Man creates his own meaning.

Man is but a mere bug/a dot/a virus/ in this transitory space and he has to pass his time through it.

So man creates his own meaning - This is so that he does not go mad or fall into a state of nihilism. The insignificance and loneliness of mankind in this cosmos is terrifying.

Consequently he creates arts, films, theatres, music, the idea of a career, job, education, wealth accumulation, family, children, love, war, marriage, shopping, fishing, sports, reading, acquiring knowledge, dancing, gardening, shooting, hunting, traveling, alcohol, smoking, conquering mountains, hiking, net browsing, introducing and using technologies, flying, blogging, etc., etc., …to fill up his time

Otherwise or apart from it - Life is meaningless.

Der Blaue Engel - Josef von Sternberg

This German film in which a pretentious, naïve middle-aged high-school teacher’s life is destroyed through his romantic infatuation with a seductively wayward young cabaret-singer he meets at a nightclub, showcases a downward spiral filled with hopelessness toward absolute nadir.

It portrays a catastrophic transformation of a man from a respectable professor to a cuckold cabaret clown, losing all human dignity, nose-diving into madness and eventual death

Life starts jolly well – and then things go terribly wrong!

One can see how man is responsible for his own action and destruction

Questions?

From Thales (636-546), Anaximander (c.611-c.547 B.C.), Pythagoras (c.580-c.520 B.C.), Parmenides (c. 515-c. 445 B.C.,) Heraclitus (fl. 500 B.C, ), Anaxagoras (c. 499-c. 428 B.C.), Socrates (c. 469-399 B.C.), Plato (c. 427-347 B.C.) to Aristotle (384-322 B.C.);

from Gottfried Leibniz (1646 AD–1716 AD), Giordano Bruno (1548 AD-1600 AD), Galileo Galilei (1564 AD – 1642 AD), René Descartes (1596 AD – 1650 AD), Voltaire (1694 AD–1778 AD), David Hume (1711 AD–1776 AD), Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 AD — 1778 AD), to Immanuel Kant (1724 AD – 1804 AD);

from Hegel (1770 AD – 1831 AD), Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 AD – 1860 AD), Søren Kierkegaard (1813 AD – 1855 AD), Karl Marx (1818 AD – 1883 AD) , Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 AD – 1900 AD), Edmund Husserl (1859 AD – 1938 AD), Bertrand Russell (1872 AD – 1970 AD) , Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 AD – 1951 AD) , Martin Heidegger (1889 AD – 1976 AD) , Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 AD – 1980 AD);

since then - we have still been asking the same questions :“Who are we? – Why are we here? – What is the meaning of life? - How should we live? – Where are we going?”

Present Status : No satisfactory answer!

Indoctrination

The Consumer Slaves AKA The Debt Slaves

It has been said that the world’s 1% of the rich and powerful controls the rest of the 99%. They decide what we should eat, see, read, wear, buy and think, how we should look or what habits we should acquire!

If so then are we destined to lead the rest of our lives as consumer slaves who work harder and harder to buy things |_*_| we cannot afford?

Has the system put us in a spirally downward path of studying hard to get a University degree and then a job, eventually joining the millions and billions of aspirants to become a debt slave, trying to buy things that we don’t or won’t need?.


To top it, we are made to pay taxes (for buying these "THINGS") which instead of being used for the welfare of the society is used up to develop nuclear and chemical arms to destroy mankind and their infrastructures.

Can science help or save human from Indoctrination?

|_*_| The Things :
(Versace, Gucci, Givenchy, Cartier, Chanel, Rolex, Prada, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Giorgio Armani, Pierre Cardin, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Bvlgari, Montblanc, René Lacoste, Ralph Lauren, L’oreal, Tiffany & Co., Fendi, Burberry, etc., etc. - the list goes on and on)

Waste of Time

* If you are young, you may be talented. Have you ever seen a man talented when he reaches mid-life?


* It is not very difficult to do things that you don’t know. But if you know, then you cannot do difficult things.


* Maybe it is some ambiguity, some fantasy, some mystery, which eggs us on to live life. Had life been perfect, we may have ended it.


* Sometimes, everything looks like a waste of time.

Social Life and Loneliness

• Definition of a communist: Anyone the Americans don’t like!

• Everything in life is not where you live – it is somewhere else.

• To quote Ingmar Berman: “In that way, I'm very Swedish — I don't dislike to be alone”

• Over the number of years (and somewhere here one may tend to agree with Kushwant Singh) that a realization creeps in that most of the time, all our so called social relationships are restricted to gossiping and disparaging other people thoughts and their manners. This awareness may slowly push one to detach oneself from the purported social life. The days then passes in isolation.

• When you are young, you are so full of hope and life. You have your own view of life. You then think that everything that you touch would turn into gold. Gradually you realize that everything you touch actually turns to shit when all your views of life starts melting. You become conscious that the so called views of life don’t exist.

Ban it!!!!!

A cluster of people form a Government and usurp authority, thanks to the general public. Once they sit on the throne, they metamorphosis to an oligarchic status and manage to use their powers to curb or ban one or more of these:


Time travel,

Long hair, Spiked Hair, Hair cut, Games Consoles, Video games, Check Shirts, Tattoo,

Miniskirts, Social mixing, Bikinis, Music Schools, Sophocles, Ketchup, Spanking, Baby Walker, Baby Sitter, Twitter, Face book, Tolstoy,

Euripides, strikes, Aristophanes, Dictionaries, Yellow Clothes, Cell Phones, Sartre,

Mannequins, Freedom of the press, Marijuana, McDonald’s, KFC’s,

Women Drivers, Casinos, Pornography, Televisions, Internet & Websites, Wi-Fi, sociology, Gyms, Chewing gum, Beckett,

Bars, Night Clubs, Women in Pubs, Dance Bars, Milk, Alcohol,

Smoking, Smoking anything on the screen, Dostoyevsky, Being Gay, Valentine’s Day, Rap Music, Rock Music, pop music, Jazz,

Cycling, Prostitution, Movie and Theatre Halls, Foreign Films, Beef, Bacon, Books,

Movies, Cartoons, Paintings, Alice in Wonderland, Pets, Coca-Cola & Pepsi,

Computers, The Big Bang Theory, The God Particle, Online dating, Soaps, Feeding the Homeless,

The Hour of the Furnaces (Spanish: La hora de los hornos) - Fernando Solanas

Being exposed to Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas will get you a glimpse of Latin America especially in the 60s.

His movie “The Hour of the Furnaces” whether one can take it as propaganda or a documentary work gives the insight of Argentina and Latin America in General and how the ”Organization of American States” the “OAS” made dozens of armed interventions trying to exploit the South American resources.

This work is about treason, exploitation, violence, poverty, hunger, oppression, suppression, colonialism, imperialism and how we are taught to think in English!


The work is divided into 3 parts, around 4 hours long

I Neocolonialism and Violence (95 min),
II The Liberation Struggle (120 min),
III Violence and Liberation (45 min).


The 1st part (Neocolonialism and Violence) is segregated in 12 series, viz., History, Earth, Everyday violence, Port city - Buenos Aires, Oligarchy, System, Political violence, Neo-racism, Dependence, Cultural violence, Ideological war and Alternative option. The part terminates with the face of the deceased Che Guevara for about 3 minutes.

The film endevours to perform a broad study of the history, geography, economy, sociology, ideology, culture, religion and daily life of Latin America

Among the many statements in the film, some that catches your attention are:

“Mass communications are more effective for neo-colonialism than napalm.”

"Artist and Intellectuals are controlled by the system"

"What is the only thing left for the Latin American? To choose through rebellion his own life and his own death."

A very eye opening and thought provoking experience.

For further studies : http://documentaryisneverneutral.com/words/camasgun.html

Le Couperet {The Axe} – Costa Gavras

Costa Gavras deals with the corporate gluttony and the consequences of scaling down manpower in his 2005 movie, Le Couperet {The Axe}. The corporate world and the CEOs don’t care about the effect as far as self esteem and sanity of a man is concerned. Exclusive profits without caring for human beings where man is reduced to nothing but a money making machine and is identified only with his job has become the socio-economic situation in today’s world.

Chronic unemployment does not leave you with much means of survival and what with the corporate world pushing up production and aggravating the use of merchandising to coerce consumption, leaving a man crazy, stressed out and depressed - reducing him to an entity where he is “what he can earn” - to obtain what?

You are termed as ‘smart’, if you can adjust to this overwhelmingly sick society.

The 4 Temperaments & -isms

The Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC) integrated the four temperaments into his theories. The four temperaments are:

1. Sanguine (pleasure-seeking and sociable),
2. Choleric (ambitious and leader-like),
3. Melancholic (analytical and quiet), and
4. Phlegmatic (relaxed and peaceful).

The above ingredients are possibly mixed to churn out more temperaments.

Now the theory is this: you either fall into one of the above category or you fall into one of the below –isms……

Agnosticism, Atheism, authoritarianism , Buddhism, Careerism , Commercialism, Communalism, Communism, Capitalism, Catechism, Chauvinism, Collectivism, Cynicism, Darwinism, Deism, Dualism, Empiricism, Evangelism, Existentialism, Extremism, , Fascism, Fanaticism, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Humanism, Individualism , Idealism, Individualism , Jainism, Judaism, Kantianism, Leninism, Liberalism, Hinduism, Maoism, Marxism, Nihilism, Nationalism, Objectivism, Optimism, Pacifism, Paganism, Pan deism, Pessimism, Pythagoreanism, Racism , Rationalism, Realism, Materialism, Stalinism, Spiritualism, Stoicism, Surrealism, Taoism, totalitarianism, Utopianism, Zoroastrianism, Zionism,

Either way – you are catalogued!!!

Costa Gavras

Any similarity to actual persons or events is deliberate. . . .And so the journey with Costa-Gavras began with Z.

After watching:

{1969} - Z
{1970} - L'aveu (The Confession)
{1972} - Etat de Siege (State Of Siege)
{1982} - Missing
{1983} - Hanna K
{1988} - Betrayed
{1989} - Music Box
{1997} - Mad City
{2002} - Amen
{2005} - Le Couperet (The Axe)
{2009} - Eden à l'ouest (Eden Is West)
{2012} - Le Capital

One should be a bit ashamed if one has not been exposed to the above works of Costa-Gavras and still exist in this world as if all is well.

99.99% of the Movies don’t let you think. It is Directors like Costa-Gavras, Andrei Tarkovsky, Kenji Mizoguchi, Santiago Alvarez, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Lars von Trier, Fernando Solanas, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Haneke, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Yasujiro Ozu amongst others, that trigger your cells. A good film director should be able to give his audience a blow in the head. He should be able to bring them out of their complacency and their apathy. But before you get exposed to these directors, prepare yourself. Don’t expect the director to fill you in.

Reading some events disturbs your mind, but when those same events are exposed in a cinematic form, it just blows the mind. Such is the power of Costa-Gavras’ movies. Most of his movies have a very Kafkaesque tone. Kafka was a man ahead of his time when he saw the future as an intimidating, inexplicable world in which Man is crushed by the wheels of a faceless bureaucracy. A large number of his films depict Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, Law and justice, Oppression, Authorized or Illegitimate violence, Torture, Persecution, Intimidation, Domestication and Enslavement of Citizens and misusing the power which is in the hands of the Government and not the people.

The dilemma is that Man defines man strictly by their Ideologies.