Plenty of insights. But reality without symbols to filter it is lovecraftian, nightmare inducing: that's what the existentialists tried to tell you. The cinematographic identity is the how we evolved not to become mad at the unadulterated realness of things, and beyond the repulsiveness of what we see without symbols (the meat of the fle…
Plenty of insights. But reality without symbols to filter it is lovecraftian, nightmare inducing: that's what the existentialists tried to tell you. The cinematographic identity is the how we evolved not to become mad at the unadulterated realness of things, and beyond the repulsiveness of what we see without symbols (the meat of the flesh, the disgusting processes). Because in the end, if we remove all symbols we would only see death, impending. And the Thing that looks unflinching at death and does not go mad is not a human anymore, and has no desires.
In french, all the things we choose to spend time on for fun are called distractions.
My take is: "reality without symbols" [RWS] is the Dao, mainly in the sense of "the RWS that can be spoken is not the real RWS". Terms like lovecraftian / nightmare-inducing are still labels that point to one aspect of that RWS [reference to Blind men and an elephant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant ]. It feels a bit of a linguistic cheat/trick/gimmick, but [IMHO] that's part of the point, a trick to break with the linguistic aspect of it.
Plenty of insights. But reality without symbols to filter it is lovecraftian, nightmare inducing: that's what the existentialists tried to tell you. The cinematographic identity is the how we evolved not to become mad at the unadulterated realness of things, and beyond the repulsiveness of what we see without symbols (the meat of the flesh, the disgusting processes). Because in the end, if we remove all symbols we would only see death, impending. And the Thing that looks unflinching at death and does not go mad is not a human anymore, and has no desires.
In french, all the things we choose to spend time on for fun are called distractions.
My take is: "reality without symbols" [RWS] is the Dao, mainly in the sense of "the RWS that can be spoken is not the real RWS". Terms like lovecraftian / nightmare-inducing are still labels that point to one aspect of that RWS [reference to Blind men and an elephant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant ]. It feels a bit of a linguistic cheat/trick/gimmick, but [IMHO] that's part of the point, a trick to break with the linguistic aspect of it.