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Gotta love netflix. I just rented Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Man, as bad as that movie is, I love it. The last time I saw it was... I think back in 1999 shortly before my first burn. It sure colored my first experience. I see black rock city as bartertown... and master/blaster as the BOrg. I guess that makes Tina Turner (Auntie)= Larry. I definitely got some of my thunderdome battle flashbacks when I watched the thunderdome fight. That is totally the high point of the movie. I guess the misguided kids looking for their utopia would be us... waiting for a leader to show us the way.
I love Max. He's the quintessential Western hero. He walks the wasteland, he is wizened in the ways of the desert. He knows how to make his way in the hostile world. But there is a sadness about him. He lost his wife and baby to the freaks of his world. He lost everyone. He is damaged goods. It's a blatant reference to the Man With No Name (the western character you think of when you see Clint Eastwood). That's why when he walks into any settlement, the people immediately look to him for help.
I think about heroes a lot.
We look outside ourselves for leaders. They are supposed to come into our lives and show us the way. But, we end up waiting and waiting, then wondering what the fuck happened to our world. The leaders we have been left with are right idiots with no courage and no word and seemingly insurmountable power. But, we trust them because that's what the movies tell us to do. What other choice do we have?
Unless, of course, we want to be that hero.
I guess that's one of the things that I love about my community now as opposed to the community I had 7 years ago when I last watched Thunderdome. My community is a community of heroes and leaders. You guys move and make and create. You make your path and you trust your own integrity.
Let's find our own way through the desert.
I love Max. He's the quintessential Western hero. He walks the wasteland, he is wizened in the ways of the desert. He knows how to make his way in the hostile world. But there is a sadness about him. He lost his wife and baby to the freaks of his world. He lost everyone. He is damaged goods. It's a blatant reference to the Man With No Name (the western character you think of when you see Clint Eastwood). That's why when he walks into any settlement, the people immediately look to him for help.
I think about heroes a lot.
We look outside ourselves for leaders. They are supposed to come into our lives and show us the way. But, we end up waiting and waiting, then wondering what the fuck happened to our world. The leaders we have been left with are right idiots with no courage and no word and seemingly insurmountable power. But, we trust them because that's what the movies tell us to do. What other choice do we have?
Unless, of course, we want to be that hero.
I guess that's one of the things that I love about my community now as opposed to the community I had 7 years ago when I last watched Thunderdome. My community is a community of heroes and leaders. You guys move and make and create. You make your path and you trust your own integrity.
Let's find our own way through the desert.