At The Movies

Catherine Austin Fitts has a blog post that says we can learn a lot about how the real world works by going to the movies.

Michael Corleone: “My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.”
Kay Adams: “Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don’t have men killed.”
Michael Corleone: “Oh. Who’s being naive, Kay?”
The Godfather, Part I
A true family is a group of people who invest in each other’s skills and future. Within such a family, no person is expendable.
Throughout history, financial wealth has been organized around families. Many of the powerful institutions in our society, in fact, represent intergenerational pools of capital — for example, the Bechtel Corporation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Glenmede Trust Company
If we are to build a strong economy, it will be made up of strong families. Either families in the traditional sense, or families that we create. Many of us are members of families that, like the Corleone family in The Godfather series, have been torn apart by the manipulation of our ambition, greed, and naivete by powerful financial and business interests. Husbands and wives are turned against one another. Children and parents disappoint each other and grow apart. Sibling rivalry threatens family interests.
Most of us assume that The Godfather films — Part I, Part II, Part III — are movies about an organized crime family. The reality is that we all live inside The Godfather’s world. The Godfather series has much to teach us about navigating in our current environment.

Read the whole thing. Especially check out the comments.
Cross Posted at Power and Control


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5 responses to “At The Movies”

  1. Larry Sheldon Avatar
    Larry Sheldon

    I’m sorry.
    I don’t buy it when Gore peddles it.
    I don’t buy it when Hanson peddles it.
    I don’t buy it when Mann peddles it.
    I don’t buy it when Pitts peddles it.
    And I don’t buy it when escheie peddles it.
    You can not learn anything useful about reality from models, movies, or anything but reality.
    At most you can learn something about the authors of the movies and other models, but I don’t think there is much there worth the effort.
    If you want to learn about reality, you have to study reality.

  2. Catherine Austin Fitts Avatar
    Catherine Austin Fitts

    Larry:
    Sounds quite sensible. The problem is that covert cash flows and operations have a profound influence on our lives and access to information about these are hidden, invisible. Many of the people who have tried to provide information about these subjects find it much safer to tell what they know in fiction. Trying to use non-fiction creates legal liabilities and sometimes physical danger.
    As a result, trying to access this information by direct experience is dangerous or impossible, trying to access it through intellectual sources is time consuming and draining and the movies provide a practical way for busy people to do their best.
    Catherine Austin Fitts (not Pitts)

  3. Donna B. Avatar

    Whose reality, Mr Sheldon?
    I have two families – my father’s and my mother’s.
    My father’s side is all inclusive, once a member always a member, and everybody has faults but we love them anyway.
    My mother’s side is “a side must be taken in any dispute, forgiveness is conditional, and gossip reigns.
    When my mother and father divorced after 40 years, my mother’s family disowned my father. Except for one brother, who disowned my mother.
    My father’s family welcomed my mother at family reunions right along with my new step-mother.
    Family dynamics are a good vehicle for understanding larger scale interactions.
    Now, that said, I found the comments at that site disturbing at a conspiracy theory level. Perhaps that is because I don’t understand what’s been going on. I’ve just always been suspicious of anything that might elicit a “Wake Up People!”

  4. M. Simon Avatar

    Donna,
    Read:
    http://solari.com/articles/scoop_narco_dummies.htm
    And then come to your own conclusion. Another name for what we are going through is a secular decline. Profits are insufficient to support the debt load. There is a lot of new technology coming on line that could reverse that. Basically what it means is that R&D has been underfunded. Too much $$$ went into consumption.

  5. Donna B. Avatar

    I read, and I think I understand. I don’t if I’m not quite smart enough, or way to naive. Or both!