David Lynch and HP Lovercraft, more education

Pretty much the same, right?

Eraserhead is about sexual anxiety, and so are Lovecraft's stories. They are the very nerve of fandom, a kind of fandom that is GenX specific as Rock and Roll and Concerts were Boomer specific.

But this fandom thing is hothouse of sexual neurosis that can be examined in its many growths.

As in the certain way with those who are Lovecraft fans. I am not one of them, but, I did enjoy the books anyway, just...not that big a fan.
The character going mad is always a cheap shot.
But, in that respect their pulp, though elevated by contemporaries Hammett and Chandler, perhaps slightly superceded by Howard...the split away from the Realist vs. Christian morality tale and a bit atavistic, but as printable material much easier to throw at a public learning just enough, while not working, to never reading past early education.

That R+R fandom was in music in the 60's. Some TV, not really novels, or books, really...the Baby Boomer authors are visible in the brain drain of the population into digital technology, and away from writing.

Some are good, I guess. King, is Rowling? LeGuin, is Heinlein really that good a writer? Gibson...though, its best pressure, at the time of the sales, were about the new digital brain drain...and the increased atavism into private fandom.

The big public spectacle of the Baby Boomer, this is gone. It was big. I'd say they were more hysterical and violent parties, while GenX there was more passing out, rape, and drug addiction.
Privation instead of atavism, individual narcissism instead of public imperialism.
Tyranny of the psyche after tyranny by and of the market.
Hordes of addicts like this.

Who knows how the probably more public and clearer thinking Generation the digital might be?
Mere embers of the cold war, not so held back really. And then...this technology that moves everything so far forward so fast. Probably nobody in Gen X is going to make it to SEO after 2040!

Clearer thinking because it really has been a long slow chill, away from War and Imperialism and Colonialism and Industrial Crime, to now, where...its far enough in the past, not of it rooted in the Generation, and they dont have to think in fear.

Lovecraft and Lynch both interpret the human psyche as fear, but not as fear that is embodied in types and terms. Lovecraft is more stagey and symbolic, but even the symbolism as HR Giger fits both, the psychic dislocation, and that fear, Lynch achieves with less literate trappings, no unpronouncable monsters (well, really, they are pretty cool to pronounce), but unprouncable places and things.

The fracturing of time is perhaps better evoked in Lynch, and Lynch is able to get the timing...many of the Baby Boomer artists did such original, unconventional and future oriented things, but I think Lynch really was the most feeling of them.
Antonioni, and the fractured narrative, is not only in the service of madness, but mystery too.
So, the fanboyism cant handle the maturity of the feeling without having something to hang a category or term, and relieve the pressure through such prejudice.
As we all have done Earthwise, as a simple psychic habit, reducing other by terms, types, tropes.

The Lovecraftian tropes were never classifiable really. The broken reality was splits in space and time, but that is limited in the processes of the novel, wherein, in the movie, space can be explored more vastly in the moment...though the repitition, and disconnection is not a pulp habit, the story's of Lovecraft are not really plot interesting...its the monster and distortions and risk of psychic destruction.
While Lynch invokes psychic destruction through this, sometimes rude disregard for the audience."

This rude disregard is a modern trope, not Jazz, but the Pynchon, Ulysesses, stream of consciousness and "formal experiments", in the abstract, also part of the Abstracted Modern...the Broadway Boogie Woogie and Pollocks.

The broken reality was a necesarry norm for the Baby Boomers, they were a political generation interested in escaping from MAD, and presidents assasinated from behind the scenes.

So, this breakage is popular with them...Lovecraft into obscurity as his American people became very muscular and war oriented.

The breakage was captured in a more virtuosity in PK Dick, but the tone, the fearful tone, of Lynch, is significant, while the fearful tone in PK Dick is somewhat mollified, or muted, like Stephan King.

After all the very public violence of slasher movies, the movies became more gore oriented, the superheated catagories increasing and increasing, until the terms combined no longer shock.

This happens to a public, though, it might happen in private circles in smaller ways, say, starting with the Decadents of the 1890's.

But as that broken reality genre...not grunge, but like grunge in that the character are all destabilized, and alienated from the system.

That is probably a ending sentence now.

Where will the fear come from, if the criminal are now under a new transparency?

Fear can limit too much freedom.

But there is this other freedom, that should not be taken away, and this new freedom is feelable by them.
It can be taken away from them, but the old methods wont work, because they are industrial theater.

That digital technology infuses all walks of all life on earth, and we continue as a Corportocracy to enlarge that faster than anyone else while already having the lead...means we can shut down or get data on what really happened.
So old industrial trickery, the ratlines perhaps, can be revealed.

I am guessing the Sims will have a History Sims game, where, you can pick an Avatar to be in a world which is based on another culture, time, and place, most importantly, involving another language.
This kind of software would make it much easier to teach a language, but, it could be played in translated mode and still be highly educational.



OH ITS DYSTOPIC!

We can send robots in, to negotiate situations, video tape, before any human being gets involved.
The police do not have to interact with violence, if, just a little bit of drone technology can arrive on the scene before they do.
Other than perhaps all the cameras on all the street corners...this is not unlike, or really inferior to Soviet Russia with a soldier on every corner.
Inspires safety, but in a way its coercive, fear inducing.

But in general, the feeling of fear is based on an old sixties meme, which the cops are bullies of the young.

Well, they are!

But just bullies. However, cops, tough minded though they may be, sometimes lose their cool, and because they are in such dangerous moments, and under that pressure, the survellience works against them.
Then, corruption is exposed, in fair diciplining, but the whole thing could have been avoided, the death, the accident, the flaw, the political fodder, the hardening of hearts, the skew on truth....
all that, with a drone arriving first, which can interact by asking questions, just informing them they are under police direct survellience.

The cop can wait until this person detects a more serious problem.

They can be provocative if the perpertrator...the suspect, the innocent before guilty, seems to fit a scenario, and, in provoking, they might get reveal the hair trigger.
So a drone gets shot. What, are they like 1,000 dollars?

Not so good as a eventual military interface because the tech is over seas.

As a safety device the cop should be nearby, just waiting. There is a moment where the drone engages, interacts, makes itself known...BLAM

Shot down, but the cop had got close enough to hear the gunshot and had a video link. That calls in more cops.
Where are they? That cop can tell, but then uses a speaker, while inside a bullet proof car. The car does not have to move much...its not a pursuit vehicle...the people in the area, all lit up and each folllowed by a light, line up at the side of the car to scan their ids through an external scanning device.
This is also a metal detector. Furthermore, the drone is overhead.

A single helicopter pilot can probably police an area with multiple drone links. Gets a beep on a map and sends that drone to the location.
The ground car, then moves to the location. Its not hard to park these otherwise workstations, though, I think these vehicles should enable the police to be standing. Like a UPS truck.

The investigator then gets online, uses a speaker on the drone (and camera), to talk to the actors
"...no weapons on the drone. But, any illegal action witness or even implicit, will result in arrest."
"Accusations are not enough to initiate an arrest, but a patrol car is nearby to investigate claims of criminality by a witness."
It'll have lights...but like five...each that can face track.

It can have a methodology to hover over rooftops or in trees, or in places where it is shot down, the shooter will have a time problem getting to the device.
The tracking is very difficult to break...so, as the shooter might even get away with it, the tracker locates it on the map.

Or, they shoot it down, nullify the tracker with a big magnet, carry it off...sell it on ebay to Pirates.
Yeah, thats going to happen but probably not often, and its not like this drone tech can be bought online now anyway!

People in prison might actually be good at doing this.

TIME DILATION

Now, as Eraserhead as essentially Lovecraftian, the time distortions, the weird doubling and fakery, the descent into mental illness, the fracturing of consciousness by shock, the personal disabling subjectivity of it all...the tone of the suffering is very similar.

What symbolism replaces the vast array of these idols since antiquity? The Avatar. That is the self idol, and, it manifests what has been a personal, private, impossible to reveal shame of self exception.

What would Achilles do with an Avatar? Say, he was in prison where he should be.

What we do in some way, some self-exhaltation.

So there are no more idols really. As they were the subjective personal connection, now they have so perfectly fit the subjective connection we seek with ourselves, shamefully, as better than or some other exception...wherien, there we get to label!

All the downfall of it, so obvious to older people, yet, this movement forward being simulation and a great deal of exhaust in playing a game over and over and over again.

If instead this was public pressure, the computer game would not be a habit at home overplayed to isolation, but engaged at simulation schools, or schools engaging in simulation...scientific, moral, or otherwise...these simulations then exhausting the kids interest in the thing...and so they come home and family oriented activities, which emerge into neighborhood kid or other social groups activities.

The ordering around an industrial, Christian or Judaic or Muslim schedule, wherein, there is a weekend...is probably not the best format these days.

Scheduling out Sunday, yes.

But the time off idea, from what? Pressure to work? Work for what?
Your own self advancement. Your own sense of superiority.
No.
The advancement of others.
To what end?
Graduation, education.

Grades, learning...these are experienced in games. They are absorbed more readily in games.
Memorization is sharper in a game. Competition could be cooperative, teaching teamwork.
Paperwork? This seems so old?

Meanwhile, the Green ideal is promoted, and, they witness the school using so much paper.
While at home, very little paper is used.

The TV will absolutely decrease as passive entertainment. Whatever approximation of passive will be instead focused precisely on what questions the view may have about a learning experience of a interaction or, probably more often engaged by choice, a game.

Math and writing embedded into the game.

Many games will not have any math or writing or speaking, but just quiet puzzling thought. These might then be more often the reading time.
How much time to let a student read?

Strict controls over that time is inhibiting...its doing the opposite of enabling an enthusiasm for reading by making it a deep involvement of thought, to be taken away regardless of feeling.

Pay attention, I know, is part of the teaching. Following directions, getting along with others, using time wisely, yes.

However, the subject read is then dropped, or, the teacher is required to discuss it. Except, some students did not read it after that first hour last monday.
Second, not that many found it as interesting. They read this book!

The teacher cannot discuss sixteen books at one time. However, a video of book reading, which has a narrative, might be attached to a digital book.

How long are these children's books going to last? Another 100 years?
No, they will disintegrate. They are remedial.

Except, they are printing and inking and transport costs that are not recouped because the text and video is the norm at home on the computer, and this wonky paper book, sure, it smells, and has tactile qualities...
...yeah, I got over that at about 4.

Used book stores will disintegrate. I mean, by 2080...no bookstores. No used bookstores. Very few visits to the library.

Because the books will have video commentary, and whatever other rich media that is to be installed into the text, as it is scanned and what, rasterized, to be hypertexted.

Yes, hypertexted children's media. They love a explainer video to a puzzle, or to a book that raises feelings, like in my generation the Bible or Where the Wild Things Are, or, really, any book.

Tarzan might have link to each video that depicts that scene, and, a map how how all the Tarzan media connects, and does not connect to the entire series.

Its not the hypertext, its the curiosity left to explore and find out, not the authoritarian dictation of what one should know.

The standards done requires such forced transparency. Nor do they have to be bound to a larger image of adequecy, nor do they have to be bound to a certain age.

All that will naturally sort itself out, under a wide array of constant engagement in computer monitored lessons, which may fulfill benchmarks, but whose benchmarks can be expanded to be instead of a single age related grade, but merely the guidance and forcing and pressure over elementary school age...
one student not finishing the requirement, that they are not told are requirement but obviously these overlays to Halo, and the frequency by which they keep coming up, and the discussions that the other Halo players have, impress upon me the important of fulfilling the overlays requirements, even though I have been avoided them every year, most of the time.

That range of attention is now longer narrowly applied to work without regard for the delicate flower that you are, but instead, the child finds peer groups, and they all participate in varying ranges of subjective, avatar like measurements that require some effort of will to learn and practice.

Though, it may mean that some students gravitate to Music, and learn music at the exclusion of all else, yet, are not really that good at music.

Or, upon sixth grade, some students to go this school (which is just a proximity and previously established networks...my kid gets into the networks that use math a lot...for instance), others go to that school...

the general, liberal arts picture of a well rounded elementary school student is lost, but the students try out things they might be talented in, and then study in greater detail following their own curiousity, and in so doing, are engaged with rich media that teaches them those peripheral things they would normally avoid, but are instead slowly introduced in particular way, such as Math for a Music student, or writing for writing music and lyrics....

Jocks, then also being engaged.

We would find the later networks not bogged down in the inferior students, but clustering around competitive groups, where before someone was always a loser, they are now in a generation of kids who find their own victorious slot.

Maybe some never do.

Not my problem. The point is the whole point of the rhetoric of the Baby Boomer reformers of school, the proliferation of Charter schools, all of this disintegrates.|

But this disintegration can be reintegration through game networks. And game networks can teach, without grating on time and attention in a forceful authoritarian squelching otherness.

Instead, the criminals are identified, the talents at hand to eye and analytic thought, while the math whizzes see their attention pay off in design...you know, its really friggin awesome.

The less fantastical students can work 3-d machines and make products. Make the avatars of their friends who their friend seems to enjoy playing fighting games, and the avatar is made into a 3-d object. The kid trades it for the cookies at lunchtime.

This is a far more powerful, far more effective unit for warfare even. Those who do not adjust their post industrial society to network affiliations, overlay of gaming, game design, and inclusion of mental health in Physical education and physical play in the yard...that people who do not practice this, will always be inferior.

This highly coordinated, massive programming to craft to remote powered, astronaut trained generation, will have done a lot of shot em up simulations. Gun training is going on now, in games.

But because games online are NON EDUCATION, when they could be, though, they do teach math incidentally.

Wedding literature, history, story, morality, to the avatar in the game....I just cannot believe no one though of this and even more so that its not a norm.

Oh, the boys can play the hunting and killing Team Fortress Ten games, but, these games halt and ask questions of morality. Sometimes.

The student can be tricked into killing someone...an avatar. The teacher's perhaps.

Why was the killing done? Were you fooled?

Why?

Simple overlay, no Christian moraliy or Judaic morality, although, whats wrong with referencing such stories, such morality? The Ten Commandments used to a be great movie to watch, for it had the ten commandments.

The ten commandments is still good teachings. But as it could be implied in the questions, and then presented along with other moral codes, OVER a few years, while playing games that violate these rules, this edifies, no doubt, BETTER than a lecture or a sermon.

Nope. We dont want that.