[Frameworks] Quote of the Day

[Francisco Torres]

yeah, at least Resnais seemed to take it 50% straight, 50 percent as a
joke.... That movie sure felt like reading a comic book! He was into
comics, I missed him a lot. Sur made some of the greatest narrative
films ever.

2020-05-06 23:10 GMT-04:00, Robert Schaller <robert at ontosmedia.com>:
> Thank you, Francisco!  That's probably what it was.  Evolutionary Psychology
> of Henri Laborit, not Sociobiology of E.O. Wilson.  Not dissimilar projects
> though, it would seem.
>
>> On May 5, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Francisco Torres <fjtorrespr at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Could be the American Uncle by Resnais. Which if I recall well takes a
>> rather conflicting and comple view of its subject. But then he was
>> French... ;)
>>
>>
>> ''Who decides?  Who decides who decides?'' Reminds me of the final
>> scene of 3 days of the Condor.
>>
>> The only movie about epidemics I like is The Andromeda Strain. The
>> third act reveal is quite a shock even after almost 50 years. In one
>> brief scene it manages to say so much ! but that was the 70s, SF
>> movies were very HEAVY. Take Rollerball, for example. Today it looks
>> like a reality show or the evening news. Oh well. This are sure some
>> messed up times I never thought I would live through some entropic
>> thing like this. Nuclear war? Yes. Mad Max?  Yes. But this slow motion
>> Ballard catastrophe? No way.
>> So back to the ancients for advice-
>> ''The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable
>> death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind
>> are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows,
>> rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being
>> thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning,
>> being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from
>> thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the
>> death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider
>> himself as dead. This is the substance of the way of the samurai''.
>> Yamamoto Tsunetomo,
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