Season 6

Season 6, Cosmology The first sentence of the story, the first sound, the opening shot. I started a preface to cosmology, a draft introduction, a test to see what I wanted to talk about. What clarity did I find? Young Joe attends a shamanic workshop. Everybody is in skins, it’s a primitive tribe in a…

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Preface to the proposed project, Presence

“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet, Shakespeare Everyone has a cosmology, an assortment of beliefs about how reality is constructed and functions. Cosmologies are the pragmatic extensions of origin stories. Origin stories feature fantastical elements, turtles becoming continents, volcano goddesses who embody as islands,…

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The Case for Franchise

Franchises mostly turn to shite. Star Wars, Terminator, Aliens, Lord of the Rings. After 2-3 sequels, everything that made the original wonderful is lost. Studio greed seems to be the culprit,  the desire for quick profit with minimal narrative risk. “Make it mediocre!” seems to be the overarching mandate. Nobody seems inspired or motivated to…

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Cross Section

What are we? A cross section in spacetime, aka flatland, of divinity. We are what divinity appears to be when viewed or experienced from a finite perspective, bounded by / projected into a simulation of limitation. How do I know this? I observe, I cultivate intuition, and I am lucky. The human ride is not…

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Neurons

Each box a neuron in an artificial neural net. Arti neurons are depicted as squares. How prescient of my 2006 self. What a sweet serendipity, an argument against one way flow of space time and perhaps a reconsideration of basic reality concepts. The people burn the boxes but she keeps making them in the underground…

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Corbett and Story

James Corbett wrote about the power of story back in 2020, and I’d guess there’s more more more about that right here at why.movie. Certainly, I’ve written more about story as reality creation in journals and the process log. How could DOG be the story that changes everything? Timmy Pleasure’s pamphlet rejiggered for the now.…

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You voted

A critique of our authority that we find laughable is – we never voted for you. Why that would even matter when most most of you consider your voting systems compromised? What you buy and believe are the only legitimate election mechanisms. You voted for us by yearning for our obviously worthless schlock, by believing…

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The bunker that ate the world

Growing up, we had a sweet cave in our backyard. A natural cavern that the previous owner, (I’ll call him Mr X) had fortified with a vault door from a defunct bank and cleverly hidden air shafts emerging under lichen encrusted boulders or disguised to look like fallen trees. The whole shebang wasn’t even listed…

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Exposition isn’t talking

Story comes from actions, characters opinions about things (training, past experience, their acceptance or rejection of norms), observations of the environment, interactions with others both friendly and antagonistic. Stories are basically the experience of characters, whether we are supposed to resonate or feel discord. A character who we cannot fathom, whose motivations don’t make sense,…

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Uncle Joe articulates Clique morality

“The world’s weapons are money, fame, and power, that is to say control over others by whatever means. But these are the not the most delicious weapons, the most elegant and fun weapons to wield. These worldly weapons are for those with little imagination, those who are blind to the best weapons ever, who don’t…

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