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Reminds me of: "Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain. [Puts and empty water glass on his desk] Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction,
by ACow_Adonis 9y ago
Reminds me of:
"Oh, Father. You're so wrong. Let me explain.
[Puts and empty water glass on his desk]
Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder and chaos. Now take this empty glass. Here it is: peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is destroyed
[Pushes the glass off the table. It shatters on the floor, and several small machines come out to clean it up]
Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. A lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color. Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people, who will be able to feed their children tonight, so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny children of their own, and so on and so forth. Thus, adding to the great chain of life. You see, father, by causing a little destruction, I am in fact encouraging life. In reality, you and I are in the same business.
- digitaltrees 9y agoFifth element. That’s a Deep cut.
- djsumdog 9y agoI don't remember this scene. I might have to watch it again.
- celticninja 9y agoWhen Gary oldman is talking to the priest, then he chokes on a cherry and none of his machines can save him.
- armenarmen 9y agoAaah Keynesians
- dang 9y agoPlease don't post unsubstantive comments here, let alone ideological flamebait. Those are just the sort of things we're trying to avoid on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- roywiggins 9y agoAha, that's the broken window fallacy, I think.
- slg 9y agoAKA the broken window fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
- gwern 9y agoOn the other hand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable_of_the_Bees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fable_of_the_Bees