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Idea Jail keeps the mind stuck in a death rut
(Disclaimer: It’s a good point here to say that if you haven’t seen Avatar and plan to, you may want to bypass this post until after you’ve seen it.)
Despite what this may seem like, this is not specifically criticism of blockbuster films like Avatar. They’re fine. Rather, as someone who has studied the media for decades, I am acutely aware that much of what I’d like to see in movies hasn’t made it to the big screen. I would love to see movies step out of Idea Jail and break new ground by overcoming stereotypes.
I recently wrote about the nature of conflict in drama, that creating dramas is usually about creating artificial conflicts for characters to deal with. I questioned the long-term impact of a movie-goes, TV-watcher, and book reader mentally digesting the subliminal messages that life is constant conflict.
Let’s talk about this from a law of attraction perspective. If our media does not give us positive, exciting visions, it does not help us create positive, exciting futures. It has been my long-held view that a great service the arts could perform is to provide positive visions that can inspire people. As it is, the formula is to sometimes show happy-ending triumph, but along the way characters are often beaten up something fierce. Avatar is a great example.
Energize!
Sometimes I look at someone or their photo or something they have created and inside my soul I feel a warm glow of pure love. Sparkle, crackle, pop, zssst!
This glow is a hunger to bask in that person’s energy. I see something in them I want to experience. Maybe it is a loving look in their eyes. Maybe it is the brilliance of their creative mind as shown in something they wrote or drew or painted or photographed. Maybe it is something they said or something they reflected in an action they took, which may be something small like smiling kindly at a lonely stranger or big like riveting millions with miracles.
Love is energy. When you feel a burst of it, it’s like having a power snack. It’s a wave of vitality sweeping through you. You instantly feel uplifted, inspired, and empowered.
Yet in this dualistic world of good and evil, black and white, we are frequently conditioned to think that love is nothing if it is not shared. If we feel love and cannot share it, we are trained to push back on positive feelings with negative thoughts and “appropriate” (this era’s big buzz word) behavioral modifications. For me that generally means that I shut down, at least insofar as my public behavior goes.
Loving you is easy
Part One
I have a personality something like a nice mellow golden retriever. I quite simply love to love. Love to love you, Baby. Yeah.
If I had my way, I would openly love anyone. I’m aware how unrealistic that is on our troubled planet, but in my dream world, loving openly, freely, wildly, and enthusiastically would be a brilliant way to live. I have a natural inclination to look for the good in people; it simply feels better to me to look for good than to look for bad.
I think it would be great not to have to censor my attraction for people. If I liked something about someone I would like to just say so. I could talk about anything without filtering for political correctness or worrying how the other person might misinterpret my words.
