Ben Kingsley in "Sneakers"

what is the name of the song in the background?? i love it

plsss, does anyone know it?

Cosmo is mentally fractured, but he's still a brilliant cookie. It's good, when we see younger Cosmo arrest in the beginning, we see him kick out a window in his struggle with the cops, a little foreshadowing of how unhinged he will become. But he's right, there is something of an info war going on.

Every time I see some action regarding the various states in the world, I always see the "story" and then look around for the "REAL" story. Far from being the conspriracy route necessarily but oftentimes, the real reasons for things are far more - enlightening - might be imagined. Cosmo is broken as a moral person, but he is right at the end of the day. So whether it's war, markets, employment or other stuff - nothing is exactly as it appears.

A very underrated, under-appreciated movie. Mixture of The Sting and Mission:Impossible, even though it's just Mission: Very Difficult. I know it's mostly the 1960s and 1970s generation's type of suspense adventure. Good music and pretty smart script.

nasum made an excellent song out of this quote

I think the little discussion from the server room is entirely apt. "Posit, people think a bank might be financially shaky...." There a multi-trillion dollar real world example of that going on right now.

For some reason I still find that argument both compelling and relevant...Cosmo is crazy but unfortunately....he's not wrong.

proadmin1 you just proved avth76 point and undermined the argument that reality is just perception. Why do "people think a bank might be financially shaky" because the money underlying it is based not on real tangible assets but on fictional 1s and 0s. When the worlds highest financial investors stop investing in assets and start speculating on an inflated value of an asset the markets become shaky. They stopped investing in the real measurable asset and started speculating on the 1s and 0s.

It's a meta-argument, in the sense that a bank could very easily be based on a gold or some other tangible standard and even set at a 1:1 lending ratio and be legitimately perfectly sound, in real terms.

But the perception could still be that the bank was financially shaky.

Whether or not, in it's initial condition it actually is or not is irrelevant, it's the perception that it is that is the point.

This is entirely separate from the merits of ratio / leveraged based lending practices.

Furthermore, In a sense I don't disagree, in that objective reality is the final determinant.

But since nobody has perfect knowledge, a condition where people have limited amounts of available information or (conversely) too much data to analyze effectively exists, you end up in this same position, evaluating a circumstance and making a decision based on perception rather than reality.

I look at it this way: reality is "what is"....case in point: A person on LSD thinks they can fly...so they jump off the roof. Their perception is that they CAN fly....but the reality is they hit the pavement......HARD.

reality is reality.

perception is NOT reality, it never was, but many people benefit from obscuring the line btwn reality and fiction.