I love this movie! Finally, a leveling of the playing field. Not in a, “Look what you’ve done! We’ll get even!” sort of way, but in a, “Now we know everything,” sort of way. I’ve been fleshing out an argument in recent AdPopulum posts that the world we (of a certain generation) grew up in no longer exists. There is no American democracy: we’re not even a country, we’re a corporation. There is no equity: there is only the hot potato exchange of debt. Nobody was even remotely punished for the actions in this film, and the very actions this film examines continue to this day fully unabated.

The world isn’t changing: It’s changed! There is no going back now. Wasting breath on regulation – or whatever else one might propose – seems completely flimsy and futile. The fact of the matter is the masters of the market have rebuilt the markets in their own image, and nothing will ever change that. Organized crime at its finest? You damn sure better believe it! But, notice that your president is in collusion, notice that all of the academic institutions, legislators, regulators, and sundry government agencies are complicit. Notice that we, too, are implicated with our relentless need for credit and consumption.

Inside Job relieves us all of the burden of having to wonder how the system actually works. No more conspiracy theories and elaborate charts of secret societies and obscure organizations (Masons, Bilderberg Group, Rothschilds, Rockefellers, etc.), the banking and MIC cabals have completely taken over society, and there is no longer a need for secrecy on their part.

Where does that leave the rest of us? I propose we take the information presented in this film – whether it be the stunning panoramas of global metropolitan areas or the explanations of derivatives – and figure out how to exploit the system that takes so much joy in exploiting us. Do what the system does: ignore protests and work proactively to build a better life for your share-holders. There’s seven billion hungry mouths to feed on this planet, so let’s hang up the Tea Party, and Liberal Agenda, and Constitutional Republic, and righteous indignation nonsense and get to work.

These are the people that run our lives. How does that make you feel?