sábado, 8 de noviembre de 2014

About Hamlet, the antic disposition, God and stuff.


To be or not to be. To be, and be, and being someone observed.


Looks like Hamlet has said it all.

Let’s say you believe in God because “something” must’ve originated the Big Bang. But then, what created God? Done, we just killed Him with the same reasoning that gave him life. Let’s say then that He has no beginning or end. He just revived!.

Assuming his constant and endless and mathematically possible “existence” . Does it matter? How is this related to Hamlet?

Without a doubt, this “constant” God will affect the equation, so it does change things. How? Antic disposition. 

Shakespeare said it already, we live in a stage. And as the writer needs his reader, we need spectators to our super important life. That’s when God appears. Almighty, powerful, good and full of… morals
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Then all is reduced to our –performance- “acting”, and who’s watching. Today, we have Facebook, Twitter, or whatev platform to satisfy our need of making sense –maybe unconsciously- of our existence, so maybe that's why the pulento has been left aside.

 What a senseless life. But again, Hamlet knew best.

“Where words have effects that cannot be controlled, where they are imitated or enacted independently of the agent’s will, then they explicitly point to the wound, the uncontrollable effects of mimesis. At this very point, as Hamlet will note –in Platonic terms- the “body of contraction” (contraction equals the “contract” that binds words to things) has its “soul plucked from it” to “appear a rhapsody or words” (III, iv, 321). Mere words (with their own power) because not mere (controllable and knowable) ideas.”(During, 1992, p210)

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  2. I strongly agree with what you just posted, Yorka. I’ve always thought that everybody is watching you: your family, friends, neighbors, and people on the street. They all expect you to act the way you always do and also fulfill your role in society. What a pressure! I would like people not to be concern about what you do or what you don’t. We’d be happier, wouldn’t we?
    Social networking sites and apps have increased this feeling of being observed by someone else. Here we post, tweet, or IM our life out! Here, we show people we know our script and post our soliloquies on Facebook to get everybody’s approval.
    Thanks God Hamlet did not have a Facebook page. “What’s on your mind” would have asked Facebook and Hamlet would have collapsed and written all his soliloquies on Zuckerberg’s social networking website.

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  3. I also agree with what you have just posted Yorka, but up to a point in the sense that we might are being observed by the people that surround us, but it depends on us how we react to that "pressure." Because if we look at how Hamlet reacted and lived with that pressure, we can see that he didn't do it very well.
    I think that everything is in our minds and that we choose how to live with those thoughts, roles, boundaries, and many other things that we have created.
    The pressure will always exist in our mind, we have to lear how to live with it.
    And finally we have to pay attention to our creations because those creations will probably control us in the future.

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  5. Thanks for your comments, and yes, Oscar, Hamlet's facebook would be something funny (or really depressing) to read! But, contrary to what you say, I think nobody is watching us, our lives are not important and we have the illusion that they are, just to cope with the stupidity of life itself :C
    Eduardo, yup i totally agree, the pressure has the same measure as our morals -or our God-. And our creations... yeah little monsters they are (as Victor Frankenstein's one) I wonder if God thinks the same... damn humans... I shouldn't have created them -.-

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