20091216

i think (key word here, think) i'm going to write a memoir about growing up on disney movies. or maybe it can be a larger piece about growing up on movies and how the film creates expectations about reality with perhaps reflection on how/why the film is different than the book in this regard (if it is - which it seems to be, esp flowing from the written word/moving image, spoken word dichotomy - in this respect it seems to be a difference of imaginative possibilites on the observing, receiving end). if it turns into a grand reflection on the movie's influence, then the other dominant influence will surely be the romantic comedy. the key is detailing how these films help create my own methodology for social reality construction and thus directly influenced the way in which i attempt to construct meaning. because there is no getting around the fact that we create the meaning in this world, whether its consciously willed or not,well, that is certainly another story (one which may indeed be drawn out in the exposition here).

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"Seeing that before long I must confront humanity with the most difficult demand ever made of it, it seems indispensable to me to say who I am. Really, one should know it, for I have not left myself "without testimony." But the disproportion between the greatness of my task and the smallness of my contemporaries has found expression in the fact that one has neither heard nor even seen me. I live on my own credit; is it perhaps a mere prejudice that I live? ... I need only to speak with one of the "educated" who come to the Upper Engadine for the summer, and I am convinced that I do not live ... Under these circumstances I have a duty against which my habits, even more the pride of my instincts, revolt at bottom, namely, to say: Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else!" - Nietzsche, Ecce Homo