New movie: MARGIN CALL, should be seen by all

The far-right Republicans who live in a hard encased bubble of their own making won't be able to understand--or even hear--this, but the rest of us can read the handwriting on the wall--strong warnings and predicted disasters, many of which have already come to pass in our world.  Because of the ignorant/naive (take your pick) bubble dwellers and the Wall Street-owned representatives they continue to vote for and cheer on, we will have to endure the economic/environmental cataclysm being brought down on all our heads.  We never seem to learn from history's lessons, and continually have to repeat them.

http://consortiumnews.com/2011/10/24/as-wall-streets-universe-collapses/

As Wall Street's Universe Collapses
By Lisa Pease

EXCERPT: The movie is reminiscent of Jared Diamond’s book Collapse, in which he demonstrates that short-term thinking and, particularly, cultures in which the elite separate themselves too far from the working class, lead inevitably to disaster and collapse of any given society.

The real issue is not how to deal with crises as they arise, but to see them coming and change course early enough to entirely avert them. When the elite are more closely tied to the workers, they feel the pain sooner and make appropriate course corrections. The further, however, the elite get from the workers, the more insulated they are, preventing them from seeing genuine problems until it’s too late to solve them.

I couldn’t help but think of climate change deniers, and the unhelpful choices we, too, will face if we don’t change our ways while there is still time. If we wait until the catastrophe is acknowledged and apparent, as these characters did, it will already be too late.

And the choices are the same at the personal level. By pursuing a certain way- of-life, are we alienating those we’re going to need later? By accumulating money, are we guaranteeing our future happiness? What else should we be pursuing?