Two random thoughts

Do “written-and-directed-by” movies and quirky movies have a large overlap?

It occurs to me that hypercapitalism contains at least one flaw: every participant is thinking, “Yeah, but what’s in it for me?” Cf. this from the fall of the Berlin Wall post:

Stasi files demonstrate how members of the regime did not trust their colleagues, or their subordinates — and that this lack of trust gravely undermined their ability to blunt the rising revolution. And so, when tens of thousands of Berliners headed toward the wall in the minutes after the news conference, the entire system cracked.