The subject has become a lot less joyful, hasn't it? I'd love to laugh about it all again but my perspective has shifted with the time and I think the story needs to be framed as a tragedy now. My friend Benjamin and I spoke about this recently with Gio Pennacchietti if you're interested - https://youtu.be/VcfNALfrfsA?si=l3Vg7Yg9mVmkO96K
I was thinking the other day the best fictional films are beautiful arenas for testing memes. Especially moral memes. With documentaries, the same thing, but instead of artificially constructing characters to maximize testability (through conflict), we find them in the real world.
Religious people will kill me for this but I think stories are moral compression technology. They can pack meaning into tight constructions that move quickly among humans with higher fidelity than cold dead information and change behaviours at scale. In some sense, it's silly reduce the magic of it all in this way but the observable process plays into the World III War perspective I'm developing.
I might be called catholic. The more I learn and experience, the more I see it is all story. Everything is an analogy. Our mind, soul, (spirit?) understands story better than anything else.
Mary has built a distinct worldview based on so many 'off the beaten track' thinkers. I love meeting people like this because they become a conduit for new explorations. Confucianism is something I'm yet to tackle but I will at some point. Thanks for the suggestion.
I'd love to see an epilogue to The Reformers. Please also include any more clips of the trio describing their "research." I could use a laugh.
The subject has become a lot less joyful, hasn't it? I'd love to laugh about it all again but my perspective has shifted with the time and I think the story needs to be framed as a tragedy now. My friend Benjamin and I spoke about this recently with Gio Pennacchietti if you're interested - https://youtu.be/VcfNALfrfsA?si=l3Vg7Yg9mVmkO96K
Thanks! I will check it out.
I was thinking the other day the best fictional films are beautiful arenas for testing memes. Especially moral memes. With documentaries, the same thing, but instead of artificially constructing characters to maximize testability (through conflict), we find them in the real world.
Religious people will kill me for this but I think stories are moral compression technology. They can pack meaning into tight constructions that move quickly among humans with higher fidelity than cold dead information and change behaviours at scale. In some sense, it's silly reduce the magic of it all in this way but the observable process plays into the World III War perspective I'm developing.
I might be called catholic. The more I learn and experience, the more I see it is all story. Everything is an analogy. Our mind, soul, (spirit?) understands story better than anything else.
I think watching Carol Black's Schooling The World was a holy shift moment for me.
I haven't seen it yet, thanks for the suggestion. I'll check it out.
Mary has built a distinct worldview based on so many 'off the beaten track' thinkers. I love meeting people like this because they become a conduit for new explorations. Confucianism is something I'm yet to tackle but I will at some point. Thanks for the suggestion.