
Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview
Filmmaker Joseph Ohayon interviews scientists, philosophers, and spiritual teachers about whether humanity is living through the breakdown of one worldview and the difficult birth of another. The film moves through the familiar list of twenty-first century pressure points, ecological strain, economic instability, and a widening sense of disconnection, and asks its interview subjects what comes after the industrial-age model of endless growth and separation from nature stops working. Voices from science, contemplative traditions, and systems thinking each offer a piece of the argument, comparing the current moment to earlier civilizational turning points where an old paradigm had to die before a new one could take hold. Rather than settling on a single fix, the film treats the crisis itself as the labor process of its title, painful but potentially generative. It stays talk-driven throughout, built almost entirely from interview footage, and functions as a survey of what a post-materialist, ecologically grounded worldview might actually look like if enough people adopted it.