scarfman | The classical answer is sovereignty, Charlie

The accelerated class I'm in this half-semester is a multi-disciplined course for English, Philosophy and Economics whose premise is, basically, Nash was right when he said Smith was wrong - one of the first week's assignments was to watch A Beautiful Mind. In the last two weeks I've read Dickens' Hard Times and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (the non-accelerated version of the syllabus includes Death of a Salesman but I read that thirty years ago when I was a theatre major), and shorter pieces from Engels, Plato, Aristotle, Weber, Dante, fairy tales and the Old and New Testaments. Next week we have to watch The Matrix, which I disliked when it was in theatres just because I'd hit my tolerance point for adventure films where everyone wears black leather; in recent years I've thought I'd probably like it if I saw it again, and now I'll find out.

For this week we were to watch Oliver Stone's Wall Street. When Charlie Sheen asks Darryl Hannah, "What do you want?" I considered what my answer would be to that question, and this is what I came up with.

"A happy family, and to draw a cartoon every day which is read by people all over the world.

"Oh wait. I have that. Never mind."