Really fascinating video and I enjoyed the narration of worlds within a world and that keeps going. The idea of the pictures will take your soul away was also interesting. I know ill taking about this for days to come. The huge statue felt exhausting to me though I know people will love taking selfie with it in the capitalistic world we’re in. 😔
Yes I thought that idea of worlds within worlds within worlds on the internet was interesting although I'm wondering now whether I've ever experienced that. I'm not a gamer, which is where I imagine many people experience that concept. My experience is more like plodding down those huge boulevards that big corporations have flattened out for me.
I wasn't sure what he meant when he said pictures will take your soul away. What does it mean to you?
Prometheus on Alcatraz is so colonialist, white supremacist, it's astounding. May as well be a big white phallus. I grew up in San Francisco. Very familiar with the history of the city and the island Alcatraz. I remember when the AIM (American Indian Movement) took over the island. Their graffiti still on the building they occupied. My last time there, now that I've lived in Los Angeles many many years, was for the Ai Wei Wei exhibit at the prison. It was a very moving exhibition with a sensitivity to the prison and its history. San Francisco, as far as I'm concerned has lost much of what made it what it was, thanks to gentrification by the tech bros. This is just one more nail in the coffin of culture.
'May as well be a big white phallus' made me laugh. So true. I think your description of the effects of gentrification ring true for so many big cities now. London is the same.
I would have loved to have visited that Ai Wei Wei exhibit on Alcatraz. I wrote about it, but didn't get to experience it.
Thanks for the thought provoking post this week. I absolutely agree with you on the first issue - big, faceless corporations / machines with no moral understanding are maybe not the people we want to be relying on, however, the genie is out of the bag and probably won't want to go back because they are simply making too much money - and Elon Musk has just been given a salary that is out of all human proportion. I am convinced we have to return to what makes us human, and how we can be human WITH this world. Which leads me nicely to the next item - the huge statue: of course this is totally out of any human proportion, and probably a last stand of the "hero's narrative" which we've lived by for the last 100 or so years. Go out there, slay the dragon, become the best, be at the top of the pile. It's landed us in a terrible situation: the myth of more, depletion of the world's assets, killing the environment. As Sharon Blackie says, we need a new narrative to live by, and that would be the pre- heroic or post-heroic journey, the heroine's journey - were we live within our human proportion with the world - and with the other-than-humans, always in a sense of community and communication. We are part of the world soul and it is part of us. As we develop, so does the world soul. And out of proportion statues celebrating the hero's journey are about the last thing we need right now.
Really fascinating video and I enjoyed the narration of worlds within a world and that keeps going. The idea of the pictures will take your soul away was also interesting. I know ill taking about this for days to come. The huge statue felt exhausting to me though I know people will love taking selfie with it in the capitalistic world we’re in. 😔
Yes I thought that idea of worlds within worlds within worlds on the internet was interesting although I'm wondering now whether I've ever experienced that. I'm not a gamer, which is where I imagine many people experience that concept. My experience is more like plodding down those huge boulevards that big corporations have flattened out for me.
I wasn't sure what he meant when he said pictures will take your soul away. What does it mean to you?
Prometheus on Alcatraz is so colonialist, white supremacist, it's astounding. May as well be a big white phallus. I grew up in San Francisco. Very familiar with the history of the city and the island Alcatraz. I remember when the AIM (American Indian Movement) took over the island. Their graffiti still on the building they occupied. My last time there, now that I've lived in Los Angeles many many years, was for the Ai Wei Wei exhibit at the prison. It was a very moving exhibition with a sensitivity to the prison and its history. San Francisco, as far as I'm concerned has lost much of what made it what it was, thanks to gentrification by the tech bros. This is just one more nail in the coffin of culture.
'May as well be a big white phallus' made me laugh. So true. I think your description of the effects of gentrification ring true for so many big cities now. London is the same.
I would have loved to have visited that Ai Wei Wei exhibit on Alcatraz. I wrote about it, but didn't get to experience it.
Thanks for the thought provoking post this week. I absolutely agree with you on the first issue - big, faceless corporations / machines with no moral understanding are maybe not the people we want to be relying on, however, the genie is out of the bag and probably won't want to go back because they are simply making too much money - and Elon Musk has just been given a salary that is out of all human proportion. I am convinced we have to return to what makes us human, and how we can be human WITH this world. Which leads me nicely to the next item - the huge statue: of course this is totally out of any human proportion, and probably a last stand of the "hero's narrative" which we've lived by for the last 100 or so years. Go out there, slay the dragon, become the best, be at the top of the pile. It's landed us in a terrible situation: the myth of more, depletion of the world's assets, killing the environment. As Sharon Blackie says, we need a new narrative to live by, and that would be the pre- heroic or post-heroic journey, the heroine's journey - were we live within our human proportion with the world - and with the other-than-humans, always in a sense of community and communication. We are part of the world soul and it is part of us. As we develop, so does the world soul. And out of proportion statues celebrating the hero's journey are about the last thing we need right now.
A new narrative to live by. Yes! Perhaps Marina Abramovic should propose a huge projection of her film The Hero on the walls of Alcatraz instead of this statue: https://www.thegallerycompanion.com/p/marina-abramovic-on-a-white-horse