Cinema's Secret Formulas: Why We Deliberately Don't Offer True Choice

AKA "The Consumer's Trap" (#6 in The Series)

And we thought the shadows on the cave’s wall were truth… (Photo by Mark Pellington)

When you wonder why we don’t have more masterpieces, more works of life-altering wisdom or beauty, many of believe it is just because of the scarcity of true genius. I think otherwise.

We are stuck in a system and the system is stuck in us. And that system trains us as co…