In the 2022 political drama How to Blow Up a Pipeline, one character in cahoots with an otherwise left-leaning group of radical environmentalists is a mild-mannered Texas family man named Dwayne (Jake Weary). His motivation to participate in terrorism is born of the targets’ machinations directly affecting him via eminent domain law.

That deprived him of a home for his budding family. In keeping with conservatives’ more practical concerns and disinclination to abstract too much, Dwayne was wooed only by an environmentalist agenda that would help preserve his private property. And while the object of Dwayne’s ire in the film was an oil company, the new oil, data, is beginning to well up and make its demands known.