Minority Report was good, especially compared to a lot of the crap we're getting - for higher priced tickets. I thought the story was a little weak, however. At least it wasn't well told. I liked Blade Runner better, although that was literally darker. You couldn't see so much. Yet, What was presented was effective.

The future? For those of us who make it there - We won't all do so - it'll be pretty much what we want it to be. However, There will be rules. Not the way there are rules now, which are made by the rich to crush the weak and poor.

I don't believe there will money in the future. Money exists for one reason only, namely so that some can have more of it, and more of what it can buy, than others. I don't believe in capitalism, nor do I believe in democracy, which capitalism comes from.

True, Capitalism wasn't always in it's current neoliberal (no rules for the capitalists), 'socialize the costs, privatize the profits' mode. (After WW2 there was a pact of sorts between labor and big business. That was broken by macho, too powerful capitalists.) But it's also my belief that there can't really be 'different' kinds of capitalism. The present unfettered capitalism, in which major thieves, namely folks who actually destroy lives (think pensions) via their thefts (Kenneth Lay, John Roth, etc) is merely the expression of capitalism's true colors.

Do I wish we 'were not' seeing capitalism's true colors? Of course. Until God removes this mad, demonstrably irreformable (the ruling class and it's spokespersons claim we're dealing with bad apples, not a bad system) system, I will always desire to see less cruelty and suffering rather than more.

40 million Americans don't have health coverage because neoliberal political leaders (who, wrongly, are 'capitalists' first and leaders second) tell us they can't afford social spending. But is 'that' affordable?!!! Let the corporations who aren't paying all of their taxes - in a myriad of ways - pay their taxes, for a start. Accelerated Depreciation rules allow corporations to 'legally' steal many billions in dollars ('deferred taxes' here in Canada) by simply lying about the status of their assets. They keep two sets of books, and in one, they are allowed to artificially accelerate the rate at which assets depreciate, affecting their taxation. The less the value, the lower the tax, if I understand this correctly.

Also, There's something like 5 TRILLION dollars (American) in offshore accounts, untaxed. Can you imagine what can be done by governments that actually represented the interests, not just of the capitalists (owners of capital), but the entire society? The UN has said that the only reason for offshore accounts is to avoid paying taxes. As Ghandi said when asked what he thought about Western civilization: 'What a wonderful idea'. In other words, Where is it? Together we might agree on rules that enable a functional, if imperfect, civilization, and so it was. But the powerful capitalist ruling classes (a minority) added their own rules, turning this civilization into a jungle in which the strong devour and enslave the weak.

Good deeds, fine rhetoric and even socially useful products, by corporations won't cut it - when they're 'also' ripping off the majority, some of whom are really hurting, in ways such as I've indicated. So get politicized, not used! You're either part of the problem, or part of the solution.

If you want to see a free world in which our human potential and creativity can be unleashed, but not at the expense of others, then you will want to not inadvertently give the scammers any more political power than they have. Getting wise to them is simply a matter of putting your 'politically smart' horse ahead of your 'wonderful world' cart. You have to first care. Then put your head up, look around and see what's going on. That's all, really.

When you aren't sure, Ask! (That's cryptic, because I don't feel I can say more.) But before you can even have a clue that questions need to be asked, you have to have a clue about what's going on.