Thank you, Francisco! That's probably what it was. Evolutionary Psychology of Henri Laborit, not Sociobiology of E.O. Wilson. Not dissimilar projects though, it would seem.
> On May 5, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Francisco Torres <fjtorre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Could be the American Uncle by Resnais. Which if I recall well takes a > rather conflicting and comple view of its subject. But then he was > French... ;) > > > ''Who decides? Who decides who decides?'' Reminds me of the final > scene of 3 days of the Condor. > > The only movie about epidemics I like is The Andromeda Strain. The > third act reveal is quite a shock even after almost 50 years. In one > brief scene it manages to say so much ! but that was the 70s, SF > movies were very HEAVY. Take Rollerball, for example. Today it looks > like a reality show or the evening news. Oh well. This are sure some > messed up times I never thought I would live through some entropic > thing like this. Nuclear war? Yes. Mad Max? Yes. But this slow motion > Ballard catastrophe? No way. > So back to the ancients for advice- > ''The Way of the Samurai is found in death. Meditation on inevitable > death should be performed daily. Every day when one's body and mind > are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, > rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being > thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, > being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from > thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the > death of one's master. And every day without fail one should consider > himself as dead. This is the substance of the way of the samurai''. > Yamamoto Tsunetomo, > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
