Tag: economics
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The Shared Window Into the Infinite
I’m spending the week finishing If These Fists Could Talk, and one major update is a simplification of the ROBA Hypothesis. I had originally thought that the capacity for reciprocal, object-based aggression (ROBA) produces a sensation of apocalyptic dread, which is resolved via deferral. However, since ROBA is agnostic as to the order of events…
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Human vs. Higher Exchange
The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 calls on us to avoid hypocrisy, love our neighbors as ourselves, and do not return hate for hate or blow for blow. We’re to offer hospitality even to our enemies and avoid making a show of charity. We’re to cut out things in life that cause us…
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The Running Man Still Predicted An Optimistic Future
In The Running Man the future is depicted as an authoritarian police state with a broken economy. When our man Richards (Schwarzenegger) faces airport security and has no travel pass, he rummages through his bag until a line of anxious tourists forms behind him. “We got a plane to catch!” one yells, so the guard lets…
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Capitalising off the Studio System
Now that I’ve made the case that even in this economy filmmakers are still incredibly well off, I thought I’d go a bit further… no, more like jump off a cliff, and make the case that because it’s so easy to make films, it’s possible to make money (hopefully profit) at the cost of the…