020,85,1574],"class_list":["post-95622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-environment","category-media","tag-1970s","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-netzero","tag-parody","tag-progressives","tag-sf","tag-technocracy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-oSi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95623,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95622\/revisions\/95623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}