Saturday, April 16, 2005
Desire is irrelevant
Today I saw T3, a good intent to complete an unconcluded story, one story that behind the self-referred-parody, it brings to our memory an eternal mith: The End of the World.
The Terminator (or Gobernator these days), says to John Connor, at the climax of this movie a notable sentence: "I'm a Machine, desire is irrelevant". John, human, was not better than his Cyber friend, John had a fate to accomplish... John had a destiny and he felt a prisioner of it... I don't believe in fate but in the responsability that comes with the knowledge about something; J. Connor knew, since the moment he was borned, what was going to come to his life.
As we are in the field of the "Eschatological films", I remember Morpheus, in Matrix, saying to Neo: "The Oracle told you just what you needed to hear"... What we know- in other words- what we think we know, creates our reality and determines our possible life paths. My question today is: What the hack do we know about anything?, moreover, What do you know about your own life... do you know it by heart? a simplier question: Who are you? and after you can define it, Who told you that about yourself? Did you discovered it on your own?. getting to the point of this issue: What do you want?, I cannot still know if my answer to that question comes from my self knowledge or from some parental imago... Super Ego, some one should say. Jung once said: "the aparent individual conflict of the pacient reveals an universal conflict of its environment and era. The neurosis is then, just an individual intent, failed by the way, to resolve an universal problem"
Clearly is not well defined yet who or what is what determines the universal problems today, the power is difused among the market's "invisible hand", such liberalism ate the free individual and today, our individual conflicts (as well as our desires) are mediated by that difused power wich feeds itself by our unsatisfied human needs.
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The Terminator (or Gobernator these days), says to John Connor, at the climax of this movie a notable sentence: "I'm a Machine, desire is irrelevant". John, human, was not better than his Cyber friend, John had a fate to accomplish... John had a destiny and he felt a prisioner of it... I don't believe in fate but in the responsability that comes with the knowledge about something; J. Connor knew, since the moment he was borned, what was going to come to his life.
As we are in the field of the "Eschatological films", I remember Morpheus, in Matrix, saying to Neo: "The Oracle told you just what you needed to hear"... What we know- in other words- what we think we know, creates our reality and determines our possible life paths. My question today is: What the hack do we know about anything?, moreover, What do you know about your own life... do you know it by heart? a simplier question: Who are you? and after you can define it, Who told you that about yourself? Did you discovered it on your own?. getting to the point of this issue: What do you want?, I cannot still know if my answer to that question comes from my self knowledge or from some parental imago... Super Ego, some one should say. Jung once said: "the aparent individual conflict of the pacient reveals an universal conflict of its environment and era. The neurosis is then, just an individual intent, failed by the way, to resolve an universal problem"
Clearly is not well defined yet who or what is what determines the universal problems today, the power is difused among the market's "invisible hand", such liberalism ate the free individual and today, our individual conflicts (as well as our desires) are mediated by that difused power wich feeds itself by our unsatisfied human needs.
We are the generation of the created needs, we are the massive media generation, (it is overwhelming how mass media has the same meaning than mediation),we are the generation of mediated desires, needs and feelings, what for? To allow the machine keep on working and we continue to believe that is the way how, someday, we all can eat. What do we want? desire is irrelevant, because what we desire is mediated, by who? nobody knows, we just believe that there is no other possible system, belief that is, in my opinion (and hope), mediated too.
