MotW: The Giver

You know I'm not a fan of Jeff Bridges, but for those of us that don't ever read fiction other than the classics, these movies even if badly made feel great because of those cool stories they share.

I imagine people that actually read the books are spoiled with better narrative, but for those of us that don't engage in such activities, a movie like this is good enough to enjoy that kind of thought provoking storytelling.

After a while of listening to these kind of stories, we can easily say they no longer impress because it is just more of the same, basically a different way to say a similar concept or idea.

However that's not entirely true because when it comes to morality there are so many factors at play, that what we are really saying is that we don't care anymore, or that we don't want to put more effort into it.

We didn't really go through to those concepts and ideas, we never really challenged them, and we never really had any congruent conclusions, but because we have engaged in those conversations one way or another, it feels that we did, and that's why we say those things as an excuse to dwell on making sense of what the perfect utopia would be, and if it would really exist.

It is always tempting to lie to ourselves and say that emotions don't have a meaning, that they don't have real value, and whatever they are saying is just make believe a chemical reaction of some sort. We only see the symptoms, not the causes like any doctor nowadays.

We tend to idealize our ability to justify or rationalize our creeds, that they also don't hold value because they are also made up, but we never stop to contemplate the idea that maybe we are wrong there too.

Emotions, beliefs, creeds of morality, and ideals of life may actually be more valuable than we give them credit for, they may actually respond to a higher call we have yet to understand, and this is why we may reconsider our stiff positions of thinking we know enough, when we really don't.

There is a value in humility we as a human race can't afford to dismiss, and that may actually be the difference between evolving as a society, as a culture, as species, or find ourselves in a vicious circle of making the same mistakes that the human ego provokes in the way we communicate with each other while we are here, in whatever dimension of awareness this plane of existence we live is.

To me the biggest treat as humans is to undermine the potential to solve collective problems, and undermine our actual intellectual capabilities that we yet have to comprehend.

Personally I feel the biggest difference is that just like the big bang is believed to come from nothing, our creativity does as well, which is something artificial intelligence will never be able to achieve, and that's what makes us special, and the reason why a little faith in our species is not misplaced, but actually justified, and the proper way to confront whatever challenges come our way as species.