`People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practise Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from the literature of the whole world- all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could come out of their own souls [...] Ethically, of course, it is infinitely more convenient to leave God the sole responsibility for such a Home for Idiot Children...`
Excerpts from Carl Gustav Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1980
Since I am reading quite a lot besides what would be considered directly linked to the area of multimedia, I was thinking of trying to somehow record the process through which I draw some of my ideas by highlighting things that make sense to me. The important thing is that issues raised in this excerpts are interconnected in a more or less apparent fashion with other ideas, that are part of different fields of activity. Yet, what I always found strange is how obstinent specialists in these areas are to a more interdisciplinary approach (even if it is nowadays a notion that gets more attention). People still discover the wheel in some areas, while in others, the same wheel has become a square because of isolation or over-specialisation.
What is the purpose of all this? Well, since my showcase is going to focus a lot on ideas and I will most likely have to throw in some symbolical representation mojo, I might as well try to consciously (as much as one can) follow the trail that leads me down the rabbit hole...here we go!
More episodes to come...
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