"Like the study of science and art, accounts of historical events can be intrinsically fascinating. But they have a wider significance. I believe that people are better able to chart their life course and make life decisions when they know how others have dealt with pressures and dilemmas---historically, contemporaneously, and in works of art. And only equipped with such understanding can we participate knowledgeably in contemporary discussions (and decisions) about the culpability of various individuals and countries in the Second World War. Only with such understanding can we ponder the responsibilty of human beings everywhere to counter current efforts at genocide in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to bring the perpetrators to justice."
"...we humans are the kinds of animals who learn chiefly by observing others---what they value, what they spurn, how they conduct themselves from day to day, and especially, what they do when they believe that no one is looking."
----Howard Gardner, from The Disciplined Mind, published in 1999

Saturday, October 6, 2007

It's a Fine Line Between Love and Hate; or, DIY



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLCG5mNlxnI


4 comments:

Pelicano said...

I like that video, the ending especially. Why? I've changed I guess. I am reminded of some people of whom at my lowest point I requested help- just support, an ear. Denied; they backed off...rode away like those two girls. And since then, I see those relationships in a different light. They had in themselves also a tinge of Sado-masochism... and I'm not willing to bow and beg anymore. So they ended too. A sort of inevitable, massive "house-cleaning" I suppose. It was me who had to take that leap, by myself, trusting only half-believed words of The Concerned, and knowing deep down that it just can't go on like this... because I am dying...

neroli said...

I really like it as well.
It's always interesting to me how we can all interpret things differently---in the comments for this video, someone questioned why the ending left her bound, alone.
It makes *perfect* sense to me, for the reasons you mentioned, and for the fact that it all comes down to us to ensure our own survival.
But I'm preaching to the choir :)

Pelicano said...

Exactly. And I think she intended that exclusivity, and consequent inaccessibility and mysteriousness with a mass audience. I admire her integrity. What's really strange is that the girl who first exposed me to Tori just contacted me yesterday after a very long period of silence in our friendship.

neroli said...

*smiling*
Now I'm hearing that Louis Armstrong song in my head---you know the one, where you think to yourself, what a wonderful world :)