lost
Hypocrite I am.
For all my advocacy against television, I cannot help watching Lost, though on the computer, it is after all, television.
Charlie, the rockstar of the island, has a tattoo on his shoulder that reads Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, which is apparently, at least according to IMDB, real, and also, a line from Strawberry Fields Forever, of course, long before my time.
I only mention this as a segue into the idea of living, what constitutes this elusive thing we seem to do everyday, and the metaphor of the island, all it contains, what that represents, the interplay of the characters, their placement and purpose.
We are all stranded on the island, attempting to unearth a massive and mysterious enclosure which we believe holds the truth to the mysteries of our place, reason, the universe, while at the same time struggling to survive, striving to make peace with all those around us, no matter how diverse, in the name of further self-sustainment.
The show is, as life, what I view as the fundamental paradox of humanity, our function as social anti-social creatures, self-interested and self-sacrificing in the same instant.
So the question is, how is this living, and which path of our inevitably divided interests leads to the true nature of man.
I prefer to believe the divide follows a soft line towards sociality and self-sacrifice, and true, this could be simply so I am able to sleep at night.
As for living, the island to me seems more of true living than the real world, since the advantages fall outside of the human domain, and though invisible, terrifying things exist, they bring forth the best qualities of human nature.
When most of the material world is laid to rest, maybe that is when the actions which constitute living awaken and evolve, and the reality of the infinite universe presents itself.
For all my advocacy against television, I cannot help watching Lost, though on the computer, it is after all, television.
Charlie, the rockstar of the island, has a tattoo on his shoulder that reads Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed, which is apparently, at least according to IMDB, real, and also, a line from Strawberry Fields Forever, of course, long before my time.
I only mention this as a segue into the idea of living, what constitutes this elusive thing we seem to do everyday, and the metaphor of the island, all it contains, what that represents, the interplay of the characters, their placement and purpose.
We are all stranded on the island, attempting to unearth a massive and mysterious enclosure which we believe holds the truth to the mysteries of our place, reason, the universe, while at the same time struggling to survive, striving to make peace with all those around us, no matter how diverse, in the name of further self-sustainment.
The show is, as life, what I view as the fundamental paradox of humanity, our function as social anti-social creatures, self-interested and self-sacrificing in the same instant.
So the question is, how is this living, and which path of our inevitably divided interests leads to the true nature of man.
I prefer to believe the divide follows a soft line towards sociality and self-sacrifice, and true, this could be simply so I am able to sleep at night.
As for living, the island to me seems more of true living than the real world, since the advantages fall outside of the human domain, and though invisible, terrifying things exist, they bring forth the best qualities of human nature.
When most of the material world is laid to rest, maybe that is when the actions which constitute living awaken and evolve, and the reality of the infinite universe presents itself.