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What is that line in the Pink Floyd song? "I got thirteen channels of shit on the tv to choose from..".

Netflix is beginning to resemble that. I mean I love Netflix but its becoming a little hit-or-miss. The alternatives (proprietary content from HBO Now) are becoming more alluring.

Anyway I just signed up a year's subscription with MUBI. I haven't had a chance to see "Junun" yet, but I just recently watched "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" by Mira Nair. I was blown away by the quality of the Music/Soundtrack in that.

I don't know the precise style of music in the movie (Qawwali/Hindustani???) but I have never heard anything so amazing.

Last time I flew into the US I was reading a copy of The Reluctant Fundamentalist on the plane. But I'm white, so nobody cared.

Next time I think I'll try The Anarchist Cookbook.

Why is the global witch hunt against terrorists (excuse me, Muslims) acceptable, but bringing people like the bankers at HSBC, who enabled drug lords and the like for over a decade, not? HSBC's actions were far more detrimental to society than any terrorist attack, yet no one will ever be punished for their actions - not anyone involved in the crash of 2008. Both are clearly wrong, but given how hypocritical Western society actually is, it is obvious one can get away with anything as long as you're part of the upper echelons / in group. And abstract stuff like financial crimes are not so emotionally tinged as concrete crimes, like murder. And federal prosecutors are lazy sociopaths who haven't got the stomach to prosecute powerful people anymore...

This probably explains why people get more conservative as they get older - they see how screwed up the world is and retreating into pseudo-authoritarianism makes sense, emotionally. But conservative values these days are just cover for the authoritarians. I guess I am complaining about the fundamental lack of integrity of Western society that is so obvious anymore. On that note, I just picked up "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" which looks like a good read.