Capitalism is a failure. There are plenty of disasters across the world that could have been prevented or their after effects could have been greatly relieved but thanks to greedy corporations and the capitalist ideology, these disasters occur and are never fixed.
Capitalism definition:
An economic system based on a free market, open competition, profit motive and private ownership of the means of production. Capitalism encourages private investment and business, compared to a government-controlled economy. Investors in these private companies (i.e. shareholders) also own the firms and are known as capitalists.
The main issue that I have with the Capitalist system is the 'profit motive' system of running things. If your main objective is profit, then ethics and humane actions are less important. Some examples would include global climate change, New Orleans & Katrina, West Virginia mining explosion, the BP oil spill, Bhopal chemical disaster, etc. To the corporation, there is no benefit or reward in fixing these disasters. In the capitalist system, when you spend money to fix something like this, your stock prices go down and you lose business and profit. In other words, you are either punished for helping people or rewarded for doing nothing. I have nothing against small businesses and the process of making profit, but it's when a business commits a terrible crime to humanity or the environment and does nothing for the sole purpose of keeping profit and income coming into the company. That peeves me off.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Dear Hollywood
Stop pumping out the same generic action, romance, cartoon, horror flicks. I understand it is good business to pump out as many movies as possible so more people will want to come to the theaters, but at least learn a lesson from the countless, brilliant movies that have ever been made. Brilliant movies are long, epic, have many brain bending twists, fantastic visuals/actors/aesthetics.
You are in the business of story telling and I'm somewhat sick of seeing unoriginal stories. However, I must say, Inception was great work. That is the kind of movie I ask of you. I want to see more originality, thought, and brain power involved in the process. To help you out, I shall list a few story ideas that I have come up with over the past couple months.
1. In the future, advancing technology has allowed us to create a spaceship that should allow us to live for vast amounts of time in the void of space. Unfortunately, due to war, global warming, and whatever other issues, the world meets apocalypse and almost all life is wiped from the face of the Earth. Many more years into the future, a somewhat more primitive race of humans discover the spaceship buried under sand or ice or what have you. The Earth is slowly recovering but not quickly enough for what's left of the human race. So, a group of people prepare the ship for launch. I'd call it an Ark of sorts.
2. A man learns he has cancer and has only a few days left to live. Plans the most
elaborate and fantastic death or suicide so he will be remembered forever.
3. The internet gains consciousness and becomes a super powerful god-like entity.
4. A student researcher working for a very well respected physicist is responsible for doing some kind of project, but skips it to go to a party or some other nonsense. It turns out that the project he was supposed to work on would finally determine how the Big Bang of the early Universe was triggered. Due to the strict nature of the physicist, the student decides to lie and states "God" was the conclusion of his research (which never took place). In order to defend himself, the student takes his 'research' to the local news station. Point: it causes a domino affect and a whole ass load of trouble for the respected physicist. But it all works out in the end and leave the audience guessing as to how the Big Bang evidence turns out.
I'd write the scripts or books myself but I'm not necessarily a writer. Get to it Hollywood! I've already given you a good start.
You are in the business of story telling and I'm somewhat sick of seeing unoriginal stories. However, I must say, Inception was great work. That is the kind of movie I ask of you. I want to see more originality, thought, and brain power involved in the process. To help you out, I shall list a few story ideas that I have come up with over the past couple months.
1. In the future, advancing technology has allowed us to create a spaceship that should allow us to live for vast amounts of time in the void of space. Unfortunately, due to war, global warming, and whatever other issues, the world meets apocalypse and almost all life is wiped from the face of the Earth. Many more years into the future, a somewhat more primitive race of humans discover the spaceship buried under sand or ice or what have you. The Earth is slowly recovering but not quickly enough for what's left of the human race. So, a group of people prepare the ship for launch. I'd call it an Ark of sorts.
2. A man learns he has cancer and has only a few days left to live. Plans the most
elaborate and fantastic death or suicide so he will be remembered forever.
3. The internet gains consciousness and becomes a super powerful god-like entity.
4. A student researcher working for a very well respected physicist is responsible for doing some kind of project, but skips it to go to a party or some other nonsense. It turns out that the project he was supposed to work on would finally determine how the Big Bang of the early Universe was triggered. Due to the strict nature of the physicist, the student decides to lie and states "God" was the conclusion of his research (which never took place). In order to defend himself, the student takes his 'research' to the local news station. Point: it causes a domino affect and a whole ass load of trouble for the respected physicist. But it all works out in the end and leave the audience guessing as to how the Big Bang evidence turns out.
I'd write the scripts or books myself but I'm not necessarily a writer. Get to it Hollywood! I've already given you a good start.
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