Crash
Dear Friend,
It's been a while since I've seen a movie.
What with moving a few months ago, and just being swamped with work, by the time I finish up in the evening, I'm either too bushed, or just not into it.
Plus, we stopped our Netflix subscription when we moved, with the thought that "well, now that we have like five-thousand channels of cable TV, we'll never lack for something to watch".
Gosh has THAT been a disappointment! You'd think with so many options, you'd find SOME-thing that would captivate your interest for a half-hour, but nope -- no such luck.
And I'm not even a TV-watcher -- maybe only an hour or two a week.
How people can sit there upwards of 8 hours a day, I simply don't understand it.
Anyway, the other night, we did sit down and pressed a few buttons on our remote, and then somehow we wound up renting a movie from our cable television provider, and it was a damn good one.
The movie was "Crash" starring Don Cheadle, one of my favorite character actors out there today.
On the surface, the movie was about race relations.
It takes place (I think) in L.A., and shows you how prejudices and stereotypes have been so inculcated into certain people's lives, to the point where they're basically on "automatic" -- making judgments and day-to-day snap decisions, and incorporating these prejudices into their actions automatically.
It's like how you might make a decision about what clothes to wear outside, knowing it was snowing or raining on any given day -- you wouldn't go out of your "way" to decide, it'd kind of be like you'd automatically "know" what to wear already.
That's how some people are when it comes to prejudice.
But if you dig beneath the surface of "Crash", the movie is about much more than that.
It's really about how we're all connected in some way, to each other. About how the choices you make affect other people and how the choices they'll make, in turn affect you.
One of the best stories that shows how we're all connected, and one with a very happy ending where the good guys win and the guy gets the girl in the end, is in my Information Marketing Expo story which you can see right here: http://www.informationmarketingexpo.com
As you get older, you see the clarity of exactly how this works -- meaning, how we ARE all conected -- more and more in your daily life.
Now getting back to what the movie "appears" to be about -- prejudice -- here's something you may not know about me and you may be surprised to learn.
I happen to be a very prejudiced person.
See, I have an inherent dislike and an extremely low tolerance for, and yes I am very prejudiced against "stupid" people. And people who are very self-absorbed and have little to offer in the way of sharing ideas.
Which is apparently why I'm also a bit of a loner in my personal life -- I just can't seem to get over my inherent bias against people like that and I immediately dislodge them from my life.
In fact, I've secretly coated myself with my own special "asshole repellant", so people like that tend to shy away from me in the first place, like mosquitoes will stay away from you if you put on Avon's "Skin So Soft" before you go outside in the woods or someplace like that.
If you want my secret recipe for this repellant, let me know, and if demand is great enough, I'll spill the beans about it at my seminar in March -- http://www.informationmarketingexpo.com
And by-the-way, admission to the seminar goes up by $250 Dollars on January 1, 2006, so if you're interested in signing up, I'd get a move on, O.K.?
Go rent Crash this weekend, and then, once you've seen it, let me know how you liked it.
Now go sell something,
Craig Garber
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