I've seen warehouses like this. Looks crazy zoomed out, but it's stupid super-organized for sure. You really want to hat tip the *engineering and who design of the system that tracks everything. And raise a glass to the pour pickers who have to run the aisles.

And this is tangential, but... *books!

^yeah, leave it to Farhad to provide us with a true downer...

'oh no a couple of baby birds died!'
'150 people were just murder in a hotel in India because a group of men thought they represented the modern world's disregard for traditional values'
'okay, you win'



Oh, but the real comment I was going to make concerns this sentence:

"Compassion, mercy and real altruism are human perversions that don't fit into the natural world."

Well, there are some people who would argue against that. Without delving into the details (I'm going to bed), I'll just mention that E. O. Wilson has been getting a lot of press lately about a book he has produced which outlines 'the super-organism', the colony of individuals so entirely devoted to their communal objective that they frequently seem to act with no individual self interest. Beyond that there are tons of anecdotal situations where mother animals adopt unrelated or barely related orphans, etc., etc., and there are all sorts of horrible things humans do to each other and to animals (killing them for fun, for instance).

Life is pretty dern complicated.

The highpoint of Douglas' career IMO, Falling Down rocks.. I'd call politics and comedy tags here if I had the power. I can so sympathize with his character in this movie, but this scene is one of those that attacks the little guy, I mean this shop-owner probably buys his soda for more than the big chains can sell it for, which is why his prices are high, What annoys me is like our gas-stations, which are all super-organized, they probably get their sodas cheap as hell, yet the consumer price is double that of grocery stores..*looking around for something baseballbat-shaped*