I just watched this documentary on awareness. Lovely to see how many types of different people were interviewed on the question. It’s really refreshing. I needed to giggle at the guitarist though… yeap… that about sums up the metalhead. Response was never anger, nor adjustment, and as young as that they’ll be like: “WTF? Hey what you do is your thing bro, just don’t but into mine if we’re not resonating”. Sharp contrast with the dating agency woman, for instance.
But here’s the thing, stereotypical as it is being halfway through this doc: I wonder who the target audience is… Sometimes the topic or narrator; either of these two; needs to declare ‘they are now talking to 10 year olds’.
And then this woman came on and told about her friend whose son died and I went: “So you’re telling me grief is short-lived and suffering is forever”. Wait? Was this supposed to be a motivational film? Thirty nine minutes in I remember my Psych ed, and think: “gee they taught me sodium amytal applied to the left hemisphere for surgery immediately will make most people cry” (leftist, for a change). All hail the center where everyone should dance, imho (oh yes Rogers I hear ya). God help the person that actually is crazy enough to do that. lol.
Where this doc sort of ‘went off-road driving’ is positivism. A philosophy I’m not subrscribing to. “Think happy thoughts, good things will happen” or, in this case ‘think nothing, good things will happen’. I never thought for once growing up that it will, those trying are actually nailing their own coffin: *MUST MUST*. Sure way to see the ground up close.The other road to fail is to be successful at thinking *nothing*. I’ve personally never met anyone that was succesful at it, but once you do, you’re probably dead xD. The only thing you can do is to blame someone else or to blame yourself. That’s always internal, regardless of the external world, fact and infallible; provided reviewed with enough scrutiny – which is in effect interpreted through my eyes the essence of this documentary: the wish for death. (here’s input for my essay;).I believe knowledge is possible. Thought is not in the way of awareness, and what you should be doing a documentary on is authenticity and courage. Through these two words you experience ‘awareness’. “Hints” were already dropped through the entire documentary, but get to the essence and you’ll come to this.
Unfortunately the doc also uses ‘overused’ familiar visual illusions, etc. etc. So I was very bored with those. Still, really liked it. Good effort went into it, lots of viewpoints.
