This Is One of the Greatest Blog Posts I've Ever Read

How Karate Kid ruined the modern world.  Or, more broadly, training-sequences in movies.

Accomplishing worthwhile things isn't just a little harder than people think; it's 10 or 20 times harder. Like losing weight. You make yourself miserable for six months and find yourself down a whopping four pounds. Let yourself go at a single all-you-can-eat buffet and you've gained it all back.

and this

It applies to everything. America is full of frustrated, broken, baffled people because so many of us think, "If I work this hard, this many hours a week, I should have (a great job, a nice house, a nice car, etc). I don't have that thing, therefore something has corrupted the system and kept me from getting what I deserve, and that something must be (the government, illegal immigrants, my wife, my boss, my bad luck, etc)."

The whole thing is worth reading.

Also - someone needs to do a piece on how method acting has lead to facebook and twitter and all this internet noise.  Seriously, this idea of looking inward to one's internal emotional experience in search of value for the external world is thanks largely to the method.  And also, wanting desperately to be seen.