[MD] The Giant

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Andy goldsworthy

rivers and tides

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBcdL8uO71E&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9TyHzP-8b8&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTEB3bEGprY&NR=1


 


----- Original Message ----
From: Steven Peterson <peterson.steve at gmail.com>
To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 9, 2009 9:59:54 AM
Subject: [MD] The Giant

Hi All,

Have you seen the movie Baraka? It is a nonverbal film that claims to
be about man's realtionship to the eternal. One scene gives a
startling view of the Giant as described by Pirsig. You can hear it
breathe by the end.

The clip can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watchv=6mUitg6oKhc&feature=related

Best,
Steve


Lila:
"It was spooky how it all worked with an intelligence of its own that
was way beyond the intelligence of any person.  He would never know
how to fix one of these systems of wire and tubes down below the
ground that ran it all.  Yet there was someone who did. And there was
a system for finding that person if he was needed, and a system for
finding that system that would find him.  The cohesive force that held
all these systems together: that was the Giant. When he was young
Phædrus used to think about cows and pigs and chickens and how they
never knew that the nice farmer who provided food and shelter was
doing so only so that he could sell them to be killed and eaten.  They
would "oink," or "cluck," and he would come with food, so they
probably thought he was some sort of servant. He also used to wonder
if there was a higher farmer that did the same thing to people, a
different kind of organism that they saw every day and thought of as
beneficial, providing food and shelter and protection from enemies,
but an organism that secretly was raising these people for its own
sustenance, feeding upon them and using their accumulated energy for
its own independent purposes.  Later he saw there was: this Giant.
People look upon the social patterns of the Giant in the same way cows
and horses look upon a farmer; different from themselves,
incomprehensible, but benevolent and appealing.  Yet the social
pattern of the city devours their lives for its own purposes just as
surely as farmers devour the flesh of farm animals.  A higher organism
is feeding upon a lower one and accomplishing more by doing so than
the lower organism can accomplish alone."
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