Crash
I went to see Crash this evening. This is a must see movie of uberity. It follows 48 hours of the lives multiple people of different races living in LA. Each of these people suffer from some kind of racism either implicitly or explicitly. Each of these people feel justified in their feelings until something happens to shake their worldview. It is about salvation and redemption. About being human and love. I rate it most highly.
In addition to this I think one of the main problems with the West is the dehumanising individualism that has its claws hooked into our culture. We live our lives in our circles and view with distrust everyone who is not in our circle. We fear those who are different and view with suspiscion anyone who is not from it. Anytime something goes wrong we revert to this bigotry. Anytime someone fulfills a racial stereotype we take it to be justification for our view of this race. Rather than being an aberation from the norm it is taken to be the norm. This is not being human this is dehumanising.
I see this all as kinda relating back to this post.
In addition to this I think one of the main problems with the West is the dehumanising individualism that has its claws hooked into our culture. We live our lives in our circles and view with distrust everyone who is not in our circle. We fear those who are different and view with suspiscion anyone who is not from it. Anytime something goes wrong we revert to this bigotry. Anytime someone fulfills a racial stereotype we take it to be justification for our view of this race. Rather than being an aberation from the norm it is taken to be the norm. This is not being human this is dehumanising.
I see this all as kinda relating back to this post.
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