October 4, 2008 ·
so there we have it. Sarah did me proud during her performance of the vp presidential electoral debate. To be honest, I expected nothing more from Palin than giving herself a fighting chance, and that she did. Palin executed some improper forms of reasoning with which intellectuals will hang themselves over, but in the grand scheme of things, so did Margret Thatcher's liberals as the Iron Lady of all time. That being said, I cannot vouch for how big a blow this is to the Obama camp. They seem like an odd mismatch between two very shrewd mortals. Hillary Clinton at least gave Obama the worse of herself as an enemy, compared though to Palin, Palin nearly deflected all of the criticism in her short-bed-fellow Republican running mate John McCain. The 700bil$ mugging of taxpayers dollars should help vault voter confidence toward the Republican platform.
The cnd debate between Jack Layton and whatever-her-name-is. . . oh yeah, I wannabe a rockstar Elizabeth May served nothing worth even mentioning. Stephen Harper I thought was going to turn into a fiddle drivel of banality with the onslaught of insults coming in his direction. Harper least impressed me most - and in this debate - probably the worst I have seen by far. Stephen Dion literally had nothing to work off in this debate, because Harper enjoyed his own unstrategic window of glory, which really cannot be taken into the consideration of cnd conservatives within. Harper did absolutely nothing, and Dion wasn't willing to sound as idiotic as Jack Layton did with all of the talking.
What an utter embarrassment for Cnd voters. Simply pathetic leaders at that table. They can beat each other though.
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I saw the movie blindness - with mark ruffalo/ julianne moore. This pic is very avantgarde, but well adapted for the screen. It touches on some of the more sensitive subject matter as topics that are deeply embedded within the film. It is the kind of material that will provoke thought, and is very existential in its view. Therefore, it will be quite hard to digest for the average viewer.
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The movie blindness is very special to me. It really takes courage to evaluate it's obvious metaphors within the context of an abstract model, of an imperfect universe which we fail to grasp. We live within the framework of such incredulity, which to
me, can vary in the opposite discretion of its viewer. Essentially, this is the task which one must dictate if one is to personify the meaning behind (author) Jose Saramago's intent within the story.
Imagine, if you were blind in a world filled with white, where everything and everyone around you.
Within that construct of propter being 'blindness' whcih confronts a make-shift reality, there is a vision of what might humanity appear to be through a historical revision of the facts?
Essentially, the thought process of the films viewer is met with hostile often rigorous misfortune over. What could possibly serve this film to its viewer, that warrants such a displacement of our basic human desires? How is that even debateable less profitable?
Saramago's ingenious method of the metaphor which creates this drudgery of inhumanity, is a reflection of the trivial aspects society has been elevated on - though not by choice. I think what Saramago is commenting on, is a view of life as we believe it is compared to the knowledge within a world of deceit. A world of blindness that our contempt to it, might actually result in our stripping away of the evolution between humanity and ambition be it based on survival benefit.
The true element which 'blindness' is prevalent, is to answer the question, can you be faced with the cruelties which have shaped the world we live in today. That tomorrow, you realize everything is not what it once was.
Part of Saramago's characterization of the 'magic' boy is a symbol of irony, that ones innocence is undying. That blindness is not a cureable disease, but a commodity of the ruthless suffering throughout much of our world's ignorance to it.
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He talks about genocide, the dictatorships that conquer man, the insitution of marriage, control, lust, greed. Community. The abolition of the state. Anarchy. Communist regime changes, rationing, martial law.
These are mere fragments that polarize
the human condition, though illegitimate as blindness may be to those that are dually unaware.
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