Sunday, 8 November 2015

Man Up


Summary: Caucasians making poor eye-contact.

Although hopelessly contrived and superficial, this is an excellent example of why Whites have the highest divorce rates: They conflate the Personal with the Political.

Here, the characters relate to each other only as members of each other’s gender - not as individuals. This induces the fear of not being accepted by the entire gender group by which they judge each other, rather than simply being accepted as an individual by another individual. By taking Politics to bed, in this way, Whites ensure - right from the start - the failure of the Personal relationships they ostensibly seek.

Despite the lack of insight into the moral and political predicament established by the screenplay, Lake BELL & Simon PEGG complement each other well; being engaging enough to allow us to overlook the essential shallowness of the entire enterprise and the superficiality of their characters - as written.

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Science:



No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.



Jacob Bronowski… (1908 - 74), British scientist, author. Encounter (London, July 1971).


Sleep of Reason:



The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.



Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes… (1746-1828), Spanish painter. Caption to Caprichos, number 43, a series of eighty etchings completed in 1798, satirical and grotesque in form.


Humans & Aliens:



I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.



Terence… (circa 190-159 BC), Roman dramatist. Chremes, in The Self-Tormentor [Heauton Timorumenos], act 1, scene 1.


Führerprinzip:



One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves… There is no organ of conciliation or mediation interposed between the leader and the people, nothing in fact but the apparatus - in other words, the party - which is the emanation of the leader and the tool of his will to oppress. In this way the first and sole principle of this degraded form of mysticism is born, the Führerprinzip, which restores idolatry and a debased deity to the world of nihilism.