My body doesn't do as my mind wishes (another evidence that Hegel is wrong and Marx is right! Matter over mind. ;-)).
Quite true. I've been exploring through theater and various forms of therapy, the mind/heart/body connection. To often we focus on the mind, and forget that the body and the heart inform the mind not the opposite way around. I co-wrote a play this year that explored how the heart/mind have to be work together - and Descartes view that mind was superior was a load of crap.
It's made a world of difference in my own health. Well that and a stringent diet. ;-)
Anyhow, I hope things turn out okay, best of luck.
Thanks for sharing the Brecht piece...I like that quote a lot. And agree some directors and writers have actually done a fairly good job of depicting war and military conflicts. Robert Altman didn't do a bad job of it with MASH, nor did the tv series for that matter. You can do it well. BSG actually handled military fairly well. As does Falling Skies for that matter.
In a TV series about body integrity and ownership and identity of one's self i think the complicated matter of warfare and its participants cannot be explored to the fullest - at least not in the typical 40 minutes, 10 episodes format we are given.)
True. But that's all the more reason why they shouldn't have gone there - or I wish they avoided going there. There's so many more interesting avenues to explore.
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Date: 2014-06-27 10:55 pm (UTC)My body doesn't do as my mind wishes (another evidence that Hegel is wrong and Marx is right! Matter over mind. ;-)).
Quite true. I've been exploring through theater and various forms of therapy, the mind/heart/body connection. To often we focus on the mind, and forget that the body and the heart inform the mind not the opposite way around. I co-wrote a play this year that explored how the heart/mind have to be work together - and Descartes view that mind was superior was a load of crap.
It's made a world of difference in my own health. Well that and a stringent diet. ;-)
Anyhow, I hope things turn out okay, best of luck.
Thanks for sharing the Brecht piece...I like that quote a lot. And agree some directors and writers have actually done a fairly good job of depicting war and military conflicts. Robert Altman didn't do a bad job of it with MASH, nor did the tv series for that matter. You can do it well. BSG actually handled military fairly well. As does Falling Skies for that matter.
In a TV series about body integrity and ownership and identity of one's self i think the complicated matter of warfare and its participants cannot be explored to the fullest - at least not in the typical 40 minutes, 10 episodes format we are given.)
True. But that's all the more reason why they shouldn't have gone there - or I wish they avoided going there. There's so many more interesting avenues to explore.