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Re: escapism (was re: JIN-ROH and LotR)
>From: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
>Reply-To: "Peter T. Chattaway" <petert at interchange_ubc.ca>
>CC: Over the Rhine List <Over-the-Rhine at actwin_com>
>Subject: Re: escapism (was re: JIN-ROH and LotR)
>Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:52:06 -0800 (PST)
>
>On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Don Smith wrote:
> > For example, in _The Matrix_ (appropriately enough), there's a brief
> > scene in which Mouse says "to deny our impulses is to deny that which
> > makes us human". Why is this in the film?
>
>I've always associated it with the idea, seen in other stories of a
>quasi-neo-Gnostic bent, that it is through spontaneous action that we can
>break out of our prefab existences -- Philip K. Dick gets into this in
>some of his writings, as do movies like _The Truman Show_ (where, if I'm
>not mistaken, Jim Carrey actually shouts, "I'm being SPONTANEOUS!").
>
>Of course, we might ask where these impulses *come* from ...
>
> > I remember a usenet post I read years ago, in which someone was arguing
> > that children should not be allowed to read books like the Narnia
> > series, because they might get the idea that faith was exciting, and
> > then when they grew up and found out how dull it is, they would leave
> > the church.
>
>[ LOL! ]
>
> > How sad, on so many levels.
>
>Well, true. But I couldn't help laughing. Absurdity does that to me.
>
>--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
> "I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
> Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
>
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