On movies and philsophy
The Abyss was on Sci-Fi today. I only caught parts of the last half of it, with Dad interrupting me going "hey, here's a a good part" or "I almost cried at this part" and "no, they're not blowing something up. They're making something *not* blow up" and unhelpful stuff like that.
The grand finale- the worldwide one, not the 'the everyman guy separated from his wife saves the world through his goodbye message to her' climax (and I hate sappy moments in the middle of action scenes, because they're such non sequitors, and idiotic ones at that. I am going to pause in the middle of cutting bomb wires to tell my wife I love her. Because a man would really do that.)- was this giant tidal wave coming out of the ocean to hit every coastline (because the creatures of the Abyss control water). People run screaming in circles, of course, because movie-people are stupid like that. (Godzilla!) And the Abyss creatures have made their threat clear- stop blowing each other up or we will flood the world with our tsunami waves that are taller than skyscrapers. And the water goes away. People start cheering, because they do that in stupid movies.
And then at the very end, the Abyss creatures raise their city out of the depths to rest on the water's surface. And this thing is huge. There's two oil tankers lashed together and next to it, they're like a kitten in the palm of Michael Jordan's hand. Huge!
First thing that went through my mind?
Wow, the world governments are going to ally together to blow it up (because they don't handle threats well), then go back to fighting amongst themselves.
And I wonder why they do that. Because I don't understand why people have to take everything unknown as a threat. We're the threat. We're immature, paranoid, small-minded creatures with a complete inability to think individually while in a crowd. We're destroying our own ability to live on this planet and care not one whit, because it's going to be future generations that are harmed by this. There's some poem that goes along the lines "They came for the Jews, and I said nothing, because I was not Jewish" and goes on with all different types and ends "And then they came for me, and there was no one to speak." And sad to say, that's what it is. We are creatures of indifference and selfishness. If it doesn't involve us, if it doesn't happen to us, it doesn't matter.
And I'm not saying that I'm not like this. I don't care about the starving children in Africa. I don't care about flood victims in China. Hell, I don't care about the homeless of New Orleans who are crying out for 100% government aid in help, because dammit, they knew that living on the coastline of the Gulf would have hurricanes. And if they didn't know, that's their fault, because hurricanes have been hitting these shores long before anyone moved here. And no, I don't feel guilty about feeling this way, because they felt the same damn way when hurricanes hit our area. "Hey, that's what they get for living in Florida." If I couldn't handle hurricanes, I'd pick another natural disaster to try and get used to and move where those are common, because natural disasters happen everywhere, and it's just a matter of finding one you can live with.
We're tiny social-oriented people who hate each other, and yet everyone thinks I'm the odd one for being forthcoming about my dual nature.
"Religion is a great source of comfort for a world torn apart by religion."
The grand finale- the worldwide one, not the 'the everyman guy separated from his wife saves the world through his goodbye message to her' climax (and I hate sappy moments in the middle of action scenes, because they're such non sequitors, and idiotic ones at that. I am going to pause in the middle of cutting bomb wires to tell my wife I love her. Because a man would really do that.)- was this giant tidal wave coming out of the ocean to hit every coastline (because the creatures of the Abyss control water). People run screaming in circles, of course, because movie-people are stupid like that. (Godzilla!) And the Abyss creatures have made their threat clear- stop blowing each other up or we will flood the world with our tsunami waves that are taller than skyscrapers. And the water goes away. People start cheering, because they do that in stupid movies.
And then at the very end, the Abyss creatures raise their city out of the depths to rest on the water's surface. And this thing is huge. There's two oil tankers lashed together and next to it, they're like a kitten in the palm of Michael Jordan's hand. Huge!
First thing that went through my mind?
Wow, the world governments are going to ally together to blow it up (because they don't handle threats well), then go back to fighting amongst themselves.
And I wonder why they do that. Because I don't understand why people have to take everything unknown as a threat. We're the threat. We're immature, paranoid, small-minded creatures with a complete inability to think individually while in a crowd. We're destroying our own ability to live on this planet and care not one whit, because it's going to be future generations that are harmed by this. There's some poem that goes along the lines "They came for the Jews, and I said nothing, because I was not Jewish" and goes on with all different types and ends "And then they came for me, and there was no one to speak." And sad to say, that's what it is. We are creatures of indifference and selfishness. If it doesn't involve us, if it doesn't happen to us, it doesn't matter.
And I'm not saying that I'm not like this. I don't care about the starving children in Africa. I don't care about flood victims in China. Hell, I don't care about the homeless of New Orleans who are crying out for 100% government aid in help, because dammit, they knew that living on the coastline of the Gulf would have hurricanes. And if they didn't know, that's their fault, because hurricanes have been hitting these shores long before anyone moved here. And no, I don't feel guilty about feeling this way, because they felt the same damn way when hurricanes hit our area. "Hey, that's what they get for living in Florida." If I couldn't handle hurricanes, I'd pick another natural disaster to try and get used to and move where those are common, because natural disasters happen everywhere, and it's just a matter of finding one you can live with.
We're tiny social-oriented people who hate each other, and yet everyone thinks I'm the odd one for being forthcoming about my dual nature.
"Religion is a great source of comfort for a world torn apart by religion."