After the reckoning, it is time for resolutions. What did you promise yourself for 2014? Some people say, with a rebel spirit, I am not gonna change anything. Some others force themselves to make, if not changes, at least resolutions. But few actually act out, either by accepting or altering, in order to become more content. Because, the truth is, we are not content.
The question is why. Do we ask that at all? If we do, do we keep on asking it? And if we do, do we accept the answer?
As a scholar, I have always felt, it always starts with the question. To find the right question is already the answer. The other day I found a video which nicely illustrates this idea: the future belongs to the curious.
Ask. And ask again. And the quest for the answer will guide your way.
And the film raised a question in me.
Why is it that few would notice, considering it natural, that the actor-character, to whom the future belongs, is male?
What do you mean in your final question under "actor-character"?
ReplyDeleteThe narrator?
I have coupled his speech to the pictures I have seen, and the fact,
that I hear a male voice seemed to be totally neutral to me.
Console yourself! Curiosity has been brought to mankind by Eve,
as she bit into the apple.
Counter-question: did anybody notice, that everybody occurring
in the video is definitely young? (I'll be 70 soon...)
I meant that the choice of the main character being male is so pervasive, and as such, seems natural (or neutral). When it is not.
DeleteJust like the issue you brought up. It feels natural -- because of the practice and not because of logic or reality -- that the active character is young.
Media representations are both sexist and ageist (and racist, and so on). We tend to notice only / mainly those aspects in which we personally are affected (me being a woman, you being a senior, someone else being Asian, African, Buddhist, and so on).
And one note about Eve: her curiosity is rarely considered positive and constructive by culture, as opposed to his curiosity (like in this video).
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