As I read thru the news of food grain prices shooting thru the roof all across the globe (bothersome especially in this time and era when sky scrapers all stop short of stratosphere), I kinda sensed a connect, well MANY, and I aint the first one to do so, thats the beauty and the horror that we somehow don't quite find it surprising, we are used to seeing the calamities breaking all over only imminent, as devastating as they are. A sign that in absence of any clear vision for a "convenient" (need I say whose convenience?) solution to it all we are probably making our peace with it. Which also means the problems are here to stay, at least for a near foreseeable future, and we are hoping not all will be lost during this time. Katrina, Vilma, ... well Joe, buried in his BarkLounger, barely staying afloat, cares no so much more than tipping his chin and n saying "Yeah, I've seen it. What else are they showin'."
He wants to know what else are they SHOWIN'
If it were one of those doomsayer flicks it might start some thing like this... a thick wad of currency in your pocket, you walk into a store only to find the aisles all wearing a deserted look, the goods aren't there, even the bare minimum essentials aren't anywhere to be seen, they are nowhere, "where are the goods, I've got the money", you hear somebody shout to the heavens in exasperation, but who hasn't, on some aisles you see bigger wads of money, with notes some with SOS messages on them, nobody's paying attention to these wads, the goods it seems.... they kinda ... 'left' for want of our attention, pointing us back to that first transaction in the way of finding alternatives to barter system, "The thing's" exchange gave way to "something else's" exchange, and how, ever since, the attention moved over to that "something else (SE)".
That SE evolved into a being in its own right, took the center stage, hogged the limelight of the show of human race's ascend which was soon to be governed, driven and assessed on its yardsticks. "Th (The thing)" took a back seat to SE and all this while Th's attention deficit secretly wended its way towards near non existence. We never let go of our obsession for and clung steadfastly to SE thru it all, so much so that it divided the whole of human race into how one set of people saw it differently than the other, the new and the only religions thereof.
We wake up now to this reality that all these years we have worried our heads over the management of SE, while good ol' Th, the food, the air water and land, ecosystem, environment, the earth and the human race slowly but surely crept in a spot of bother. In absence of any incentives in terms of SE to keep an eye on Th, we in this amazing self conflict know what needs to be done, but so long have we been living in the world of SE, we compulsively run everything by SE to see if it conforms with its ways, and here we have serious apprehensions it does.
I would like to add that SE was worked over by us over a long period of time, as I said it evolved into a being of its own, like other laws of life and living it outlives a man's life span or time of its influence. It lives in our institutions, persists and evolve there, institutions that stay while we pass by. The notion of SE operates in the conscious of human race, which is divided as we are all individuals, but SE is united and knows where it wants to go. Like many laws of life and living it unites us and has a say over human race but not often is the case vice versa.
It oughta be.
It made sense to work out a thing and then entrust it to govern us as we cant keep thinking things over and over again, but it seems SE’s goals are not in line with idealism, like Malthusian observation’s SE sees no value in poor’s lives, but we do as a life is a life is a life. SE has no latitude for climatic concerns, and looks like having threatening levels of affinity with Malthusian observations "...Should success be still incomplete, gigantic inevitable famine stalks in the rear, and with one mighty blow levels the population with the food of the world..." but we cant afford to be that ignorant. We need to take a pause at some point and see that these parallels converge somewhere.
For the flick, I say Bruce Willis in the lead.
by Scott Mccloud a book that's worth its weight in gold. Its a comic book. Yes its written as a comic where the protagonist representing the writer walks you thru the tricks of the trade while making you richer with interesting facts from the history of comics , observations, working styles of various giants many other things. 
