Wednesday 9 March 2022
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Tuesday 19 October 2021
Different Powers
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Thursday 7 January 2021
Luke Works Intuitively, Throughout Most of The Movies — Until He Gets to The Very End
Friday 1 March 2019
The Dreamer and The Dream
'I want to quote for you, to you, from the oldest history book in Western Civilization.
Not just because it's a book -
but I think this is a point one can make about any history course, it doesn't matter what the subject is.
It can be Social History, Political History, Intellectual History, any history.
It can be the History of Ancient Rome, it could be Post-1945 United States, it could be any history.
But any history course ought to do the two things that Herodotus named in the opening sentence of the oldest history book we have.
This is Herodotus,
The History.
Isn't it great when you're writing The First Book,
what are you going to call it?
The History;
no subtitles, nothing fancy, just--
"I, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, am here setting forth my history, that time may not draw the color from what Man has brought into being, nor those great and wonderful deeds manifested by both the Greeks and the barbarians, fail of their report, and together, with all of this, the reason why they fought one another."
I don't know how closely you listened to that, but what has Herodotus just said?
He's basically said
It's The Story, it's the color, it's the great deeds, it's the narrative that takes you somewhere;
but it's also The Reason Why,
That's what history does.
It's supposed to do both of those things.
Destiny is Male,
JOSEPH,
Benjamin SiSKO :
JOSEPH,
Benjamin SiSKO :
JOSEPH,
Benjamin SiSKO :
JOSEPH,
Benjamin SiSKO :
JOSEPH,
Benjamin SiSKO :
JOSEPH,
No one is indispensable, son.
Benjamin SiSKO :
But he's not here,
JOSEPH,
[Magazine office]
KAY:
What about,
JULIUS:
It's a smashing title.
(Benny is let in.)
HERBERT:
Hey, Benny.
BENNY,
Is it here?
JULIUS:
Not yet.
KAY:
We're waiting for his return with baited breath.
ALBERT:
We heard that you were
KAY:
We heard they beat the hell out of you.
BENNY,
Meaning 'Son of' :
ALBERT:
Glad to see that you're, you know, up and about.
DARLENE:
Tell him the good news, Albert.
ALBERT:
Oh, it's nothing.
KAY:
Nothing?
BENNY,
A novel. Albert, congratulations!
ALBERT:
Thank you.
BENNY,
Robots?
ALBERT:
What else?
(Pabst enters.)
JULIUS:
It's about time.
HERBERT:
Douglas? Magazine?
PABST:
There isn't any magazine.
BENNY,
He can't do that.
PABST:
BENNY,
What's that supposed to mean?
PABST:
It means he didn't like it.
BENNY,
What exactly is it that he did not like?
KAY:
Take it easy, Benny.
BENNY,
No, it's about my story, isn't it?
PABST:
Hey! This magazine belongs to Mister Stone.
BENNY,
That doesn't make it right and you know it.
PABST:
Don't tell me what I know.
HERBERT:
What!
BENNY,
You're firing me?
PABST:
I have no choice, Benny.
BENNY,
Well, you can't fire me.
JULIUS:
Try to stay calm, Benny.
BENNY,
No. I'm tired of being calm.
PABST:
I'm warning you, Benny.
BENNY,
You go ahead! Call them!
(Benny collapses, sobbing.)
[New York Street]
AMBULANCE MAN:
Easy.
(Benny is wheeled out to a very old ambulance even by 1953 standards.)
AMBULANCE MAN:
One, two three.
[Ambulance]
(Benny is in Starfleet uniform. He puts on his glasses.)
PREACHER:
Rest easy, Brother Benny.
BENNY,
Tell me, please. Who am I?
PREACHER:
Don't you know?
BENNY,
Tell me.
PREACHER:
You're The Dreamer and The Dream.
(There are stars streaking past the rear windows.)
[Isolation Ward]
(Benny Russell has been writing on the walls of his padded cell)
WYKOFF:
I said, put down the pencil. Put it down, Mister Russell.
BENNY,
But I haven't finished my story yet. Captain Sisko has found the Orb of the Emissary.
But he hasn't opened it yet.
WYKOFF:
Mister Russell, you promised not to write on the walls.
BENNY,
No one will give me any paper.
WYKOFF:
I thought we agreed that you weren't going to write at all. That you needed to rest.
BENNY,
No, I don't need to rest. I need to tell my stories.
WYKOFF:
You were doing so well, Benny.
Making real progress.
We were all so proud of you.
BENNY,
I need to go home.
WYKOFF:
We're going to send you home as soon as you're well.
BENNY,
I'm fine.
WYKOFF:
But you're not fine.
BENNY,
Then get me a typewriter.
WYKOFF:
The stories have got to stop, Benny.
BENNY,
Too dangerous to whom?
WYKOFF:
To you. This world you've created, this Deep Space Nine. Captain Sisko and Kira and the others. None of it is real.
BENNY,
Oh, it is to me.
WYKOFF:
It doesn't matter, Benny.
BENNY,
But My Story!
WYKOFF:
It's over. Just let it go.
[Desert]
(Sisko is sitting with his hands on the box.)
EZRI DAX,
Benjamin, what are you waiting for?
JAKE,
He can't hear you.
(Jake puts his hands on his father's and is thrown backwards)
EZRI DAX,
Jake! Jake, are you all right?
JAKE,
Yeah.
[Isolation Ward]
(The doctor is offering Benny a roller of white paint.)
WYKOFF:
Take it, Benny.
BENNY,
What for?
WYKOFF:
I'm offering you an opportunity few people ever get.
You can wipe away all your mistakes.
BENNY,
You want me to paint over My Story?
WYKOFF:
They're only words.
Meaningless words that no one cares about.
Get rid of them and you can walk out of here a free man.
(The last line on the wall says 'Sisko reaches for the Orb box and...' )
WYKOFF:
Go ahead.
Save yourself.
(Benny holds the paint roller close to the writing.)
[Desert]
EZRI DAX,
Ben?
Ben SISKO :
EZRI DAX,
[Isolation Ward]
WYKOFF:
It's for your own good, Benny.
[Desert]
EZRI DAX,
Ben, stop.
(Sisko raises his shovel to smash down on the box.)
EZRI DAX,
No!
Ben SISKO :
EZRI DAX,
Ben, you came here to find The Prophets, remember?
Ben SISKO :
Move!
EZRI DAX,
No, listen to me.
(Sisko raises the shovel, Benny holds the roller. They both drop them.)
[Isolation Ward]
WYKOFF:
No!
(Benny punches Wykoff and the male nurse, picks up his pencil and writes 'Opens it.')
[Desert]
(Sisko obeys. The glow of the crystal orb shoots of into space, then)
[Limbo]
(Sisko watches the energy shoots past DS9 and WHOOSH! the wormhole reopens.)
[Limbo]
Ben SISKO :
Show yourselves.
[Sisko's restaurant]
(The baseball rolls off the piano and is picked up by)
SARAH,
Ben SISKO :
SARAH,
The Kosst Amojan no longer threatens us.
Ben SISKO :
You mean the Pah wraith?
SARAH,
I have cast it out.
Ben SISKO :
Is that why The Prophets sent me to Tyree?
SARAH,
The Kosst Amojan tried to stop you with a False Vision.
Ben SISKO :
My Destiny?
SARAH,
The Sisko must still face many Tasks.
Ben SISKO :
I don't suppose you'll tell me what they are.
[Sisko's restaurant - alley]
SARAH,
The Emissary is Corporeal. Linear.
Ben SISKO :
Linear or not, I need some answers.
SARAH,
The Sisko is intrusive.
Ben SISKO :
Are you Sarah Sisko?
SARAH,
Sarah Sisko was corporeal.
[Sisko's restaurant]
Ben SISKO :
You took over her body, made sure she married My Father so that she'd give birth to Me.
SARAH,
The Sisko is Necessary.
Ben SISKO :
And once you didn't need her anymore, you left her.
SARAH,
The Sisko would prefer different answers.
Ben SISKO :
What you're telling me isn't easy to accept.
SARAH,
The Sisko's Path is a difficult one.
Ben SISKO :
But Why Me?
SARAH,
(Sisko closes the Orb box.)
EZRI DAX,
Benjamin? That must have been some Orb experience.
Ben SISKO :
I'll tell you about it someday.
Friday 18 January 2019
You Can’t Win — But There ARE Alternatives to Fighting
- ‘I want to come with you
to Alderaan— I want Learn The Ways of The Force and Become a Jedi Like My Father’ - ‘I feel The Force — I’m not afraid’ (You WILL Be [ Subtext : You SHOULD Be (And you aren’t yet, you Young Fool.)] )
- ‘You’ve Failed, Your Highness* — I am a Jedi; Like My Father Before Me**...’
“There are some corners of The Universe which have bred the most terrible THINGS....
Things that act against EVERYTHING that We Believe In....
They Must Be FOUGHT.”
Here’s What We Had This Year Instead of
Traditional Conflict/Battle/Combat :
The Woman Who Fell to Earth :
Cheating
It isn’t The Point that Tim Shaw is collecting teeth or hunting sentient life forms, or Male Rites of All Passage, or ‘Toxic Masculinity’, its the fact that he is blatantly, massively CHEATING at it, and he DOESN’T.
He only care’s to the extent of Not-Getting-Caught & Punished :
Which is The Definition of Tyranny.
The Ghost Monument :
Marriage is a Project, not a Race.
Women are more interested in People
Men are more interested in Things
Rosa :
It’s not about ‘Social Justice’ it’s just Justice —
and they had to go to the 51st Century to find someone who thinks that’s a bad idea.
Arachnids in The UK :
Laws of Nature
and
Law in General
The Tsuranga Conundrum :
Parasitism vs. Parenting
Demons of The Punjab :
Spiritual Warfare
Kerblam! :
Corporate Social Responsibility
The Witchfinders :
Scapegoating
(it’s not actually about ‘Women’, as such)
It Takes You Away :
Alienation, Loneliness and Social Isolation
(Or, ‘Norway.’ )
The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos :
Revenge.
Resolution :
...but you can’t negotiate with a Malignant Narcissist.
Ryan’s Dad is NOT a Malignant Narcissist — he’s just a bit of a clueless d*ck.