Thu Jun 18, 2020 09:35 PM
The recent season premiere of the Showtime series Billions begins with two hedge fund guys doing ayahuasca with a shaman in the middle of nowhere. We see them run out of the tent to purge, then look at the sky and take in the majesty of Planet Earth and the Universe it spins through. These guys who normally behave like the human offspring of a Hammerhead Shark and a Bloomberg Terminal have grown scraggly beards. They’re openly weeping and talking about the “meaning” of things like life.
Five minutes of screen time later, they’re clean shaven and back in New York, doing insider trading and plotting to destroy people simply for being more popular than they are.
For a glimmer, it looked like these two aggressive, egomaniacal characters were on the brink of personal growth. Whatever experience they had in the mountains with the shaman had altered their perspective on things. It looked like they were ready to turn over a new leaf.
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