What would engage more people in creating a positive future?
Posted on Jul 16th, 2008
by
ItsWill
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for July 16, 2008:
My forethcoming Graphic Novel! hehe
I am driven to create a postive future after reading the ideals of At-One-ment (Ken Wilber, Paul Sheppard, Robert Goodwin, Amit Gotswami, Eckart Tolle). I am writing a narration that takes these discussions out of their lecture-esque format and turns the ideals into entertainment...something the emerging image-focused generation can enjoy reading.
I thoroughly believe the rampant apathy in people today is due to what Baudrillard defines as information vs. communication. Information includes an image, a 30 second news loop, a bitmap or jpg, a picture. Information includes statistics and images that prove a point, but without the dialogue that allows a person to emotionally connect with it. Communication is a transfer of information that also allows a certain "space" for a recipient to make it matter personally, thereby emotionally connecting with it.
Reading is communication, because the dialectic space occurs in a reader's imagination. In the age of HDTV, high-speed internet (allowing more and more flash videos), cable and video games, the "people" who we are trying to awaken have come to expect a cool action packed video to demonstrate how a "positive future" can emerge. WIthout the entertainment value, it's easier to change the channel and get back to their comfortable stupor.
The mental processes that began in me when I first read "The Celestine Prophesy" pointed towards what I was looking for. It was a mystery/thriller with some renosance, much like Angels & Demons, which I read at about the same time.
A goal I have set for myself is to write the storyline for a graphic novel (because the market is HUGE and GROWING) with a first-person-plural narration (like Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily") stating "WE did...." everything from the Big Bang through current information/Mass Media/Pre-Singularity era. I want the reader to be completely swept away by the graphics as much as the storyline because, let's face it, the Big Bang and Quantum Physics are boring, Evolution of the Organism alongise the Evolution of Intelligence within life is just a step up in the yawn factor...
But by the narration of human history, the reader connects to all that has come before to bring us to this point. That connection, I hope, can inspire them to sieze the willpower left latent from the current view of things.
I am driven to create a postive future after reading the ideals of At-One-ment (Ken Wilber, Paul Sheppard, Robert Goodwin, Amit Gotswami, Eckart Tolle). I am writing a narration that takes these discussions out of their lecture-esque format and turns the ideals into entertainment...something the emerging image-focused generation can enjoy reading.
I thoroughly believe the rampant apathy in people today is due to what Baudrillard defines as information vs. communication. Information includes an image, a 30 second news loop, a bitmap or jpg, a picture. Information includes statistics and images that prove a point, but without the dialogue that allows a person to emotionally connect with it. Communication is a transfer of information that also allows a certain "space" for a recipient to make it matter personally, thereby emotionally connecting with it.
Reading is communication, because the dialectic space occurs in a reader's imagination. In the age of HDTV, high-speed internet (allowing more and more flash videos), cable and video games, the "people" who we are trying to awaken have come to expect a cool action packed video to demonstrate how a "positive future" can emerge. WIthout the entertainment value, it's easier to change the channel and get back to their comfortable stupor.
The mental processes that began in me when I first read "The Celestine Prophesy" pointed towards what I was looking for. It was a mystery/thriller with some renosance, much like Angels & Demons, which I read at about the same time.
A goal I have set for myself is to write the storyline for a graphic novel (because the market is HUGE and GROWING) with a first-person-plural narration (like Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily") stating "WE did...." everything from the Big Bang through current information/Mass Media/Pre-Singularity era. I want the reader to be completely swept away by the graphics as much as the storyline because, let's face it, the Big Bang and Quantum Physics are boring, Evolution of the Organism alongise the Evolution of Intelligence within life is just a step up in the yawn factor...
But by the narration of human history, the reader connects to all that has come before to bring us to this point. That connection, I hope, can inspire them to sieze the willpower left latent from the current view of things.

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Great idea! Though I love to read, I really love the trend towards using more and better graphics in communication. I'd love to see your work. Please let me know. = Terre