Re: What Documentaries Influenced You Most and Why?

I saw a pretty good "Docu-drama" two nights ago "Goodnight and Good luck" about Edward R. Murrow and Joe McCarthy. I kinda don't think there are many real newsmen left, much less those who would risk everything to tell a story.

I've for probably at least a decade thought of the two party system as just two corporations with stockholders who are not the people they claim to represent. Its just which party at the time seems to exact a greater cost to the society to return rewards to their stockholders.

Don't know if anyone caught the "Happiness Index" which was a long term study by psychologist to determine the happiest countries in the world.. They found the criteria for a happy society was that people needed a sense of community, a sense of security (that they would be cared for no matter what), and a sense of that you are doing as well as your neighbors. People in Denmark overwhelmingly declare themselves as Happy. Denmark, the rainy cold and depressing looking socialist country with probably the worlds highest tax rate scored #1.

At least the US scored above Somalia, Afghanistan, and Iraq.