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Does the modern world make you feel 'bereft' of basic spiritualism?
Have we become robots?
Sounds like a cliched omen, but sometimes you get the eerie feeling...that's it's all true.
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You can log onto the Internet and find mail-order-bride registries with optimistic women from around the world seeking residence-permits with American husbands so they can pursue the American Dream. This is sort of a fairy-tale in the modern world.
You have to wonder if all our modern era activities such as email, NASDAQ, CNN, etc., are making us jaded and cynical about 'everyday magic' (or even miracles).
An antique-collector in America might offer you terrific relics from yesteryear such as silver miniature model train-sets symbolizing the 'magic' of transit and traffic from the Old West. These 'toys' remind us of times when the imagination was less...commercial.
Of course, toys these days are much more sophisticated, but has our imagination become much more...robotic?
Kids these days love graphic video-games and toy guns. You have to wonder if what they're learning from us adults is that the 'real world' is full of danger and conspiracy (rather than magic and comedy!).
The mermaid is an age-old cryptic sea-creature, said to be beautiful, rumored to be sighted by many wishful seafaring people claiming that fatigue on boats made them daydream about 'incredible humanoid sea-dwellers' (mermaids). We've dismissed such 'tales' as the stuff of children, but in the process, did we lose our sense of Christian mysticism?
Hans Christian Andersen immortalized the mermaid with his iconic and legendary tale The Little Mermaid which is really a truly tragic-love story but nevertheless nicely-captures our basic imaginative fascination with the possibility that 'beautiful human-like creatures' exist somewhere on this planet, seeking to perhaps make contact with humanity and thereby offer us some strange and miraculous dose of optimism. What do you think?
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Have we become robots?
Sounds like a cliched omen, but sometimes you get the eerie feeling...that's it's all true.
====
You can log onto the Internet and find mail-order-bride registries with optimistic women from around the world seeking residence-permits with American husbands so they can pursue the American Dream. This is sort of a fairy-tale in the modern world.
You have to wonder if all our modern era activities such as email, NASDAQ, CNN, etc., are making us jaded and cynical about 'everyday magic' (or even miracles).
An antique-collector in America might offer you terrific relics from yesteryear such as silver miniature model train-sets symbolizing the 'magic' of transit and traffic from the Old West. These 'toys' remind us of times when the imagination was less...commercial.
Of course, toys these days are much more sophisticated, but has our imagination become much more...robotic?
Kids these days love graphic video-games and toy guns. You have to wonder if what they're learning from us adults is that the 'real world' is full of danger and conspiracy (rather than magic and comedy!).
The mermaid is an age-old cryptic sea-creature, said to be beautiful, rumored to be sighted by many wishful seafaring people claiming that fatigue on boats made them daydream about 'incredible humanoid sea-dwellers' (mermaids). We've dismissed such 'tales' as the stuff of children, but in the process, did we lose our sense of Christian mysticism?
Hans Christian Andersen immortalized the mermaid with his iconic and legendary tale The Little Mermaid which is really a truly tragic-love story but nevertheless nicely-captures our basic imaginative fascination with the possibility that 'beautiful human-like creatures' exist somewhere on this planet, seeking to perhaps make contact with humanity and thereby offer us some strange and miraculous dose of optimism. What do you think?
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