Thrive

Thrive is a 2011 conspiracy theory film made by Foster Gamble, bank heir to the multinational and pharmaceutical company Procter & Gamble,Georgia Kelly, "Thrive: Deconstructing the Film". The Huffington Post. Retrieved on 19 September 2016. and his wife Kimberly Carter Gamble. Claiming to be a documentary, the film smashes together pretty much every modern conspiracy theory in the books, including free energy suppression, UFO landings, New World Order, vaccine hysteria, 9/11 truthers, and much more, all combined to make a statement about a "Global Domination Agenda" Gamble claims controls much of the world.
As seen by the proposed "solutions" (which include the dismantling of the Federal Reserve and elimination of public schools and taxes), the film is a not-so-well disguised libertarian propaganda piece and Unified Conspiracy Theory at the same time. Several of the more liberal interviewees were quite disconcerted to be used to further such an agenda. Pseudoscience, New Age, and conspiracy theory stars like David Icke also appear on the movie, talking about toroidal energy and UFO nonsense, respectively. Ironically enough, the company Foster's family co-founded was also the subject of a satanic conspiracy theory, though the Thrive website maintains that while Foster Gamble was indeed the great-grandson of James Gamble, Foster's documentary is neither affiliated with P&G nor funded by it.How is Foster related to Procter and Gamble?
== Positive reactions ==
Thrive was voted the Veiwer's Choice for Top Transformational Film for 2011 by AwareGuide. Top Transformational Films of 2011 (AwareGuide). Dig the rest of that list. It's in excellent company.
Mark Jeantheau of Grinning Planet ("Saving the Planet One Joke at a Time") reviewed the film, saying it "gets down to the real answer, which is non-violent non-participation. Under that broad umbrella, presented for your consideration are things such as changing how you bank; shunning corporate food (especially GMO-based food) in favor of local food; adopting and promoting renewable energy; and demanding that the internet be kept fair and open."Movie review: Thrive (2011) (Mark Jeantheau, Grinning Planet)
== Not so positive reactions ==
Kyle Hill of JREF described it as "basically Zeitgeist 2.0 ... when you align all of the claims that this movie purports to be true, it is hard not to think it is some kind of joke." Even people who like some of its message aren't so impressed; Reality Sandwich noted its "disjointed editing" and "repetitiveness ... in place of actual evidence or arguments", and that its claims about free energy suppression advocated something that would violate the second law of thermodynamics. Thrive: The Story is Wrong but the Spirit is Right (Charles Eisenstein, Reality Sandwich)
Georgia Kelly of the Praxis Peace Institute pointed out the film's "reactionary, libertarian political agenda that stands in jarring contrast with the soothing tone of the presentation", and Gamble's push for shrinking the government as part of the solution to the problems, rather than better regulating the runaway libertarian agenda that caused them. She spoke to several progressives who were interviewed in the film, unaware that it would have such a political slant.Thrive: Deconstructing the Film (Georgia Kelly, Huffington Post, 28 December 2011) Praxis posted a greatly-extended version as a paper on the film and the organisation.Deconstructing Libertarianism: A Critique Prompted by the film Thrive (Praxis Peace Institute, February 2012)
Foster Gamble posted a responsehttp://www.thrivemovement.com/FG-Kelly-Response.blog which goes, "yeah but no but yeah" at length and claims that his libertarianism is different to both "so-called Left and Right", which are attached to "Collectivism". He expanded on his views in the paper Solutions / Liberty, which featured extensive quotes from Stefan Molyneux and such lesser lights as Ayn Rand and Ron Paul.Solutions / LIBERTY (Foster Gamble, thrivemovement.com)
===Filming under false pretenses===
Seven people interviewed for the film openly distanced themselves from the ideas explored in it, calling them "dangerously misguided". And Deepak Chopra was one of them! We hope this communicates how off the charts the crank level of this film actually is. The above seven produced the following signed statement as a group:https://thrivedebunked.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/throwing-thrive-under-the-bus-progressives-interviewed-in-the-film-distance-themselves-from-its-dangerously-misguided-ideas/
== Cast ==
* Foster Gamble - Creator of this "movement".
* Kimberly Carter Gamble - Co-creator and wife of Foster Gamble.
* Duane ElginA)
* - The Disclosure Project ufologist.
* Jack Kasher
* - Apparently, Greer brought his lawyer...
* Adam TromblyA) - Who Is Adam Trombly? indeed.
* Brian O'Leary - Astronaut, later free energy nut, died the year Thrive was released (the death was probably unrelated to the film release, probably...)
* Vandana ShivaA) - Anti-GMO activist.
* - Formerly great teacher turned homeschooler/unschooler.
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* Deepak ChopraA)
* David Icke - O, RLY?
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* Bill Still
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* Evon Peter
* - Spiritual teacher, author and entrepreneur.
* Elisabet SahtourisA) - Evolutionary biologist, futurist and business consultant.
* Amy GoodmanA)
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A) Note, however, that all these persons distanced themselves from the film after they saw the finished product, although Trombly was a bit late for the party.
==See also==
*Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, which similarly interviewed experts and quote-mined them to suit its agenda.
==External links==
*Thrive Debunked, a thorough refutation of the claims made by the film.
*Thrive on IMDb
==References==
Category:Conspiracy theories
Category:Films
Category:New Age
Category:Propaganda
Category:Ufology