Executive summary:
I liked inception and this 'review' of it:
http://themoviepreviewcritic.com/html/inception_movie_review.html
Body:
I will be a professor some day. I will research how to help those with functional levels of autism reach their potential in a working environment and how said environment can help.
Inception was a movie that was entertaining on a 120+ level and a 130+ level if you love cinema. I must admit to my own limitations in this regard and be willing to admit that I can not fully judge the movie on my own, but I what i felt was hinted at is confirmed in this article.
Though I wonder, what is it worth... as they said in "the waking life" "it's bad enough that they get your waking-hours for minimum wage but they also get your dreams for free".
This makes me wonder about the nature of being a human and what matters in life. Was my professor, one of the few people I give a great deal of well deserved respect, right? As I mentioned that I was going to watch the new star-trek movie just as our last class for the semester let out she said to me: "Rohny! you do not have time to keep up with the star-trek, you are a researcher now!"
I have watched my non-technical media consumption drop from 40 hours a week to 20 hours a week and now to between 2-4 hours a week I wonder.. why do I own a PS3? I don't play video games and I barely watch the TV. I suppose my wife still consumes 10 or so hours a week as she cares for the children but still...
I used to love strategy games, I still do. But if you told me 3 years ago that I would not be one of the people to obtain star-craft 2 within the first few hours, that I would not have even played it nor have even planed on playing it well after its release... I would have laughed at you.
I am a dedicated thinker. I spend all of my time either solving puzzles, arguing about puzzles, or gaining knowledge so that I can do better at puzzles. And yet an epic puzzle arrives and I don't even think to play it... what happened?
I found out something very important about life: you can spend your time living in someone else's dream, solving puzzles created by others and advancing in a little sand box... or you can wake up.
My reality is shaped by my own dreams, I have the tools and wit with-which to carve out my own place in the discussion. Consensual reality is, in part, shaped by my dreaming. I have a puzzle that matters to human endeavor and I see how I can help shape the world into a more loving place.
Further, I will have rooms full of minds ready to tune me out and get a piece of paper saying they know something that they already knew. I will speak to them and they won't hear me, they are almost all bound to be asleep... maybe someone will wake up, maybe they won't. If it is in my class that's fine, but I don't expect it and i certainly won't expect that I caused it.
I liked inception and this 'review' of it:
http://themoviepreviewcritic.com/html/inception_movie_review.html
Body:
I will be a professor some day. I will research how to help those with functional levels of autism reach their potential in a working environment and how said environment can help.
Inception was a movie that was entertaining on a 120+ level and a 130+ level if you love cinema. I must admit to my own limitations in this regard and be willing to admit that I can not fully judge the movie on my own, but I what i felt was hinted at is confirmed in this article.
Though I wonder, what is it worth... as they said in "the waking life" "it's bad enough that they get your waking-hours for minimum wage but they also get your dreams for free".
This makes me wonder about the nature of being a human and what matters in life. Was my professor, one of the few people I give a great deal of well deserved respect, right? As I mentioned that I was going to watch the new star-trek movie just as our last class for the semester let out she said to me: "Rohny! you do not have time to keep up with the star-trek, you are a researcher now!"
I have watched my non-technical media consumption drop from 40 hours a week to 20 hours a week and now to between 2-4 hours a week I wonder.. why do I own a PS3? I don't play video games and I barely watch the TV. I suppose my wife still consumes 10 or so hours a week as she cares for the children but still...
I used to love strategy games, I still do. But if you told me 3 years ago that I would not be one of the people to obtain star-craft 2 within the first few hours, that I would not have even played it nor have even planed on playing it well after its release... I would have laughed at you.
I am a dedicated thinker. I spend all of my time either solving puzzles, arguing about puzzles, or gaining knowledge so that I can do better at puzzles. And yet an epic puzzle arrives and I don't even think to play it... what happened?
I found out something very important about life: you can spend your time living in someone else's dream, solving puzzles created by others and advancing in a little sand box... or you can wake up.
My reality is shaped by my own dreams, I have the tools and wit with-which to carve out my own place in the discussion. Consensual reality is, in part, shaped by my dreaming. I have a puzzle that matters to human endeavor and I see how I can help shape the world into a more loving place.
Further, I will have rooms full of minds ready to tune me out and get a piece of paper saying they know something that they already knew. I will speak to them and they won't hear me, they are almost all bound to be asleep... maybe someone will wake up, maybe they won't. If it is in my class that's fine, but I don't expect it and i certainly won't expect that I caused it.
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