Movie-time!

[janestarz]

I've been wanting to watch Memento for years, but I never could find the movie anywhere. It was recommended by Talescaper, with whom I no longer have contact. He said that the movie was going backward in time, piecing together the story-line

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[nathreee]

Ever heard of the Selfish Gene theory? It explains many of our human behaviours as instinctively good for our survival as a species; like selfish behaviour, the urge to eat more than me need to survive, liking people with whom we have things in common and disliking the ones who are different, and more things like this.

[janestarz]

I don't remember if you read ursulav or not (if not, you really, really should), but she once wrote about this:

"Kevin's theory is that parenting is one of those things where people doing it have to feel like they're doing it RIGHT, because nobody wants to feel like they're doing it WRONG. So if I'm RIGHT and you're doing it differently, you must be doing it WRONG, and I must defend my RIGHTness loudly and vigorously and occasionally irrationally, because A) children are involved, won't somebody think of the children, etc and B) probably a majority of parents, at various points, are secretly convinced that they have no idea what they're doing and some of us don't want to admit that, and thus are stridently RIGHT. (And of course, if you are WRONG, then you are an unfit parent, and if you don't recognize that you are WRONG, you must be told it, loudly, and if possible compared to Hitler.) Kevin may well be correct. This is one I don't intend to find out on my own."
From: Ursula's blog
Not quite what you said in your comment, but it reminded me