RE: Reloaded with plastic pea pellets; a rant for Jim

Daniel,
since it's been so long since my university philosophy classes, could you
please remind me which philosopher presented the notion that once we are
exposed to more intellectual pleasures, the bestial pleasures will never
suit us again? On this note, I say bravo to Eve, and then Adam, who chose
not to live for eternity as pigs. This makes Eve the first intellectual,
and the first philosopher.
tina

>Jim, the ancient choice remains; eternal life in the Garden OR the
>knowledge of Good and Evil and death. Of course, there is the lie, and
>we know that choice rests on good (true) information. Some choose the
>one intertwine with the lie and break through the supposed simulacra
>into nothingness where Will ceases to exist. You choose life and the
>rest shall be added unto you. We will then have the best data too if we
>choose wisely. Be faithful in the little things and you will be trusted
>with the great things. My daughter is not allowed to play with guns and
>cars...yet. Like that song says 'who do you trust?'. Some have said
>trust yourself and well we know where that goes, pssst the
>existentialist are familiar with that earth covered box, in their
>breaking through don't they stand with their friend angst and
>contemplate the nothingness they will someday succumb to? But He who
>made me has a claim, some will Simulacra their way into oblivion to deny
>that claim. Like the best Nobility, we must learn to kneel and bow
>first. Who is the greatest in the Kingdom? The servant. The Marxist
>laughs and dies in revolution. We all serve something, Whom do you
>serve?
>
>Jim did you notice that when Neo was fighting the Merovingian's henchmen
>he was cut (in his hand) and blood dripped to the floor? The
>Merovingian said 'see, he is only a man.' That is exactly what one
>would expect said from a Merovingian of an Anderson. Also, did you
>notice that in the closing scenes Neo exhibits Matrix mastering powers
>outside the Matrix apparently? Your essay spends some space speaking of
>councilor Hume's skepticism, those strolls in engineering, of course
>Commander Locke was only annoyed by him, Notice, all this talk of things
>and makers of things in the movie breaks down at one point, it is
>captured in the punch line of a favorite joke, 'Nietzsche, get your own
>dirt.'
>
>Jim and Diego, there are other movies. Sam Gamgee serves too, and lays
>the mighty low; take that Nietzsche.
>
>Diego, sweet James, there is an old story about the colonizing of New
>Mexico. When the Men of Arms stormed Acoma the Sky city on a Mesa with
>no roads to its top, they climbed an adjacent Mesa and laid a bridge
>across and took that High city. It was just a score and a half or so
>that fought the whole city. As the Spanish Men of Arms swept across
>their makeshift log bridge one at a time, they reportedly shouted
>!Santiago! and they were carried through, some fell but they won the
>day. Legend has it that when they shouted Santiago! an apparition of a
>fierce man upon a charger appeared as a cloud dressed in armor with arms
>of iron, and swept over the Mesa with those audacious Spaniards. This
>is all not that uncommon for a telling of a battle in those days, but
>the surprising part of it all was that it was those Acoma Pueblo Indians
>who were the witnesses to the apparition and they tell this story to
>this day. Maybe they just didn't want to admit defeat to the Spaniards
>but, Diego, they had no idea what a Diego was much less a Santa Diego.
>
>So can you account for your whereabouts at about that time?
>
>Daniel
>
>
>
>
>Hey...if you want to read a discussion of the meaning of "terrorism"
>within the film, you should probably read a piece I wrote about the
>first flick that's recently been updated to accomodate the sequel:
>
>http://artisanitorium.thehydden.com/nonfiction/film/matrix.htm
>
>Something else to keep in mind is that the W Brothers envisioned the
>film as a live action comic book. The "entertainment value" payoff for
>their audience is the violence -- for their projected audience of
>pre-teen to 20ish males. You're just too grown up for comics books,
>Diego :).
>
>There's a chase scene on a freeway that beats any other chase scene on
>film, in my opinion -- gah. At times I was even scared for the stunt
>drivers. There are quite a few gratuitous scenes, actually. I'd say
>less than an hour advances the plot, and the rest is just eye candy. If
>
>you don't like that form of eye candy, though, of course the film will
>seem like crap.
>
>You may want to check out Down with Love if for no other reason than the
>
>way it plays with and violates 60's film conventions.
>
>Jim
>
>Diego M. Dell'Era wrote:
>
> > It is released today where I live, but all the talk here is
> > discouraging.
> >
> > I rather enjoyed the first one, but you have to agree that
> > its philosophy and ideology were crappy. The freedom
> > fighters plant a bomb in a government building, and then
> > they crash an aircraft into another one, presumably in the
> > bussiness district, judging from the panoramic view. Free
> > your mind, my ass.
> >
> > I think its merits are a good narrative and foreshadowing,
> > plus some "ontological shock", but that's about it. They
> > tell me the second one doesn't even have that. Most critics
> > have Daniel's mixed feelings about it, I gather. And Jim,
> > sequels don't necessarily have to be languid and irresolute;
> > what about Godfather Part II?
> >
> > The last sci-fi film I really liked was *Gattaca*. Cheesy at
> > times, but nice. Has anyone seen anything more recent on
> > that line that you'd care to recommend?
> >
> > Saludos,
> > Diego D.
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