From: David Harding (davidharding@optusnet.com.au)
Date: Tue Nov 01 2005 - 07:53:05 GMT
All,
As I'd said in a previous post before I watched the movie, I had a theory about Nihilism
and Existentialism. Having not done any reading in these two areas, and after many
recommendations from people on this site, to test it I decided to just watch the movie
and see if the theory fit it. It fit. Nihilists and Existentialists are just two sides of the
same cultural relativist coin. In these days of relativism, if, by circumstance, you have a
positive outlook, well then your an Existentialist, if by circumstance you have a negative
outlook, well then your a Nihilist. And so that pretty much summed up 95% of the movie,
with philosophical ideas, ideas both good and bad thrown around, at times extremely
chaotically, all the while half accepted/half not accepted. As it goes that's what
happens when there is no real standard by which to judge anything; 'everythings relative
right?'.
The movies conclusion also ran along these lines but wasn't existential or nihilist, it was
SOM pragmatic. Albert, the movies main character concludes "interconnectedness",
"grows from the manure of human trouble", "no manure, no magic". This is a clear
indication that he's rejected both pesimistic and optimistic outlooks for something a little
more pragmatic, however the MOQ says that 'interconnectedness'(a synonym for static
quality) goes before 'human trouble' in the metaphysical relation of things, not the other
way around. Without a term with which to base these claims though, a term which is
both indivisible and infinitely divisible then "human" will continue to be mistakenly
placed before "interconnectedness", as this static quality is mistaken for a subjective
thought.
-David.
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