Well, finally on this podcast, we tackle one of the defining political films of the end of history.

I'm going to stop.

The first rule of Michael and us is every movie is the end of history.

Now, I'd also like to read briefly from an article by Mr. Roger Ebert called A Seed in the Balky with Bill Clinton.

This is from February 3rd, 2000. Towards the very

end of Bill Clinton's presidency, Ebert and him got together in the White House to have a discussion

about some recent movies. The president is actually quite a cinephile. I don't know if you know that.

Imagine me to fly on the wall in that conversation. Think of the things you'd learn. I mean, you can be because there is video footage of it

that you can look up on YouTube right now. And there's also Ebert's article, which I'm going to quote

from now. So Clinton enjoyed Three Kings by David O. Russell. He enjoyed American Beauty.

Quoting from Ebert, Clinton also found David Fincher's

Fight Club, Last Fall's anti-consumerist movie with Brad Pitt and Edward Norton, quote,

Quite Good, unquote. The film began with an attack on prosperity. That's very eloquent.

The film began with an attack on prosperity, which its heroes found so empty that they founded secret clubs where they could seek meaning in their lives by beating one another up.

Norton and Pitt played their roles really well, Clinton said, and Helena Bonham Carter was a very compelling figure in it.

I'm just resisting the urge to make a joke about Bill Clinton and secret

clubs. But continuing from the article, but it was, quote, a little too nihilist, unquote,

for him, Clinton said. It's simply not true that the material advances we've had are inherently

bad or empty. They give you the power to define your life more.

Oh, man.

And I don't, and I don't mean just for rich people.

I mean people who have a decent middle class life.

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