Musings of an Idiot

Free Market!!!!

Money seems to be an illusion that is only real for the lucky. I recently had a discussion about free market or not, and as anyone who knows me can tell you - I am not really good at arguments and tend to go quite after the initial attempts at explaining my point of view because I fail to see the point in trying to convince the other person that one's view point is the right one when infact every person has their own reality and beliefs to deal with. So yeah it didn't particulary go well for me in that discussion but today I saw 'Enron: Smartest Guys in the Room' and it pretty much sums up the argument against a totally free capitalistic market {when seen as a companion piece to 'The Corporation' }. How could a company like 'Enron' defraud and cheat so many people without any remorse or regrets? And how can people have such a short attention span when it comes to issues like that and look at things in isolated glass structures instead of piecing together the various events and structures as a whole? We live in a society where money is ingrained into our psyche as the only thing worth striving for - when in fact there is a lot more to life than that. Money is a driving factor in anyone's life but it should never be allowed to become THE over-riding factor. If you want to read more about the Enron aftermath - here is the Wikipedia entry.

Talking of money - I finally decided to get an accountant for myself and for Unkreative Artists, since I need to be filing returns from next year after getting out of the current job. Plus this year - I asked for a couple of favours to get the returns for Unkreative Artists filed but I am afraid that it won't be possible doing that again and again. It means I will be spending some money to get the stuff done but it is better to be on the safe side as far as taxation and accounting is concerned.

We had a fantastic meeting/brainstorming session yesterday evening regarding 'Five' with all the actors involved and David Mamea - who is writing the script for it. And the outcome is that all of us are now waiting to see the magic translate onto page in a week or so. What we are doing with this is pretty insane but I guess that is the fun and the challenge of making this project happen. I will be going tramping with David this sunday to do location reccee if the weather holds up.

Till later,
Amit

Labels: Five, Introspection

posted by Amit @ 9:20 PM