Bong Joon Hu illustrates
a world wherein moral hierarchy is directly paralleled and, in fact, determined
by, socioeconomic hierarchy, hence lending each individual any number of
excuses in a world devoid of either heroes or villains. The world I’ve been
developing, modeled after the World as I see it, is predicated, conversely, and
to the most decisive extent, upon the TENSION BETWEEN moral, social, and
economic hierarchies. Being poor does not make you evil, nor does it render you
unpopular by necessity, so it does not lend you an excuse, and neither does
being rich warrant contempt and envy, unless of course YOU CHOOSE to abuse your
station. Upward mobility might be according to the path of material and even
spiritual acquisition, or it can be moral progress, ascesis, self-sacrifice,
and personal purification. Hence mine is an existentialist world of decisions
and particulars, details which correspond to underlying archetypes which are
only revealed when you have earned that revelation. Conversely, Bong’s world is
a postmodern world of excuses, emotions, and instinctive drives, unregulated by
Reason. Mine is not the step back, however, but the reaffirmation of an everlasting
autonomy and responsibility which many great sages knew would be obscured in our
age, and I mean to depict it within the medium and, to some extent, the sensibility
of the present. It is a synthesis of parts that had been scattered, like Osiris,
for us to find and to put back together. Such is the Truth, as well as
Goodness, Beauty, and all other Transcendent Values.
[({Dm.A.A.)}]
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