I know this movie has been out for half a
decade, but it is still pertinent particularly with the underlying thread of
manipulation inside the United States government beholden to Wall Street. Between working for Arthur Andersen when
Enron went down and my other studies and readings this film lays the functional
interplay between basic human greed and the cognitive dissonance spouted by our
one party system that commandeers the financial markets. If you watch this, have, or do so in the
future do so with the spectrum wide that this pervasive entitlement to wealth
and distancing from the consequences of that egoistic pursuit on other members
of society is a pernicious cascading pall draped across our democracy that
folds over not only banking, but the healthcare, fossil fuel, transportation,
education (a subset of banking), housing (as a subset of banking), public
safety (private prisons), agriculture, etc. to promote what is profitable for
industries in the short term ahead of what beneficial to the public in the long
term. The systematic lobbying and campaign
financing control purchased democracy due to very specific changes in laws
primarily occurring in the 1980’s intends to confuse profit for work via some
fandangle filigreed apple cake of the American dream .
Maybe you or people you know you are aware of what has transpired on
Wall Street and you vote to fight that, in spite of that, in support of that,
or claim ignorance. I had the benefit of
going to one of the best business schools on the planet and then getting to see
fraud up close on both sides of the political aisle in my professional
career. I cannot recommend this film
enough. If it is your first time seeing
it I imagine you will never look at a Clinton or a Bush etc. the same way ever
again.
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