Keynesianism in The Fifth Element
March 7, 2009 – 2:57 pm by JohnZorg: “Life, which you so nobly serve, comes from destruction, disorder, and chaos. Now, take this empty glass. Here it is, peaceful, serene, boring. But if it is [knocks glass off table] destroyed… [robots come to clean it up] Look at all these little things! So busy now! Notice how each one is useful. What a lovely ballet ensues, so full of form and color.
“Now, think about all those people that created them. Technicians, engineers, hundreds of people who will be able to feed their children tonight so those children can grow up big and strong and have little teeny weeny children of their own and so on and so forth, thus adding to the great chain of life. …You see, Father, by encouraging a little destruction, I’m, in fact, encouraging life.”
