Recently watched the movie, Interstellar. I’m a little behind on my movie watching, and this movie was made in 2014. if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it! In the movie, the protagonist goes on a dangerous intergalactic mission all because he has been made to believe it is the only way to save humans on earth, when in reality, Nasa who sent him on the mission believed the whole time that humans on earth couldn’t be saved and their intent all along was to have him complete mission B, which was to start a new colony on a viable planet. They keep the truth hidden from him because they believed his love for his children would prevent him from keeping humanity from becoming extinct. In the end, he discovered the truth, and was able to assist in saving humans on earth, as well as building a new colony in space. This movie raises so many questions.
If you watched this movie, I would like to ask you:
Do you believe Michael Caines characters acts were heroic or villainous?
Is humanity worth saving? Or are we just specks in the cosmos who think ourselves much more important than we actually are?
Do our base emotions prevent us from reaching our true potential?
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5 responses to “Are the base emotions of humans our fatal flaw or our greatest attribute?”
I’ll have to find time for the movie.
But I appreciate your giving a summary to mull over!
From my studies so far I would initially suggest that our base emotions are both a great asset AND a potentially fatal flaw.
The main difference, is in how we choose to use them/be used by them. (A common theme in my posts over the years).
It’s like asking if a chainsaw is a boon or a bane. It totally depends upon how one chooses to use it. We are the “moral agency” capable of dividing between the process Creative and the process Destructive in this moment.
I’ve watched the movie several times, and the one take away that stands out most prominent to me is “Intelligent Design”, where the main character is trapped if you will in the library. He is between time present, past, and future, and communicates with his daughter by knocking the wrist watch off of the shelf…but only after surviving passage through a black hole.
That can only happen in a universe designed by a Divine Intelligence.
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I could never get through that movie without falling asleep, as it jumped from one time to another — in space and on Earth. I got that time runs slower in space, however, that abyss of the worm hole and being behind the bookshelves just got me lost and I fell asleep.
I haven’t seen the movie, so I’m trying to avoid reading most of the Spoilerish content people are posting about it.
The subject makes me think of the theories that say insanity is a trait in humans that have helped us to evolve into creatures that can reshape our surroundings more than any other planet-Earth-bound species.
I think humans are specks in the cosmos who think we’re more important than we are, but we’re worth saving just like the bees, even though many humans are poisoning them.