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Originally Posted by Truthmatters  Im 50 and can remember when I really thought the world was a fair place. I now know better but knowing better does make me weary. The only fairness in it is when people like our Tommy lee character and me and you insist on and inforce justice. Not enough of us in this world do so injustice persists.
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Virtue of Selishness philosophy is having its effect on this society, there is no doubt about that.
I also saw this film and thought it superb.
The antagonist is, I thought, the perfect model of a the modern libertarian thinker...unfeeling, completely a sociopathic and psychopathic monster.
Those of us who are older remember when society was less likely to reward selfishness. Some of us can even remember when politicians, caught in lies, actually were forced to resign by their own parties.
We really are a nation of lies, now, folks.
We lie to each other and we lie to ourselves, too. We say lofty things and we lie about things like family values even as we systematically destroy families one stupid economic policy at a time.
We reward selfishness and hold the most effectively selfish as being the most valuable members of this society.
You are what you make.
How many of us know the name of the man who really was the person who made the internet possible? He GAVE the programs that make it possible to humankind, you know?
1/1000th the number of the people who can tell us who Bill Gates is, know his name, is my guess.
I am watching my society here in my little part of the world eat its own young.
It's heartbreaking to see kids I've known since they were little boys or girls, basically abandoned.
Let me tell ya..it's not much a nation for young men, either.
It not a nation now, it's more a boat load of squabbling interests fighting over too few lifeboats.
And some of us wonder why everyone in the world doesn't want to be just like us?
I marvel at our collective and I think WILLFUL blindness.