Loved this essay's depth -- the analysis of the visual components here were especially great, it's cool to think about the visual landscape of Gilligan's anti-AI, pro-humanity and pro-friction themes.
Watching Pluribus has me think a lot about Brave New World by Huxley, especially this quote.
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.""
I would NOT want to watch that show...and yet, I suspect I may wish some OTHERS to view it simply because it might help them understand me.
Note my moniker; there is a reason for it, and it has everything to do with the zeitgeist of the past decade; "for the love of god" has entered my personal expletive-vocabulary strictly and solely because I've never felt more like Fortunato.
It used to be you didn't HAVE to fit in; you could make your own existence. Now, it's like there's been a kind of Procrustean, (Medieval???) insistence that THE UNKNOWN DOES NOT AND CANNOT EXIST - that existence is finite, everything that exists has already been cataloged, and if you say you're something new, oh you must be mistaken, go grab a pre-approved soul off the rack (See also: Gender-pride flags).
I had been mulling over the whole notion of integrity, and my mind turned to Patrick Henry. In his speech (Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech by Patrick Henry to the Second Virginia Revolutionary Convention meeting at St. John’s Church, Richmond, on March 23, 1775) he asked, essentially, whether they would allow fear to drive their hopes to the worst of ends. Life and liberty, fecund, uncertain, gloriously messy. Integrity our bellwether. May it ever be so. Thank you for writing this essay.
Loved this essay's depth -- the analysis of the visual components here were especially great, it's cool to think about the visual landscape of Gilligan's anti-AI, pro-humanity and pro-friction themes.
Watching Pluribus has me think a lot about Brave New World by Huxley, especially this quote.
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.""
ooh, i haven't read Brave New World in YEARS, good reminder to go find it.
God, I felt violated even reading that!
I would NOT want to watch that show...and yet, I suspect I may wish some OTHERS to view it simply because it might help them understand me.
Note my moniker; there is a reason for it, and it has everything to do with the zeitgeist of the past decade; "for the love of god" has entered my personal expletive-vocabulary strictly and solely because I've never felt more like Fortunato.
It used to be you didn't HAVE to fit in; you could make your own existence. Now, it's like there's been a kind of Procrustean, (Medieval???) insistence that THE UNKNOWN DOES NOT AND CANNOT EXIST - that existence is finite, everything that exists has already been cataloged, and if you say you're something new, oh you must be mistaken, go grab a pre-approved soul off the rack (See also: Gender-pride flags).
It's Constantine/Nicea 2.0...or put another way:
"To be, or not to be; that is the question."
I had been mulling over the whole notion of integrity, and my mind turned to Patrick Henry. In his speech (Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Speech by Patrick Henry to the Second Virginia Revolutionary Convention meeting at St. John’s Church, Richmond, on March 23, 1775) he asked, essentially, whether they would allow fear to drive their hopes to the worst of ends. Life and liberty, fecund, uncertain, gloriously messy. Integrity our bellwether. May it ever be so. Thank you for writing this essay.
Wow. If only other critics could see things as clearly, and prophetically. as you do.
Thank you for this essay. This is a show that is so much deeper than I even have given it.
I also appreciate you calling out Carol's anti-hero tendency. I need to watch it all again. And maybe Breaking Bad.