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What documentary are you watching?
WARNING GRAPHIC SCENES
The War You Don't See: Secrets and Lies in the Mainstream Media (2010)
The War You Don't See is a powerful and timely investigation into the media's role in war, tracing the history of embedded; and independent reporting from the carnage of World War One to the destruction of Hiroshima, and from the invasion of Vietnam to the current war in Afghanistan and disaster in Iraq.
As weapons and propaganda become even more sophisticated, the nature of war is developing into an electronic battlefield in which journalists play a key role, and civilians are the victims.
But who is the real enemy?
"Never believe anything until it is officially denied"
~Francis Claud Cockburn~
What documentary have you been watching ?
Shoshin1
Re: What documentary are you watching?
Funny that you should post about this docu, @lobster, because I was going to as well. Some friends in the UK had alerted me after it was shown on ITV last night, and I have read about it in The Guardian because it is a film about my childhood. I was in some of those communes when I was a young teen, between the ages of 11 and 13, and while I wasn’t abused, my heart goes out to those who were and were there with me.
I’m pretty sure Osho knew nothing about it, he spoke out on a number of occasions against the child abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. It turns out he wasn’t far-sighted enough to see what kind of people would be attracted to a commune featuring ‘free sex’, or to take account of that when he said “all the adults together will take responsibility for raising the kids”.
My own experience was that there were some adults at the Ranch who were “too friendly”, I found it suspicious and steered clear of them. But I’ve heard from friends about others who were less smart or cautious, and got taken advantage of, boys as well as girls.
Jeroen
Re: What is a healthy mythology?
Are you aware of Joseph Campbell?
I believe he was the first to propose and document with examples across times and geography that all mythologies follow the same general pattern: what he called "the hero's journey".
From that perspective, it does not much matter if the mythology is Inuit, Mongolian, Roman Empire, Gaelic, Disney... it's all basically same-same in structure and overarching messages.
marcitko
Re: What is a healthy mythology?
A spiritual friend recommended the book "Jung and Frodo: 7 Paths of Individuation in Lord of the Rings". Since you're mentioning archetypes and quoted Celebrimbor in another thread, I suspect you might find the book interesting.
I mostly read it and found it fun and stimulating. It's a light read, maybe too light ie. too simplistic. But it touched on two of my interests, psychology and Tolkien, so I was glad to have stumbled upon it.
marcitko
Re: What is a healthy mythology?
I've resonated with the archetypes in the book King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, particularly the magician. I often use the more "childish" forms to explore myths and archetypes.
person
Re: What is a healthy mythology?
@marcitko said:
Probably quite right that the hero's journey is not the only myth type. I would be interested to learn whether the other types of myths mentioned are also maybe universal and similar across times and cultures.
Creation myths and Flood myths occur in many cultures. About the others I am less sure.
Joseph Campbell wrote a series of four books, The Masks of God, in which he expounds the mythologies around the world and at various times. Unfortunately not available as pdf, but the Wikipedia article on Campbell contains some detail.
Jeroen
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It is amazing that, when I stop trying to make sense of the world, it makes so much more sense.
Lionduck
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
@Shoshin1 said:
Sounds bloody cold ...
Well it is, we almost had frost in October, that’s pretty unheard-of here. Clear skies and winds from the north tend to bring these very cold temperatures. But the weather here has been more unstable the last five years or so… in the past it was the Jet Stream bringing warm air and seawater from the Americas and without that Europe would be a lot colder, but there is talk that climate change may destabilise it.
Jeroen
Re: Just for fun: the random, useless announcements thread!
I hear ya @lobster ..
Working with technology which (so they tell you) has been designed to make life easier can be quite a frustrating experience.
Shoshin1