Comments on: Sexualizing the City – Glorifying and Epitomizing Shallowness http://www.davideigen.com/2008/05/30/sexualizing-the-city-glorifying-and-epitomizing-shallowness/ "to love and be loved — and finally to become whole.” Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dr. David Eigen http://www.davideigen.com/2008/05/30/sexualizing-the-city-glorifying-and-epitomizing-shallowness/comment-page-1/#comment-274 Dr. David Eigen Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:20:36 +0000 http://www.davideigen.com/?p=270#comment-274 My dear Doug, Thank you so much for your comment. I remember Siddhartha well, and am concerned that in my passion you missed my meaning. I consider this movie to be fodder for the grist mill of polarization, that is to say, it reinforces the polarizing views. I am a supporter of loving partnerships and mutual respect. This movie and the show that spawned it absolutely does not do this. It demonstrates the masculinization of women, not the empowerment of the feminine. What I was passionately "ranting" about is my objection to the objectification of men. This is adding fuel to the fire of the Battle of the sexes. I know you don't support this. It truly a reversal of thought, the opposite of the patriarchal beliefs, but not a positive move. It is an eye for an eye thinking, and this would leave the whole world blind. Thanks again for the comment. My dear Doug,
Thank you so much for your comment. I remember Siddhartha well, and am concerned that in my passion you missed my meaning. I consider this movie to be fodder for the grist mill of polarization, that is to say, it reinforces the polarizing views. I am a supporter of loving partnerships and mutual respect. This movie and the show that spawned it absolutely does not do this. It demonstrates the masculinization of women, not the empowerment of the feminine. What I was passionately “ranting” about is my objection to the objectification of men. This is adding fuel to the fire of the Battle of the sexes. I know you don’t support this. It truly a reversal of thought, the opposite of the patriarchal beliefs, but not a positive move. It is an eye for an eye thinking, and this would leave the whole world blind.
Thanks again for the comment.

]]> By: Doug Knowlton http://www.davideigen.com/2008/05/30/sexualizing-the-city-glorifying-and-epitomizing-shallowness/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Doug Knowlton Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:10:41 +0000 http://www.davideigen.com/?p=270#comment-273 My friend, your response to this film concerns me. Have I seen the film. No. Is it likely? No, at least not until it's released so I can view it at home. Then again, I suspect you haven't seen it either. Since this isn't a review, then, can we say, rant? You remember this one don't you . . . . "Siddhartha was thus loved by everyone. He was a source of joy for everybody, he was a delight for them all. But he, Siddhartha, was not a source of joy for himself, he found no delight in himself." . . . . Later he converses with himself "How deaf and stupid have I been!" he thought, walking swiftly along. "When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning, he will not scorn the symbols and letters and call them deceptions, coincidence, and worthless hull, but he will read them, he will study and love them, letter by letter. But I, who wanted to read the book of the world and the book of my own being, I have, for the sake of a meaning I had anticipated before I read, scorned the symbols and letters, I called the visible world a deception, called my eyes and my tongue coincidental and worthless forms without substance. No, this is over, I have awakened, I have indeed awakened and have not been born before this very day." It concerns me that the above you've written appears to be a signal of growth in a more polarized direction. Is this true? My friend, your response to this film concerns me.

Have I seen the film. No. Is it likely? No, at least not until it’s released so I can view it at home.

Then again, I suspect you haven’t seen it either. Since this isn’t a review, then, can we say, rant?

You remember this one don’t you

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“Siddhartha was thus loved by everyone. He was a source of joy for everybody, he was a delight for them all.

But he, Siddhartha, was not a source of joy for himself, he found no delight in himself.”

. . . .

Later he converses with himself “How deaf and stupid have I been!” he thought, walking swiftly along. “When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning, he will not scorn the symbols and letters and call them deceptions, coincidence, and worthless hull, but he will read them, he will study and love them, letter by letter. But I, who wanted to read the book of the world and the book of my own being, I have, for the sake of a meaning I had anticipated before I read, scorned the symbols and letters, I called the visible world a deception, called my eyes and my tongue coincidental and worthless forms without substance. No, this is over, I have awakened, I have indeed awakened and have not been born before this very day.”

It concerns me that the above you’ve written appears to be a signal of growth in a more polarized direction. Is this true?

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