so, ive had the captain planet song stuck in my head for forever. it was just pretty bad!!!!! like throughout the lecture the guy is talking about arcadia! and romanticism! and [gasp] caspar david friedrich! and im trying to process all that and note it down to the tune of and he's fighting on the planet's side...
the truth is that when you look past the happy disneyfication, the reality of a lot of these trendy movements are rooted in much less ideal circumstances. if the scientific revolution objectified and reduced nature, rendering it a giant machine then as berger rightly states God becomes a distant, passive force that is no longer manifested in the everyday. perhaps thre is a certain loss of innocence; and we pine for an Eden in an essentially sentimentalised and escapist sense. doing modern world history and lit is enlightening in that, i can clearer understand a lot of the phenomena that we take for granted and dont think twice about today.
you could go all postmodern and talk about being disillusioned and dispossessed now, but nevermind.
back to random musing. when i was a kid i never understood why there was a wimpy boy whose power was 'heart'. it just didnt seem v efficacious- hello i'd prefer the coolness and destructive potential of like PWOAR FIRE WIND WATER etc anytime. but then when you think back on it, it -is- very poignant. you cannot do anything without the will.
mellie contemplated 12:36 AM
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