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Probably going to watch Avatar: The Last Airbender—a Nickelodeon kids show—a second time in full. It is loaded with alchemy symbolism. Behind the simple kid-friendly plot of each episode are rich patterns that can be written about and reflected on. It’s taking serious relationships in the psyche and rendering them through archetypal characters. I
... See moreThe 2nd half of Dune shows Paul following kairos. He’s so in the moment, that he’s able to see all possible future stemming from his actions. It causes him to behave in erratic ways and accumulate power. Reminds me of that Rick and Morty episode where Morty gets the time crystals.
The 7 Tiers of consciousness in Dune:
Level 1s (the worms)
Level 2s (tribe dynamics)
Level 3s (fundamentalists in the south)
Level 4s (all about Dust extraction/politics; call T5 the rats)
Level 5s (against typical order, anti-voodoo, anti-power, one with the T1 Earth)
Level 6s (Dust: visions, partial flashes of the future)
Level 7s (post-worm trip, see
Lanthimos went to a film school in Athens that is highly influenced by Ancient Greek composition principles (especially Aristotle). It’s interesting to consider how an ancient culture can into something timeless/sacred but then lose it. Even though it can go dormant, it’s so potent that any culture who revives it goes through a period of rebloom /
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