Some stuff I saw today.

"We demand that your governments give us 100 BILLION DOLLARS, or terrors will be unleashed upon your country, devastate it's economies, the people will suffer!"


Sound familiar?


Well, no wonder, you must have just watched IGOR today, like me! Watch as the Evil Scientists blackmail the world into giving into their demands for cash, in order to enrich themselves!







Oh, what, you thought I was talking about America's Banks and Auto Industry?





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Nah. Those guys are Truly Evil, Igor is PG rated... I mean corporate America is blackmailing/ demanding hundreds and hundreds of billions, otherwise the damage will push the whole world into years of recession and blah blah blah.








Also, I watched Quarantine today. Scary. But there's a very important lesson that people can learn from it:





Sometimes, you can't save EVERYONE. When you have someone who is guaranteed going to die, you can't go risking all these healthy people's lives.





If someone had stood up and culled out the infected while they were still catatonic, everyone else would have been fine.





Instead, they tried to save everyone. And in the end, everyone dies. It's that OVEROPTIMISM thing I keep talking about. In an ideal world, everyone would be wealthy, and no one would be unemployed or homeless... but in fact, this is not such an ideal world as you might hope.



You know what? It's become painfully obvious that in this economic crisis, YOU CAN'T SAVE EVERYONE. There's just too much damage, and not enough resources. At the end of the day, you gotta make some tough decisions. Who will live, and who will die, so to speak.


At the end of the day, everyone knows this. But, sometimes the heart rules the head, and some decisions are just too painful to make all at once.