What Can We Learn About Energy Management From The Ghostbusters?

I thought about this question last week when I was feeling a little full of negative energy.

Maybe it's due to the fact that the 30th Anniversary Ghostbusters Bluray set is coming out next month, but I got to thinking about how Ghostbusters II is a good metaphor for the concept of Energy Management.

In the movie, the collective negative energy from New York City manifests itself in the form of a river of pink slime flowing underground.

While investigating it, Egon, Ray, and Winston fall in the river and when they emerge, they are incredibly violent towards each other until they realize that the slime is causing them to act that way and they strip down to their underwear.

Just as in the movie, if you are full of/surrounded by (or in their case, literally covered in) negative energy, you're going to have a bad attitude which can definitely affect your actions. Similarly, being full of/surrounded by positive energy allows you to have a great attitude.

This is somewhat hinted at in the toaster scene, where the slime dances to (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher and Winston points out that if they were to market it to the public, the toaster would go berserk the first time someone gets mad around it.

Towards the end of the movie, the slime covers the art museum where the main villain (the spirit of a European Warlord trapped in a painting... I know, not as cool as Gozer the Gozerian). The Ghostbusters arrive and what do they do? 

They get their blasters out and try to gain access to the building by force. When this fails, the citizens of New York (wait... why are the people of New York ALWAYS at the site of a demon from another realm trying to take over the city?) get angry and the slime gets even stronger.

They decide that they need a symbol to rally the people behind, so why not the Statue of Liberty? Using positively charged slime, they walk Lady Liberty over to the art museum and crash through the skylight. 

Using a combination of their positive slime and their blasters (and the New Yorkers also singing Auld Lang Syne), they defeat Vigo the Carpathian (aka Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf) and the slime dries up and flakes off of the museum.

Just like in the movie, the only way you can overcome negative energy is by increasing your own positive energy.

I'd like to know your thoughts in the comments below.