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Koyannisquatsi is an intricate ecphrasis expressing philosophical expectations for the world as we know it. It shows the beauty of nature with a slow pace, and soothing music. While industry is shown with a fast-moving pace, and an almost depriving human repartee. It is shown in a way making it seem leminil; creating an almost deus ex machina, in which nature takes the form of god. However it clearly makes its point of the ancient philosophers eschatology. Nature isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. If we decided to live like a philosopher, or like the Indians (with the theory of waste not) then everyone would be living in tents, killing only what their family needed, sharing with neighbors, in clans. Sound like Utopia, happily ever after? No, it sounds great, but happily ever after doesn’t last that long, moving everybody into tents and destroying industries would obstreperous. The world