[lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions

  • From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:02:27 -0400

**Absence of Malice provides a basis to discuss ethics and responsibility.

TC,

/Steve Cameron, NJ

Andy Amago wrote:

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Oct 18, 2004 1:57 AM
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Decisions, decisions
> 
> 
> Le 17 oct. 04, =E0 23:36, Ursula Stange a =E9crit :
> 
> M.C. I'd suggest Waking Life, Matrix, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless=20=
> 
> mind, Inside John Malcovich, My Dinner with Andr=E9, Sliding Doors
> 
> 
> 
> A.A.  When I watched the Matrix, my philistine self saw a high tech 
> bang-bang-shoot-em-up-love-will-save-us action fillm.  In thinking back on 
> it, the images were ostensibly generated by computer and projected somehow 
> into people's minds.  Okay, I'll buy it, brain in a vat.  The original 
> Manchurian Candidate had a variation on the same theme.  Korean War POW's are 
> brainwashed with sophisticated techniques to believe they are somewhere else 
> and are in fact controlled by outside forces.  Frank Sinatra fights to save 
> the vets, as do the Matricians who fight against the evil computer.  My 
> problem is that I think both movies are more about the indomitable human 
> spirit than Cartesian what if-ness.  In both movies, the ol brain in the head 
> prevails.  I go by the maxim that if it's peddled as philosophy for mass 
> appeal, then the movie mostly likely stinks.  But then I'm a self-diagnosed 
> non-recovering philistine.
> 
> I did like John Malcovich, with the different layers of reality (if I recall) 
> and will put the others on my Netflix list.  
> 
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>><snip>
>>
>>Working on multiple choice at the moment. The question I wrote just=20
>>now:
>>
>>Plotinus declared that the purpose of life was
>>a. for the soul to reunite with =91the One=94
>>b. to find tranquility and mental ease
>>c. to get as much pleasure as possible
>>d. to forge a meaning of life for yourself
>>e. to follow the prime directive
> 
> 
> M.C. And the answer is........?
> 
> Michael Chase
> (goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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> France
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