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Why I don't like Greta Thunberg; and whom I like instead.

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"For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realise that, in order to survive, he must protect it." - Jacques-Yves Cousteau Thunberg Greta is a young climate activist who is internationally famous for headbutting world's politicians. She directly voices her demand for political leaders to enforce strict climate laws, reprimand polluting corporations, and to change the system. She wants to protect her future, like I, from a hot and scorching Earth, riddled with six months of intense droughts and six months of heavy rain, half of the landmass then submerged in water and all of the air polluted; where no art and no economy will thrive, and science will be constricted to only the job of ensuring the survival of humankind. But the reason I do not like (not the same as dislike) her is because she only complains: she exposes a problem but does not invent a solution. She started her activism by spending her school days to prote

(Doctor Strange? ]/Why is it among Marvel's best:!

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"I know that I know nothing." - Plato's account of Socrates saying so.  Us humans know better of the world being incredibly infinite, microscopically awesome, and vibrantly stranger than what we think of it in this mass we have between our two ears. Firstly because it has THREE OF MY FAVOURITE LOVED ACTORS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. Ben! Mads! [pronounced Mes (he's Danish)] Tilda! I LOVE THESE ACTORS! At the beginning of Doctor Strange, we see Kaecilius relieve a sorcerer of their head; that just shows that this movie isn't going to be beaten into softcore. The Ancient One confronts Kaecilius and his misguided followers and they begin to flee. To obstruct them, she puts everyone in a mirror dimension and manipulates the structures of buildings around to gain advantage. That is just a taste of the Nolanesque (associating to the properties of my personally favourite filmmaker Christopher Nolan's films) visuals you see in this film.