I like French movies. For the most part they are off-kilter, and not obvious. Which means that they may not come from the mind, they may not come from the horizontal.
But, from time to time, they slip through a movie that pushes the band wagon, pushes the societal conspiracy to enslave you.
The movie that has been coming up in my mind with a sense of urgency, is the movie “My Best Friend”.
That is a move where the main character, an art dealer, forced, by a bet, to befriend someone.
Just like a company, shrinking looks like a good way to increase profitability.
But business may be (it isn’t) about profitability, but life isn’t.
When someone asks me what is the surest path to Expanding Human Being, I always bring up Bob the Butler. Or the quote and principle from the Neal Stephenson book: Diamond Age. Start living an interesting life. When your goal is not to win every step of the way, it is not to shrink to the size that you can manage, but to grow through trials and failures to the sky: i.e. an interesting life.
