veil

Flipping through TV channels ran across two separate real life cop scenes, one law and order and then ...then Indiana Jones. All depicting people being taken in. The real life knocking you in the face with the real tragedy desperation and desire for freedom of the captee and the disgust/fear and effort of the policemen. Law and Order making a real attempt to approximate that and Indiana Jones where all was elegantly action.

 And that is the key word...elegance. Even Law and Order attempting to approximate real had the buffer of elegance. The desperation is not real the sweat is from lights and the dirt from a make up person..somehow comes through.

 I wonder in this age of TV and movies how much is hard to relate to because we expect life to have the veil of elegance..the buffer of staging to make everything more graceful.

 I think its a good thing. It may help prevent more mental poisoning than hinder true connection. Connection is innate to man. Will happen if we allow it at all. And the veil of elegance ..the buffer of staging helps keep us from connecting and attracting desperate and less productive worlds via the media.

Musing

Musing

modern terms

I have been struck lately, usually with a good deal of amusement, at the terms we now run into and use daily. Ever notice them?

When I wish to do something on many of the web pages I click a button that says "submit" grin...the funny thought thre is at all those dominant manly types doing hte same thing without thought.

 When I use a credit or debit card (which is almost every purchase) I am "accepted". Smiles..that is always uplifting to hear. We all want acceptance. But when the charge won't go through we are NEVER rejected...THE TRANSACTION is declined. A word with much more gentleness and connotations that are more temporary.

 I call and get put on "hold"...bringing back childhood memories of "you'll just have to hold it until the next gas station" but now, since so many companies have web pages we are offered the choice to hold it or to go to the web page and submit. Grin...who says business doesn't have the upper hand?

But all is not lost...when we start to feel too disempowered we can go buy something and once more be validated because we will be accepted. ;-)

Am keeping my eyes open for other amusing daily life terms with embedded concepts  that may be escaping us.

 

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