I really wanted to like the movie "Yesterday". It had potential, and it's still an interesting discussion to have regarding intrinsic satisfaction vs external reward. The movie that shows this better in my opinion is "The School of Rock" (2003):
I will have to read these books. The talk of grisly executions reminds me of the famous "napalm girl" by Nick Ut (Kim Phuc survived, of course). I was also reminded of Jordan Peterson's bit about whether a stump is a chair.
Th whole concept of "hard to unsee" is fascinating to me. No matter how much we know something is NOT something else, we keep seeing the thing that it is not. No wonder art historians find it difficult to reject the cryptomorphic explanations for pictures.
I really wanted to like the movie "Yesterday". It had potential, and it's still an interesting discussion to have regarding intrinsic satisfaction vs external reward. The movie that shows this better in my opinion is "The School of Rock" (2003):
https://moviewise.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/the-school-of-rock/
Another good one on a similar theme is "Mr. Holland's Opus".
Yes! Great point.
I will have to read these books. The talk of grisly executions reminds me of the famous "napalm girl" by Nick Ut (Kim Phuc survived, of course). I was also reminded of Jordan Peterson's bit about whether a stump is a chair.
The Vietnam War seems to have spawned an unusually high number of such images - here are two more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_L%C3%A9m and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%ADch_Qu%E1%BA%A3ng_%C4%90%E1%BB%A9c
Th whole concept of "hard to unsee" is fascinating to me. No matter how much we know something is NOT something else, we keep seeing the thing that it is not. No wonder art historians find it difficult to reject the cryptomorphic explanations for pictures.