I was surprised to find that so few people had more thoughts on the "Flight" video that we viewed.
As I mentioned in class today, this video is purely chapter six in video form as opposed to prose.The bird is white, standing for purity and nature, and the artists uses deep red and black for the video, symbolizing pain, suffering, desolation, and all that "bad stuff."It shows the innocence of a man chasing the bird, imagining that he can fly and then longing to conquer the air, so he builds a flying contraption, and as the technology advances further, so does his and its capacity for evil and bad. Due to our flaws as Humans, we screw up something that has the potential for good, and instead use it to "enact the story" as Quinn puts it. However, I think that this video misses that good that is there, even amongst the evil. In WWII, when bombs were flying, some of those bombs were from good people who were trying to destroy evil. Although destruction ensues from both forces, one comes from good intentions. Isn't that worth something?
As a last point, I'd like you to think back and remember when Ishmael deems all humanity to be "flawed," thus causing us to always be screwing up this perfect paradise that we were supposedly meant to create.
Aren't other forms of life flawed as well? Surely Nature can't be perfect. I'll refrain from answering my own question as I so often do, and I'll let you, the reader answer this. You can draw your conclusion from scientific research, books you've read, the Ishmael school of thought, or simply from what you can see around you. You'll embark of a journey of your own as you ponder, or perhaps you will simply embark on a journey back to whatever you were doing before you read this. Either way, there is no way to escape the question. The answer is just outside the door.
(unedited.mind)
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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