incredible to me that people can live through the last decade or two & not come away with the ironclad lesson that you need to be suspicious of anyone trying to whip you into an outraged frenzy in any context

The statue of Prometheus is finally finished. It was cast in Paris, crossed the Atlantic, and was assembled at Starbase. It took us 100 days to go from nothing to this. People of the West, we have lived through an era devoid of dreams, devoid of destiny. But the time has come to reclaim our dream of antiquity. In a few months, we will start building a new city. It will be the most magnificent city in all of history. After all, the great dream of the West has always been to rebuild Rome. Come walk beside us in this endeavor. The world is waiting.

It's important to realize that tribes like this aren't primitive. They're degraded. They don't represent humanity at an earlier stage of development. Every human on Earth is descended from a man who built a 1.8 million cubic ft boat to save all land-dwelling life on Earth. 1/

MARGIN CALL (2011) saves Jeremy Irons for nearly the final stretch, then gives him one of the movie’s best entrances. John Tuld walks into a room full of people panicking about billions and casually asks, “So what’s the problem?” Perfect.