April 10, 2012

UnGroup Theory - 1

Bruce Willis plays a meat Popsicle in the movie 5th Element. The adventure in this ridiculous movie pulls me in because Corbin Dallas is so real. He lives on the edge and when those edges fray, he ends up in adventure with every step.

Movies are hollywood's wet dreams of what we are all supposed to have - promises that are never kept in real life. We get to live vicariously within the Corbin Dallas' and laugh at our two hour distraction.

If we couldn't watch the video - could you self entertain yourself without the need for artificial input? Can you turn off the box, can i turn off this blog, can we live in the moment of this moment, or would we invent Corbin Dallas in some other form to keep us entertained?

There is a lot more here to do than we realize, but the earning a living gets in our way. Strip the hands off the clock and leave time stuck in the current instant, where only you have the ability to move around and about. What would you do?

What if we really need to reinvent the wheel? Or the lever? How many people really understand the concept of gear ratio? Do you hear the harmonic sing when you get something right?

The metrix say we are doing better, and we are doing well, while the metrics say that everything is over and doom meets gloom. We do have a choice, you know. Hollywood has taken to putting two endings into the movie package - take your choice.

Or are we doing this chinese menu style - choose one ending from column A and another from column B - plus you get an egg roll and won ton soup. Oy - what a deal!

We can delude ourselves into any belief and that is OK. Allow yourself to be and allow others to be what they feel to be. We are the change we wish to be. Please allow me my absurdity - do not force me to accept your whirled without my caveats.

Peace spreads through love. I miss London, but now Biter has me - the feline poem in the previous post brings back memories of a good familiar friend. Namaste' RDLT

1 comment:

Richard Raznikov said...

Could be that film, as with other creations, is an attempt to externalize ourselves, read ourselves as 'real' in our environment. McLuhan would say, hell, did say, that these are all extensions of ourselves. Film may be the desire to make sense of ourselves and who, and what, we are.