The pathological pursuit of profit and power.

We got ourselves a catchy tagline.

I just finished watching the Corporation, and the related extras on the first DVD, cept for the commentaries, because if I wanted to watch the same movie again twice over, I would have. Or not, as in this case.

It's so slick. For a relatively low profile documentary made by college students, with an $8000 marketing budget (which by the way was very very smartly spent, their marketing team really know how to market) it's surprisingly slick. I really enjoyed it, and the related extras weren't that annoying either. Apart from the frustration of misunderstanding externalities, it was actually kinda thought-provoking.

The economics stuff is something that still confuses and annoys me. They'll mention something economics related, and i'll agree with them and then realise this isn't an mainstream economic idea. The idea makes perfect economic sense; why it hasn't been adopted is odd. I've gleaned that a) economics is being taught badly; if there are so many economic concepts which these people have to raise in order to be relevant, then there's a serious problem. and b) economics is still being misunderstand as a profession; it's primary occupation is to improve the quality of life for people. If that isn't happening, something's wrong.

I like the idea of trying to improve the world, but it's difficult. Very difficult. Almost difficult to the point of impossibility. There's so many issues which concurrently have to be tackled; establishing standards of life, population pressures, environmental concerns, sustainability, the list goes on. Even I can't figure it all out.

Maybe Chuck Norris can. Maybe.

Maths today was unproductive. Seriously unproductive. You know how you have those days where you just get in the zone, and you get heaps done, and by the time you look up at the clock, several hours have passed without your conscious notice? Today felt exactly like that, except nothing productive got done. Basically I wasted a lot of time, efficiently.

In other words: We had a montage alright, but you didn't get anything in the end.

Mountains're nice. Night.