{"id":18,"date":"2007-04-02T21:58:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T04:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/2007\/04\/02\/why-fast-cheap-and-out-of-control\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T21:58:25","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T04:58:25","slug":"why-fast-cheap-and-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/2007\/04\/02\/why-fast-cheap-and-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been reading the blogs posted about FCnOC.\u00c2\u00a0 It almost seems like this film either solidifies the faith you have in Morris or shakes the foundation of what you enjoy in Morris films.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the more interesting thoughts brought up was that everyone in FCnOC was too<\/em> articulate.\u00c2\u00a0 The men in the film are professionals and have dedicated lifestyles.\u00c2\u00a0 People that have characteristically been in the Morris films we have seen thus far are unattractive and are almost unintelligible.\u00c2\u00a0 The thing is, we have learned to listen to what they’re saying and make sense of it.\u00c2\u00a0 In FCnOC we listen to professionals discuss their obsessions.\u00c2\u00a0 Have we gotten ourselves into a rut where we only find weird, ignorant people who ramble interesting?\u00c2\u00a0 Rodney Brooks created these robots to help understand life.\u00c2\u00a0 To make them more life-like, he has to program them that way.\u00c2\u00a0 He is playing God more than anyone else.\u00c2\u00a0 But what’s even creepier than that is he takes pride in the fact that machines will outlive humans.\u00c2\u00a0 They are our creation and our homage to life.<\/p>\n

So what exactly is fast, cheap, and out of control?\u00c2\u00a0 Life?\u00c2\u00a0 In the grand scheme of things, yes.\u00c2\u00a0 One generation of people survive for about 85 years and a new one comes in.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a tiny part of the billions of years the Earth has existed.\u00c2\u00a0 Cheap is a little more difficult to justify in a literal sense.\u00c2\u00a0 Out of control is obvious because we have very little control of what goes on around us.\u00c2\u00a0 At least, we feel we are in control but not nearly as much as we think.\u00c2\u00a0 This mindset relates to the idea of being your own God.\u00c2\u00a0 Controlling what goes on around you is an important part of life.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s difficult to be comfortable with the fact that you are being affected by your surroundings and not the other way around.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been reading the blogs posted about FCnOC.\u00c2\u00a0 It almost seems like this film either solidifies the faith you have in Morris or shakes the foundation of what you enjoy in Morris films.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the more interesting thoughts brought … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/itsthepunisher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}