What Art and Positivity Can Make You Feel

Just finished The Crown season 3, episode 6, and I can now say that this is the best show ever made. I’m not adding any caveats, like I did last time, about how much I like it or don’t. I love the shit out of it. The writing and directing both are perfect and not just perfect in the way you expect an Oscar winning drama to be but perfect in the way you should expect any movie to be. I’ve seen many Oscar winning movies that I didn’t care about at all. The show is a marvelous delve into what it means to communicate and to exist as a human being but through the lens of the one family that isn’t allowed to do that at all.

Oscar winner is a typically meaningless descriptive to me. It doesn’t mean anything negative, worse, it means nothing at all. The Crown is perfect in a way that renews my hope in the potential of the medium. Any doubts I might have had are gone. Could you display the true depth of what a real human could be thinking? Could some one actually direct well enough to make up for any possible flaws in acting? I mean can the directors, writers, and actors really work together so well as to make every single character feel that real? How much of the acting is the actors? Can any group of people be that good? Can any one person be that good?

There are shows coming out that make me believe in this medium. Movies, for a while now, but shows, right now; The Crown, The Good Place, Bojack Horeseman. These shows set the new bar, at least to me, for what Television as a medium is capable of. I feel like it doesn’t change my opinion of film since this in no way should be in the same category. Television has time, and it has chapters.

Hyperion served to redouble my confidence in books and I’ve always known the great films from even a long ways back; The Bishop’s Wife, Lawrence of Arabia, The Good the Bad and the Ugly.

We truly, truly, truly live in the golden age of civilization and some how I only see things getting better in the long run. Maybe some wars still happen, and maybe some big ones but the fact that humans are slow learners can’t be ignored. We need a total global realization that compassion, knowledge, creativity, empathy, communication, and being open minded is the only combination that leads to real happiness. I think it’ll happen. The information age. The more that is unknown about our paradise and the incredible people in it then the less there is to be afraid of. The less there is to hate since hate is just fear. Lastly, if we, as a species, are to die due to the unfortunate ignorance of some terrified human with power than that’s just the way it was meant to be.

That’s how the universe works. It’s evolving and if we die than at least we got close to perfection. At least human species was wonderful enough to let us get a taste of heaven before it ended. We got love, art, history, story, philosophy, the internet, language, books, telephones, education, games, organization, and safety. The Dodo Bird didn’t get that. No matter how much we try to glorify animals as if they were saints compared to us that doesn’t make it true. Nature may be in balance but it’s about as fucked up as any existence can get. Don’t let yourself be fooled. A lion is not as nice as your dog. The Cheetah will target and eat the weak, the old, and the children. Gazelle mother’s will let their babies die so that the now feeding Cheetah will let them live. Don’t look at humans and think that just because we are irresponsible and idiotic we are also evil and doomed. All we have to do is keep learning.