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Chester Elijah Branch
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Holy Subtext: Meta-Narrative Trends in Cinema
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published
2009
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3 editions
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Parables Today: A Christian's Guide to Transmedia Screenwriting
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2013
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“To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message.”
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“people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.”
― Holy Subtext: Meta-Narrative Trends in Cinema
― Holy Subtext: Meta-Narrative Trends in Cinema
“Many groups use the media and successfully manipulate what Theodor Adorno calls our psychological frailty. This psychological frailty correlates to anxiety. It also precedes and foments fascism, sexism, and racism.
Because of our sense of free will, day-to-day anxiety can creep in as a form of guilt or the desire to belong / be loved.
It is this frailty that is manipulated which may later be expressed in fascism, nationalism, sexism, racism.
It's based on superego storytelling. But what's going on concurrent with all this is a shift from storytelling to storymaking.
There's an entire subgroup, mostly the younger generations, that have been participating in gaming and social media in a way that will bring about a new synergy. This is Hegel's dialect approach to society.
Jane McGonigal talks about this in her book Reality is Broken, Cathy Davis talks about this in her book Now You See It, Clay Shirky talks about this in his books Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody. Tapscott talks about this in his book Wikinomics.”
― Lecture Notes
Because of our sense of free will, day-to-day anxiety can creep in as a form of guilt or the desire to belong / be loved.
It is this frailty that is manipulated which may later be expressed in fascism, nationalism, sexism, racism.
It's based on superego storytelling. But what's going on concurrent with all this is a shift from storytelling to storymaking.
There's an entire subgroup, mostly the younger generations, that have been participating in gaming and social media in a way that will bring about a new synergy. This is Hegel's dialect approach to society.
Jane McGonigal talks about this in her book Reality is Broken, Cathy Davis talks about this in her book Now You See It, Clay Shirky talks about this in his books Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody. Tapscott talks about this in his book Wikinomics.”
― Lecture Notes
“people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative.”
― Holy Subtext: Meta-Narrative Trends in Cinema
― Holy Subtext: Meta-Narrative Trends in Cinema
“Many groups use the media and successfully manipulate what Theodor Adorno calls our psychological frailty. This psychological frailty correlates to anxiety. It also precedes and foments fascism, sexism, and racism.
Because of our sense of free will, day-to-day anxiety can creep in as a form of guilt or the desire to belong / be loved.
It is this frailty that is manipulated which may later be expressed in fascism, nationalism, sexism, racism.
It's based on superego storytelling. But what's going on concurrent with all this is a shift from storytelling to storymaking.
There's an entire subgroup, mostly the younger generations, that have been participating in gaming and social media in a way that will bring about a new synergy. This is Hegel's dialect approach to society.
Jane McGonigal talks about this in her book Reality is Broken, Cathy Davis talks about this in her book Now You See It, Clay Shirky talks about this in his books Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody. Tapscott talks about this in his book Wikinomics.”
― Lecture Notes
Because of our sense of free will, day-to-day anxiety can creep in as a form of guilt or the desire to belong / be loved.
It is this frailty that is manipulated which may later be expressed in fascism, nationalism, sexism, racism.
It's based on superego storytelling. But what's going on concurrent with all this is a shift from storytelling to storymaking.
There's an entire subgroup, mostly the younger generations, that have been participating in gaming and social media in a way that will bring about a new synergy. This is Hegel's dialect approach to society.
Jane McGonigal talks about this in her book Reality is Broken, Cathy Davis talks about this in her book Now You See It, Clay Shirky talks about this in his books Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody. Tapscott talks about this in his book Wikinomics.”
― Lecture Notes
“Nietzsche said we will never rid ourselves of God because we have too much faith in grammar/language.
Lacan said because of the religious tenets of language, religion will triumph.
Chomsky, master linguist, says 'there are no skeptics. You can discuss it in a philosophy seminar but no human being can - in fact - be a skeptic.'
These musings shed light on Soren K's leap to faith idea. This is more nuanced than the circular leap of faith argument he's been wrongly accused of...
Soren is saying that, as we use the logic of language to express existence and purpose, we will always leap TO faith in a superior, all encompassing, loving force that guides our lives.
This faith does not negate our reason. It simply implies that the reasoning of this superior force is superior to our own. Edwin Abbott crystalizes this in Flatland.”
― Lecture Notes
Lacan said because of the religious tenets of language, religion will triumph.
Chomsky, master linguist, says 'there are no skeptics. You can discuss it in a philosophy seminar but no human being can - in fact - be a skeptic.'
These musings shed light on Soren K's leap to faith idea. This is more nuanced than the circular leap of faith argument he's been wrongly accused of...
Soren is saying that, as we use the logic of language to express existence and purpose, we will always leap TO faith in a superior, all encompassing, loving force that guides our lives.
This faith does not negate our reason. It simply implies that the reasoning of this superior force is superior to our own. Edwin Abbott crystalizes this in Flatland.”
― Lecture Notes
“The continental philosopher comes to a philosophical conversation looking to have a communal experience where both sides learn from each other. Their perspective is often that we may be on different paragraphs but we are all on the same page.
They’ll often speak in stories as an attempt to create a world where everyone listening works together to create agreed upon language/inside jokes/slang.
By contrast, the analytic philosopher often comes to a philosophical conversation looking to win an argument. They often have a set of patterns, labels and pre-packaged arguments. To them, clever double speak and long drawn out narratives are not profound. They’ll often label it halfway through as just a bunch of made up gibberish that leaves things even more confusing than before.
It is as if the analytic philosopher says to the continental philosopher ‘you are speaking gibberish’ and the continental philosopher responds with ‘exactly.”
― Lecture Notes
They’ll often speak in stories as an attempt to create a world where everyone listening works together to create agreed upon language/inside jokes/slang.
By contrast, the analytic philosopher often comes to a philosophical conversation looking to win an argument. They often have a set of patterns, labels and pre-packaged arguments. To them, clever double speak and long drawn out narratives are not profound. They’ll often label it halfway through as just a bunch of made up gibberish that leaves things even more confusing than before.
It is as if the analytic philosopher says to the continental philosopher ‘you are speaking gibberish’ and the continental philosopher responds with ‘exactly.”
― Lecture Notes
“The meritocratic spectrum of self-determinist, self-help, books are as follows: on one end there’s the ___ steps towards a path to true bliss. On the other end of the spectrum there’s the ___ steps to cope with not reaching a path of true bliss.”
― Lecture Notes
― Lecture Notes
