"C'mon, let's go, schlep-rock!"

I want you to watch this, one of the best scenes in a fantastic movie - Boiler Room.

I have intense admiration for this character. Not for his obvious materialism, but for his complete and utter lack of fear. The guy comes in the room, says his piece, and gets out, but not before instilling a potent double-whammy of intimidation and hope upon the listening ears of his charges - all in less than five minutes.

I see some comments underneath the video calling the character an "arrogant asshole." I've worked with those before; arrogant assholes do not gently and serenely inform an unsuspecting seat-stealer "I'm sorry, man, that's my seat," and then graciously accept the apology of the newly wised-up. No, it's over-simplification to label him "arrogant."

I think it's more accurate to describe this man as having zero tolerance for bull. If the world in general (and you and me in particular) could lower our collective tolerance for bull, how could it not make things better?

In my humble experience, BS never makes anything better. It slows us down, wastes our resources, dilutes our value. BS is what allows concepts like political correctness, equal opportunity, affirmative action, fairness doctrine and hate speech to exist and thrive.

I'm dedicating myself to an anti-BS crusade. I want to eliminate bull from my life as thoroughly and globally as I possibly can. Life is short, and time is worth too much to piss it away on bull, be it in the form of people or ideas. The folks who don't understand this attitude can either honestly seek elaboration or get out of the way, but there will be no mounting a defense for BS. I think the Affleck character believes the same.

I'll give you some context later on about why I'm even talking about this, but I can't divulge secret plans right now.