“Like a child at the cinema, we get caught up in the illusion.
“Like a child at the cinema, we get caught up in the illusion.
From this comes all of our vanity, ambition, and insecurity.
We fall in love with the illusions we have created and develop excessive pride in our appearance,
our possessions, and our accomplishments.
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse,
Creative licence means that creativity is given free rein and does not need to mirror the exact reality
on the ground but when "nationalists" authorities overseer the appropriateness of content deemed culturally appropriate,then it kills the content provider's free reign over the imagination.It prevents the arising of thought provoking issues and merely surrenders to the status quo of keeping the traditions
alive.But traditions need to evolve with the changing context and keep up with the times if it were to
survive the onslaught of modernity.
The Japanese would be struggling with that conundrum but the transformation is already underway in how anime has allowed the creativity to blossom and even be adopted as a global phenomenon by
the young all over the world.So to "ban" the viewing of "Hema,hema can you hear me sing" is a futile exercise if the movie is released online and the young should be astute enough to discern between fiction and fact. Or they aren't as they are captive to the soundbites and sensationalism of fake news.But still it's better to train a filter that is self critical than to set up a firewall that smacks of moral policing and
by whose standards are we to judge who has better morals as judge not so that ye be not judged.Unless its so violently or sexually explicit,then warning on parental guidance should be issued but to allow screening of shallow stereotypes of syrupy coma inducing happily ever after movies or hair raising horror
movies is to train the young to have an unrealistic expectation of Life that it is
entertaining and no more.No,movies should let us reflect on the flaws of our societies,rip aside the
hypocrisies behind the mask and an unexamined life is a life not
worth living.Even the Buddha exhorted come and see.
Do not believe just because someone said so. Kalama Sutta: The Buddha's Charter
of Free Inquiry."It is proper for you, Kalamas, to doubt, to be uncertain;uncertainty has
arisen in you about what is doubtful. Come, Kalamas. Do not go upon what has been acquired
by repeated hearing; nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor; nor upon what is in a scripture;
nor upon surmise; nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning; nor upon a bias towards
a notion that has been pondered over; nor upon another's seeming ability; nor upon the consideration,
Truth is in life. So take into account words of the wise, altho’ not passively —but, rather,
through constant questioning and personal testing to identify those truths which you are able to
demonstrate to yourself actually reduce your own stress or misery. If you thus find something of
value, effective in your own life, by all means, take it to heart …
Come … see for yourself …Ehipassiko!
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