Avant-Garde filmmaker David Lynch on Transformation: For Better or Worse?
Yesterday, I emphasized the need to implement a humanistic philosophy in our public schools. There is one university in Fairfield, Iowa who seems to grasp this need. Filmmaker David Lynch is a visionary who explores the dark, mysterious unknown. His films (Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive) intertwine reality with a dream world or afterlife. He addressed a question by a journalist at this university, asking him if he is able to eradicate anxiety and hatred while working on a film project.
Films intrigue us with snapshots. In a sense, they're like our dreams. Typically, I idly stand by watching events transpire before my eyes. A creative writing instructor said he attempted to jot down everything he remembered about his dreams when he woke up each morning. Admittedly, I applied this same routine for a mere few days and stopped.
President Barack Obama persistently used one word throughout his campaign, "Change." For political speak, Republicans said this was code for the government to interfere in their lives. Some numb Democrats believed and perhaps still do, government can and will soon be the answer to all their woes. Lynch quite succinctly tells this journalist how change has to come from within. Enjoy this brief video clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1TCvzLDzKg&feature=channel
Today's Republicans continue advocating for individual freedoms and responsibilities. What good does that do when you strip away freedoms and don't hold yourselves accountable? The peddlers will continue distracting you with character assassinations on Democrats. That's all they've got. "Well, the God I believe in isn't short of cash, mister," Paul "Bono" Hewson, U2, "Bullet the Blue Sky," Rattle and Hum
P.J. Gaffney at Omaha, Nebraska's Mahoney State Park.
3 comments:
Good vid. I'm sure you've heard me say, "If you don't go within, you go without". Just because negative thoughts are going through your mind doesn't mean you have to pay attention to them. Here's a meditation that takes but 60 seconds a day:
http://spiritlibrary.com/conversations-with-god/neale-talks-about-meditation
Well said Thomas and thanks for the link. This is something I need to start practicing again. I'm headed off for a family reunion in Omaha, Neb til June 1. There's bound to be some downtime when I might post an entry from a relative's laptop. Take care, have a great weekend, and upcoming week.
I also need to do such things more often.
There's nothin' like a good ol' family reunion. Enjoy!!
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