we’re surfacing, aren’t we?

Aside from this (be­low) be­ing the per­fect rant about … let’s call them, en­er­getic fans of Star Wars … it made me re­al­ize these com­plaints are just a clas­sic ex­am­ple of usu­al­ly non-cre­ative types of peo­ple be­ing up­set at some­thing they don’t have any oth­er point of ref­er­ence for.

They also don’t like change.

If you ask any­one around you RIGHT now,

“What is the first clas­sic Greek tale or a term used by, oh, I dun­no, Joseph Campbell(an academic)?”

in any form, and they pull up something as base lev­el as the sto­ry of Medusa or the movie for the sto­ry of Ja­son and the Arg­onauts, while they’re not wrong, what they’d be demon­strat­ing a sur­face-lev­el-un­der­stand­ing of a sub­ject MOST peo­ple are near com­plete­ly un­aware of, and one that oth­ers are WELL LEARN-ED in.

An­oth­er sur­face-lev­el-un­der­stand­ing ex­am­ple is how some­one likes a joke ref­er­ence on Fam­i­ly Guy but has nev­er seen the ac­tu­al movie or char­ac­ter from his­to­ry in its orig­i­nal con­text that it ref­er­ences, but the joke still lands … every­one can be a FAN of a sto­ry told and not NEED to know its source ma­te­ri­als or ori­gin (be­cause af­ter all, NOTH­ING IS UNIQUE) in or­der to EN­JOY it … but you’re a real sur­face lev­el hu­man if you don’t both­er to put in the ef­fort to un­der­stand it WHILE you com­plain about it — someone’s deep lev­el of re­search and un­der­stand­ing that they’ve put into their work … work that shows, to the rest of us who have.

And THAT’S why the MCU is real cin­e­ma.

 

—blu

Flom­mist Blu is an enig­ma. A metaphor wrapped in an al­le­go­ry. ‘I am Jack’s colon. If I get can­cer, I kill Jack.’ Copy­right © 2019 mechanizzm.

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