The big short

Big, Medium and Small

At the end of The Big Short, Ryan Gosling blah blah blahs, and the credits roll, where we see a written summary of the main characters' since coming out rich-as-fuck from the bank collapse and market crash.

We learn one-eyed Christian Bale lost his love of making money because that shit comes too easy for him. It's like taking candy from a baby. Anyways, now he's only interested in one thing, buying, trading and selling water. 

This had me thinking, so what's the big hoax going to be about water in ten years. I drive to LA a couple times a year, and the I-5 is decorated with many billboards advocating farmers' rights, begging for water, and pointing out the ridiculous levels of residential water.
In my mind, the drought has become a media driven entity, where I don't see much ground level difference. Last summer on my street, for example, there were houses with brown lawns, and houses with green lawns. It was pretty clear who was watering their lawn with disregard to the drought crisis.  If, in fact, we were coming to a point where California dries up, then why wouldn't there be a mandatory no-lawn-water law? It seems like the most pointless waste of water if in dire straights.

I told my bother my drought-hoax theory, "Matt, I think that the drought is perhaps an excuse for the exchange of water rights. Farmers are forced to sell them to LA, and then their farm land will be sold off for cheap. This will lead way to a fuck ton of wide open spaces in central California to be developed, and the billions pour into the pockets of developers as these new cities are created to accommodate California's population."
Matt said, "California's the 8th largest economy in the world, and their main resource is agriculture, so why would they push out industrialized farming."

"I have been wondering that too. What would fill the void?"
Maybe the goal is to push industrialized farming South or East, even possibly to Mexico and Central America, although, relying on another country for our food source seems like a bad idea. Perhaps, after realizing that sending US work overseas left the population undignified and hapless,  factory work will come back to the US, and these California cities will be the centralized site of work.

Then I went on to explain the lack of concern regarding residential lawn-watering, and he said, "No, dude, I heard a story on NPR, about people in the Oakland Hills being fined for watering."
"NPR! NPR! Matt, you can't trust NPR! Of course, they will be a main source of propaganda."
He called me Glen Beck.

The big short was a good film, sad really, capturing the helplessness and carelessness of people. But it had to add the paprika, as we say in the potato salad business. They sprinkled on some color simply for show. The gratuitous stripper scene was, well, really the cheapest trick ever at getting tits on screen.

It wasn't even as if Steve Carell's character needed to be butched up, he never came across as gay, so why the reaffirming of his manliness. His side-kick was pretty smoking hot, all angry and shit while tapping a baseball bat in his hand. So perhaps the tits in Carrel's face was to demonstrate Carell wasn't under the spell of his hot-agro sidekick.

I don't know. I'll just add that to the list of things to think about. That can go on the long list, and California's new landscape goes on the short list.