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Review COMING SOON
Nothing I just be vibin' and reading !!
I mean, IDK, this is a classic. I'm sure it has shaped our modern society, if by perspective alone.
The ending was... He was clearly trying to make a point but it felt a forced. Huxley walked so later works could run, kinda thing.
Of course, I can't help but compare it to the internet. A joyous hole that one goes to dissociate. What Huxley got wrong, is that lows make highs. Of course, that would be more complicated to write about and also I doubt there was any psychology on that matter at that time. The pop psych of the time was Freud's big mouth; probably why Huxley made all the children play sex games. I can see why Huxley would chose sex as a 'distractor'. It's perfect. I'm suprised he didn't touch more on food actually, if he was going by instictual urges to placate the human being. Maybe the idea was uninteresting to him, or he thought it would lead to some kind of imbalance in his world. On further Wiki-ing, it appears that in this time, Huxley was under the belief that population would outgrow its ability to support itself, and thus perhaps that could possibly explain the utilitarian food situation. Without extravance, so as to fit into the idea that the Earth had limited resources and required careful balance.
Consumerism as a post-WW1 idea. Perhaps Huxley was involved in popularizing the topic. I wouldn't have assumed that many people thought negatively of it at the time, but probably that was my own ignorance. There is inevitably going to be pushback when you try to change the way people have been actively living their lives.
I did enjoy reading this book.
Ah but how would we remind ourselves that sky and grass exist when we are locked into screens inside of our suburban oasis if our home was build to be efficient in dealing with the elements? How would BC Hydro make a fuck ton of money if homes did not get too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter?
When I've been in museums with those fancy beds with draperies to the ceiling, the explanation for this is that it was wealthy people showing off their wealth. But there is an itch I get when I feel like I'm not getting the entire pie. There is always a "reason". No human is socially bold enough to say, hey, here's this other way I could show off that I have a fuck ton of money, let me just like hang fabric from the ceiling over my bed. Rich people showing off their wealth need it to make sense to other human beings. E.g., how chairs and whatever were made so that certain people could literally be "above" others. But now I understand that drapery has a utilitarian source so that's does somewhat satisfy the itch.
Side note, I've been thinking about when mosquito nets were "cool" and you could buy them at Ikea back in the 2000s? Remember that, anyone? I had a purple one when I was a kid, to match my purple walls and purple sheets. Too bad they were probably all 100% polyester or I might look for one.
I do love the idea of revisiting "decorating" for the winter. Instead of setting up plastic shit around the house, pulling our your winter fabrics, rugs, to hang and layer. I've been getting into crocheting and knitting during the past year and I think this would be a good place to focus my efforts and improve my abilities. Making something in the late summer/fall to "decorate" and insulate my apartment for the winter.
I'm also wanting to improve my summer festival campsite game for next year. Close to 40 during the day and 8-9 at night. Seens like to improve airflow I may want to raise the sides of the shelter. That there is a ridiculous amount of dust there is unideal. Not a 'natural' environment since it is for pasture.
Damn. Go off.
I coded so hard tbh.
Not a film I'd rewatch but I don't regret watching it either. It took my boyfriend and I 3 days to watch this. He finally brought a version with subtitles to I could understand wtf they were saying (tv speakers).
Last night I didn't like the ending, I felt it was anti-climactic. But now I kind of think I like it. The 'fun' ending would've been - well, I thought he was about to take over what Kurtz had amassed around him. But then he left. So, like, props to the character for breaking through all the shit and suffering.
I think I more appreciated the latter half or so, where it felt like the pace slowed, it becane trippier. Vs the fast-paced war scenes that occurred earlier in the movie. I understand the use of both though, to emphasis the point of the movie.
There were things left to be desired from this movie, I felt. Maybe this is a snobbish perspective. Mostly I am thinking like, cinematography-wise, mood-setting. Though perhaps I'm not appreciating that this movie is also almost 50 years old. Some Vietnamese perspective could have been interested, but perhaps that wouldn't have fit in with the movie, since we were following Willard. I think I could've done without the playboy scene(s) and the French scene was was just confusing to me, assuming this is because I don't know a lot about the history. Thus, I think the non-Redux version would have been fine.
For making it's point as an anti-war film though - I'd say that it was beautifully done. By that, I'm referring to Kurtz' story and how he came to be where he was. By no method at all.