quote of the day

"It was very much intended as an elegy. There are things dying out as we speak, things that are coming into being. In a deeper metaphysical sense, there is the feeling of growing older and of the world changing and of loss. On the very simple level, the loss of my parents and how the world for me is really a different place--completely different without them. I'd like to think of these four characters--these two backward-looking characters and these two forward-looking characters. Preservationists-people who are trying to conserve the past in some way--George, the gardener, and Dave, whose circus world may be near an end. And there's a sadness, a definite sadness on both their parts. On the other hand, you have a guy who('s) talking about shit-eating rodents, cold-blooded vermin that are perhaps gonna do better than we do in the future. After all, they're less concerned with the individual at the expense of society as a whole. Maybe they'll replace us. And of course it is explicit with the robot guy when he says when the robots leave this building they'll take over. There may not be enough room for us or any other carbon-based life form on the planet. It's not just the end of the circus, it's the end of the carbon-based circus. And Rodney is celebrating it and he's not bemoaning the fact that the world may come to an end. It's 'hey, way to go.' It's something to be embraced rather than feared."

--Errol Morris, director of the documentary Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
(*thanks to Glenn for passing this along)