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...beginning, God did not create "high" and "low" movies. For filmmakers from Chaplin to Hitchcock, "unpopular" was not a badge of pride for movies but rather a sign that they were somehow flawed. Now, of course, we have two contenders: in that corner, weighing in at $100 or $200 million, are "blockbusters" like Armageddon; and in this corner are the 98-pound weaklings of the film industry, "independent" movies like Gods and Monsters. From the former we can expect special effects, saccharine plots and Bruce Willis; while from the latter we can expect intellectual affects, subtle plots and a British...
After an exceedingly well-executed song-and-dance sequence involving a large cast of newborn babies and a whole lot of urine, the movie falls into something of a rut. The adventure gets a little too ridiculous, as the babies somehow find themselves in some woods in the middle of nowhere. Seasoned "Rugrats" viewers will feel a small alarm go off in their heads: something's wrong with this picture! What's wrong is that now, rather than the plotline and humor coming from the precocious babies or the silly, stupid adults, they're coming from a far too unlikely...
Institutions somehow become much more desirable once they are pulled slightly out of reach. Harvard itself thrives on this principle. The University, no less than any other place with high walls and many guards, depends on its inaccessibility to attract candidates for membership. It entices students from all over the world to apply and, with a remarkably high degree of reliability, to get rejected. The University knows it wouldn't have quite so many applicants; the lower the chances of getting in, the more desirable the possibility...
There might arise, however, an interesting question of motive. The guilt-mongers would have us believe that no matter how beneficial the ends, a self-interested profit motive is morally compromised and somehow socially irresponsible. Quite the opposite. Self-interest is the easiest and most efficient means of coordinating, through Adam Smith's invisible hand, this vast, well-oiled machine that provides for all of us. As a philosophy, this free, consensual give-and-take for mutual benefit should be the only one acceptable to us. Any alternative, either morally or autocratically coercive which dictates who should give...
...Preliminary evidence suggests that the brains of children with ADHD are somehow different from those of their unaffected peers. But no one knows for sure whether that is due to normal variation or the result of a true biochemical defect...