The Answer Key

Has anyone reading this ever seen a film called Why Man Creates? I saw it twice back in school (once in sixth grade, and I think the other time was in seventh), and I can't remember all of it. I believe the first segment was called "The Edifice," and represented the history of the world in a building. Another one had a high-bouncing ping-pong ball, which I think was a metaphor for an idea, or something like that. But the segment I remember the best, and one that comes to my mind quite often, was a really short one consisting entirely of a conversation between two animals (snails, I think). It went something like this:

Snail 1: Have you ever thought that radical ideas that threaten institutions later become institutions, which in turns reject radical ideas that threaten institutions?
Snail 2: No.
Snail 1: Oh. For a minute, I thought I had something there.

The reason why I thought of it was bec_87rb's reply to this post, where she mentions how Protestantism changed from a radical new form of Christianity to the religion favored by regressive conservatives.

lozenger8 recently asked me some interview questions, so I might as well go ahead and answer them.

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And while we're on the subject of answers, how about ( the answers to the guess-the-song game? )