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Sick in bed with my Laptop

The beauty of wireless computing in the home. I have had my hot bath, vitamin C, my hot tea, my hot chicken broth, and I still feel like crapola. So, I am in bed trying to get better with my laptop and really bad Sat night television.

This includes watching "2001: A Space Odyssey". It is a hard movie to watch really, and apparently a really subjective experience. "Dave...My mind is going...I can feel it..."

Quote from Stanely Kubrick

"I tried to create a visual experience, one that bypasses verbalized pigeonholing and directly penetrates the subconscious with an emotional and philosophical content....I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as music does...You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film...." -Stanley Kubrick, 1968"

I don't know if it is the cold medicine, but it's not penetrating my subconscious right now.

Here is an interesting reflection of it (please insert 'sic' after all the sexist language).

"In the transitional sequence from bone to spaceship to pen, one is forced to acknowledge the importance that Stanley Kubrick places on the relationship between evolution and the creating of tools. The tools created by man are splintered into two different types, tools of destruction and tools of preservation. In the beginning tools were used solely as a means of destruction. The first stage of human evolution began when animals learned how to cooperate within a group structure or extended family. These group structures began to compete with one another for resources. The competition led to adaptation, survival of the fittest. Survival of the fittest led the development of tools, tools of death, power and control. It is a combination of imagination and a lust for power and sex that spurred pre-man into the men we are now. The traits of the strongest group structure/extended family were passed on from generation to generation strengthening with each new birth. These group structures overpowered all other existing group structures pushing them into extinction. Tools created by a more evolved society will be built as a means to lengthen our lives and take us beyond ourselves, into a world exploration, hence self discovery. Tools may even be created that let man escape death. Man is the universe looking at itself in wonder. The tools of exploration can only lead man so far. What lay’s beyond is the unknowable, i.e. is there a god, what is on the other side of the universe, assuming the universe has a boundary, what is our purpose, etc. The metaphor of man staring at the black monolith represents just that. In 2001 man is separated by technology and becoming emotionally dead."

posted by Netwoman @ 1:49 AM