Even Stanley Kubrick was marvelously prescient about the world's monetary system:

More worrisome right now, according to Kubrick, is a meltdown of the world's monetary system:

"A more likely threat is the social upheaval that would be caused by an economic catastrophe triggered by the failure of the largest banks in America, which are presently carrying huge loans that can never be repaid as assets. Most of the ten major banks in the US are technically bankrupt. It's really 'the emperor's new clothes.' They would be legally bankrupt if they were honest and stopped treating these loans as assets."

He concludes, "I would certainly not put any substantial funds in any bank today."

"The Vietnam war was, of course, horribly wrong from the start, but I think it may have taught us something valuable. I think the message has certainly gotten through that you don't even begin to think about fighting a war unless your survival depends upon it. Fancy theories about falling dominoes won't do in the future."

"One of the notable things about the Vietnam war was that it was manipulated in Washington by hawk intellectuals who tried to fine-tune reality like an advertising agency, constantly inventing new jargon..."

"I think the danger is not that authority will collapse, but that finally in order to preserve itself, authority will become very repressive."

Kubrick disputes Francois Truffaut's assertion that you can't make an antiwar film if you show bombs going off because, Truffaut maintained, film always romanticizes everything it shows.

"That's clever because you can't fault it, but I'm not sure what it means", Kubrick said, "There are obviously elements in a war film that involve visual spectacle, courage, loyalty, affection, self-sacrifice and adventure, and these things tend to complicate any anti-war message. War memoirs show us that many of the men who aren't destroyed by the horror and stresses of combat, at least in retrospect, view their participation in the war as the greatest moment of their lives. Didn't Gen. Robert E. Lee say, "It is fortunate that war is so terrible or we should grow very fond of it?"

There are more interesting quotes that sound as though he could have said them yesterday. I will send them later.