Day: November 19, 2011

Thrive

Against our habits Leiiani and I watched a movie. Not a kid one. If you watch it with a 6 year old make sure to turn it off at or before 1h 20 (which I didn’t I waited until the first occurrence of the word eugenics) and watch the rest at night (which I haven’t yet). But you really should watch it. If it turns worse I’ll update the post tomorrow.

I had a link to the movie here but it was removed. The official website is here.

Found a new link.

Anyway, Leilani promised not to have night mares, and asked a lot of questions, and a few times I had to pause it to answer. One time the person interviewed tried to make sense of the power hunger of the ruling elite by saying: “… they think We are so much smarter than the rest, we really know how it’s done, we know what’s good for them we should rule the world…” and Leilani said: “You know I really believe this. We are, we do. We should rule the world.”

In the end, after watching the whole thing, talking with others about it and mentally digesting it, I find that there are too many topics and too few results or conclusion. It has lots of elements, some of which really appealed to me, and others I was willing to tolerate in the hope of getting more of “my” topics. I would not have listened to the whole Illuminati story, had it not been preceded with Tessla’s ideas and tauruses and crop circles. Having heard it it does sound plausible though. The end of the movie I thought was rather weak, but I still think it’s worth watching…

Leilani loved it though. When we went to the ATM at the bank the next day she commented: “I don’t want to go near a bank. You would not believe all the mean things they do. They actually take people’s money. And then they give them rotten oranges.”