Gus and the TV: inspirational

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The best special of all time (besides gus and the tv special :P)

important video. new world incoming. 🚢

"where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty."

a few must-watch hidden gems:

1. The Thief and the Cobbler (1992, dir. Richard Williams)

An unfinished masterpiece of animation. 31 years in the making from the animation director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).

2. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989, dir. Shinya Tsukomoto)

Early mind-bending Japanese cyberpunk/body horror. According to Wikipedia, it's "considered to be one of the greatest Japanese films of all time." I'd have to agree.

3. My Breakfast With Blassie (1983 dir. Linda Lautrec, Johnny Legend, Mark Shepard)

Advanced (meta)comedy from the master of cringe-core/performance art Andy Kaufman at the peak of his powers. Will blow the minds of those on its wavelength.

We perceive reality as a story—a hierarchical network of symbols based on their relevance to human perception. For example, an objective cup doesn't exist, as it can be broken down and defined in infinite ways. So the cup we perceive only exists symbolically. Perception of the cup presupposes an ethic to distinguish a "good" cup from a "bad" cup, based on how well it embodies its symbolic purpose as a "cup" (telos). This ethic scales up and down the pattern of reality. The Bible is a meta-story, as it is a container of sub-stories, contextualizing and orienting phenomena to create meaning. Symbolic perception is intuitive because it's how we identify phenomena by default, which is why it's difficult to articulate the pattern except through stories—the default lens through which we live our lives.