So many interesting topics/questions came up during the short clip we watched today. Here are a couple that caught my attention... feel free to comment and/or add your own:
- Referring to Spring on a farm: "Life is good and busy and brand new." Sounds like a statement that Sisyphus might be able to make... arguably, his existence/activity has 'meaning' and/or is 'good' and/or is 'happy' because it is busy. But is it brand new?
- Rebutting her father's comment that she should control herself, Vern refers the situation of killing the runt and says, "This is a matter of life and death and you talk about controlling myself?" When is emotion out of line? Does our culture/society encourage people to be more or less emotional? Is acting 'rationally' the ideal? For that matter, what does it really mean to 'act rationally'? Are emotions different from thoughts? Are thoughts easier or harder to control than emotions? Should we try to keep our 'thoughts' under control in the same way that it is often implied that we should keep our 'emotions' under control? Can people really control themselves?
- Answering Vern's challenging question as to whether her father would feel justified killing her if she had been born small, her father replies, "A little girl is one thing, a pig is another." Do you agree? If so, what most distinguishes the two?
- Lyric: "Together we are better than we used to be..." Many times we feel that doing things 'together' is better than doing things alone... certainly this is not true for all activities... but for the activities that do in fact seem better together, why is it so?
- Lyric: "I used to think the sum of one and one was two, but we and up to more, me and you..." Refer to the Wikipedia article on emergence... what do you find yourself focusing on most in life: 'simple entities' or 'emergent properties' ?
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