Interrupting the political flame-fest for a Tim quote from the latest EW, regarding the fan-based marketing for Serenity:

"I just hope he didn't f--- it up," he deadpans. "I want to direct the next movie."

"he" being Joss?

"he" being Joss?

Yeah.

Actually, he was referring to me. I ghostdirected the movie.

You read it here first. If it goes wrong, it is P-C's fault.

Gus, casting one's mind back -- I think my question was in response to a post you made where you said "Moon" wasn't about libertarian ideas. Thanks for agreeing that, at least to some degree, it is. But I wasn't really arguing the merits of Libertarianism. I would be a sorry advocate for it, since I don't fully embrace it.

I'd call myself a small "l" (L) libertarian. And I disagree about everything government doing in Katrina being a disaster. (granted, city, state and federal relief efforts were cocked up for days. Every link in the chain, it seemed, failed at some point, still:) Thousands of people were rescued off rooftops, for instance. The Coast Guard is part of of the government, and they just rocked like a rocking thing. I don't see how private industry does stuff like that.

I think my question was in response to a post you made where you said "Moon" wasn't about libertarian ideas.

Yup, in Gus "The Minearverse 4: Support Group for Clumsy People" Aug 18, 2005 6:20:31 am PDT :

But that is not what it is about. It is about misshapen Manny making a connection to Wyoh. It is about Mike being existentially bereft, and his being willing to make any change to reality to suit those people who "get" him.

Thanks, Nilly. BTW -- it's about that stuff Gus points out, too. Just sayin'.

it's about that stuff Gus points out, too.

When I first read the book, as a kid, I couldn't see anything other than the stuff that Gus pointed out (then again, I was a rather silly kid. For example, I didn't see the Christian stuff in "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" until like the 17th time I read the book, when I was already twenty years old). Everything other than the characters connecting went way over my head. Only on a re-read, a few years back, did I realize it has some actual politics in it, too.

Here is my take: Individual effort (non-governmental) was and is more effective in the Katrina thing. Everything government has done around this has been a disaster, impeding individual effort.

Government? Bad, in this situation.

I don't think so. My primary beef with the Federal government (I'm not a Louisiana resident, so I don't feel like I get to complain about the Louisiana staties and the New Orleans locals) is that it took them too long to act, and that at first, they seemed paralyzed. It seemed clear to me t font ="Mondy Morning QB" that the state and city officials were going to be incapacitated, if they got the big one, and it seems to me like that should have been obvious to the all levels of government, even before the the storm struck. I see this as an issue of incompetence, shameful, deadly incompetence.

Here, however, is my question: What natural forces of the marketplace were missing for the people in the Domes?

Supply.