21 the movie. Should Education be free?

21 is a movie Staring Kevin Spacey its based on the 2002 nonfiction book (by Ben Mezrich) Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions.

Its a good film and worth a watch. All though I thought for people who were that clever...get some better secret signals, not so obvious.

I'm picking this up as it's a similar theme to the free medicine story I mentioned in Hancock and the all heart campaign. In the film the genius student needed $300,000 for his education as a scholarships are very limited.

Would society be better off if students did not need to struggle to pay for their education or is it character building to have to do these things. Does it mean that students who really want it go for it and don't just stay in education because its easy?

May be more students would have more time to excel and develop existing interests while exploring new ones or having life experiences that could lead to great things for them. Instead they are waiting tables or serving drinks in a bar. In the film they explore this with a nice twist.

Should education be free? Its an open discussion comments thoughts please!

(note) without doubt i.e up until 16years old education should be free to every child on the planet no questions.

I am talking about further education, college, university or similar.

I AM LEGEND The Butterfly Effect

Due to the theme of the film I am legend I'm not sure that the messages were really that hidden. One part i did like was the scene in the bank vault with all the money on the floor, money is useless without the people their to pack your groceries or cook your food or drive the bus or play music for you to buy. Whereas people could survive without money. But The common theme running through the film that killed of most of New York and the world, or turned them to light avoiding flesh eating zombies. Was the BUTTERFLY.

The Butterfly symbolizes change, do we need to change something?
Will Smith was one man trying to fix a problem he believed he could do it.
References to changes medical companies need to make as they rush medicines in without checking side effects or educating people.
If humans were almost extinct would we provide free medicine to the help, at what point when society was back on its feet would we start charging again?

Theory

The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale alterations of events. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different. Of course the butterfly cannot literally cause a tornado. The kinetic energy in a tornado is enormously larger than the energy in the turbulence of a butterfly. The kinetic energy of a tornado is ultimately provided by the sun and the butterfly can only influence certain details of weather events in a chaotic manner.

Recurrence, the approximate return of a system towards its initial conditions, together with sensitive dependence on initial conditions are the two main ingredients for chaotic motion. They have the practical consequence of making complex systems, such as the weather, difficult to predict past a certain time range (approximately a week in the case of weather).

In summary small things can make a difference, just decide that you can.

Batman the Dark Knight hidden message

This weekend was fantastic, I spent it in Montreal with my girlfriend and some friends lazing by the pool and having a barbecue.

The next day we went to see the Dark Knight. What a great film. You know recently I've been pointing out hidden messages or things I notice in films. Well the whole hospital free medicine thing came up again in the film. Here is what I think.

1st the Joker burns all the money owned by the mob. I think the mob is a symbol of any corporate or organization that is money driven and not people driven.

In this case the health care systems or drug companies, and the mob do sell drugs.

Then, not long after, the Joker blows up Gotham hospital.

Further on in the film the corrupt cop blames rising hospital bills of her mum for her corruption.

I then did a bit of looking on the web and many other had various hidden message ideas. I then came across this site that has all sorts of interesting ideas and thoughts.

http://blog.mises.org/archives/008317.asp

Who knows where this is going and may be I'm looking for the same things or may be the universe is pushing for a new way of thinking. One that turns the tide of people just looking out for themselves and thinking that we are better because of status or wealth.

RIP Heath Ledger you played an amazing Joker.

Peace

Todays little messages

Ok while writing the blog I will always try and point out the serendipity, or event, message the I get each day. Today I ended up watching a film I don't usually do this on a Friday afternoon as I'm usually working so I picked one from a selection and not only did I love it but the same message came to me again that I got 4 days ago in a book, and the same message showed up 2 days ago while flicking through a magazine. I just stopped randomly on a page and there it was. "Believe"

For me this is important right now as I'm embarking on a huge task to build an amazing company that is going to be very successful and make a difference.

Thanks

Peter Pan

Today I watched "Finding Neverland", fortunately my girl friend had gone out and she missed the inevitable tears of joy and sadness that this film causes. If you haven't seen it, its a story about JM Barrie (creator of Peter Pan) and how he came up with the idea. I have no idea of how true to life the story is or not,(and I don't care) the fact is for me this film highlights several things, its a reminder not to forget our inner child, that life is short, and if you are creative to keep going until you find the environment that allows you to best flourish and grow those talents and dreams, in the film he had the support of the wealthy Theater owner and needed a chance meeting with a family to give him the inspiration that led to the writing of Peter Pan. All too often we fear sharing our early ideas of poems, business ideas, songs, paintings, films, games etc in case people don't like them or we get a bad reaction, well that may happen but somewhere like Barrie you will find the people who will help you grow.

Like in the film life consistently presents itself with opportunities to enable us to make our dreams come true, we just need to open our eyes and bee aware of them.
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When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change.