It’s hard for me not to go all nihilistic on all this, it’s not because I’m trying to avoid responsibility, or being self-centered, is because, uh, look, my definition of someone wise is, he who attempts to see all the angles without closing the door to a new one, and I try to see all the angles, all the possibilities, but unfortunately my door is closed, the more I dig into a subject, the nucleus, I end up with that, ultimately, not being important. Einstein said: It is a wonderful feeling to recognize the unity of a complex of phenomena that to direct observation appear to be quite separate things. What, because of our education, differentiates us from everything else is our ability to be conscious, our intellect, and that same ability is the one that makes us question, analyze everything else, and establish whatever we’ve established, but that ability ultimately doesn’t make us more or less important. You might disagree and say: of course it does, we can determine the faith of our children’s, how can you be so egoistic, we can determinate the faith of our planet, we’re more important than all the other species. I’ve said it before, even if we destroy the planet, we will go instinct and he will probably reconstruct itself, might take millions of years, but it will, and if it doesn’t, that’s not really a problem, because problem is created by human conscience, so there is no problem. We’re in a constant fight to overcome what we think is our limitation of mortality and of controlling the uncontrollable, nature, and we’re a small, very small dot in the history of this planet, and even a smaller dot in the history of the universe. Analyzing the present, this planet is a very small dot in the universe, this galaxy is one of the possibly 100 billion. For some people that is scary, I think that should liberate us. I don’t see any of this as negative, I see as positive, that’s why I like zen, it makes us understand that we must des-understand, it makes us be aware of that Einstein quotation.
Now talking about the subject, capitalism. I think everyone that either is against or in favor of capitalism have to acknowledge that, by you simply be reading this message you’re already part of it, indirectly, but you are. Some American said not that long ago: This is the best time in the history of civilization to be alive. His probably right, but that is correct for us, us sitting, writing in a movie forum, our fridge with fruits from all continents, our wife’s with affordable jewelry from african’s 21 century mining slaves, our gas cheap from exploitation of 3rd world countries to keep the oil price barrel stabilized, a part of the reason 3rd world exists is because we need them that way, but the problem in civilization has always been extremism, and now we have extreme poverty and extreme richness, and everything exists in a contrast with something else, you don’t know white without knowing black. I think Charles Bukowski said it best: beware of those that either detest poverty or are proud of it. The problem we face is in absurd distribution of wealth, it’s inequality, and I’m not sure if capitalism alone is responsible for that, I’m not sure if that’s not human nature being faithful to human nature. I think, that the way I think is possible because of capitalism in some ways.