You make some very good points. I'm glad Cat directed me over here to read your essay. I should have come just because you were all respondy with me, of course, but I might have missed this one...so, go Cat!
Meanwhile, nothing much to add. I was pretty upset that people were calling for a lynching...I didn't know about actual death threats posted...jeepers. As you know, I have a lot of issues with the plotting and pacing of CoE...but I still would agree that my primary issues are philosophical ones, like yours. I am just not able to see the world in terms as completely hopeless as RTD is putting forward in JE and in CoE.
You do, I think, correctly identify what he is saying...which is that there is no love or contentment possible in a world as ugly as ours...and that the price of heroism is an empty life. Sad and also, imltho, absolutely untrue. The fact is in our daily lives...most people are content, most of the time. Tragedy, passion and pain strike us all...but to dwell on it for eternity...punishing yourself for wanting something to relieve your endless circle of life...that seems needlessly melodramatic.
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Date: 2009-07-19 06:56 am (UTC)Meanwhile, nothing much to add. I was pretty upset that people were calling for a lynching...I didn't know about actual death threats posted...jeepers. As you know, I have a lot of issues with the plotting and pacing of CoE...but I still would agree that my primary issues are philosophical ones, like yours. I am just not able to see the world in terms as completely hopeless as RTD is putting forward in JE and in CoE.
You do, I think, correctly identify what he is saying...which is that there is no love or contentment possible in a world as ugly as ours...and that the price of heroism is an empty life. Sad and also, imltho, absolutely untrue. The fact is in our daily lives...most people are content, most of the time. Tragedy, passion and pain strike us all...but to dwell on it for eternity...punishing yourself for wanting something to relieve your endless circle of life...that seems needlessly melodramatic.
Rae