Krimel said to dmb:Well take ringing phone. The sound of a ringing phone has a mythos all its own. It signals an incoming message. It is the Greek god Mercury; the herald of good news; the harbinger of doom. dmb says:Right, Hermes just called with a message from the gods - during dinner -and they want to know if you're happy with your long-distance phone service. Puh-leeze. Yes, myths are alive and well at the movies but other than that I think everything you said is pure drivel. Multitasking is shapeshifting!?! Freudian advertising is mythological? Hardly. It plays on animal instincts, which for Freud was all we can find in the unconscious. Heiddeger, Dewey and I are just whiners? C'mon Krimel, I know you can do better than that. Or maybe insulting my intelligence was your aim. In that case, you couldn't have done better. You know why Darth Vader is the villian in Hollywood's modern mythology? Cause he's more machine than human. You know why there are so many "mad scientists" in the movies? Same reason. UFOs? These are features of a myth that tell us technology is dehumanizing, threatening and alienating. Read those symbols properly and you'll get some idea of what the problem is. Its interesting to note that the young people in China, thanks to modern technology and life style, are now experiencing that same sense of meaninglessness and alienation that we've been talking about in the West since Emerson's time.
_________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Chat. Store. Share. Do more with mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t1_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
