The Utopia show is my new guilty pleasure. I hate that the show is set up for maximum unresolveable conflict, but something Hex said the other day truly struck me though. She asked when did her body become so sinful.
In the context people were offended at the nudity of the females on the show.
This caused me to really consider my views on the whole situation. For some context of myself, my wife had our baby a few months ago and is breastfeeding. Before then I was uncomfortable with the idea of women in public with bare breasts. Why? I couldnt say exactly at the time and over time I have become accustomed to not only the idea but of seeing it constantly from her or any mother.
So why should it be a problem to be completely nude? And why was I uncomfortable before?
I think ive figured it out. It all comes back to ego and sex.
As a lover of art ive seen thousands of nude forms in paint and sculpture and never did I feel uncomfortable with them. Obviously its not the form that creates that awkward feeling, it's the flesh.
I think the real problem is that I think its safe to say that for most of the time when a nude form is viewed, whether in life or on a screen, it's for sexual pleasure. So when someone sees a nude form thier thoughts go to sex with them, and thats what becomes uncomfortable.
I honestly think its unfair to ask a person to cover up when their form isnt violating you, its your own thoughts violating you. Even worse is when those thoughts spill out and violate others.
I applaud women who are comfotable enough to be nude whether alone or in any other setting because its refreshing to see that women can still be confident in the skin they've been blessed with. Not for any sort of sexual gratification, but because I truly believe the form is beautiful.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
Body of Sin
The Future Digital World
I sincerely hope that in the near future they combine oculus rift with Emotiv to create a digital world we can create and control with our thoughts. I think this might be a way for each of us to create our own utopia to live in.
I came to this line of thinking because I was watching Utopia on Fox and as much as I want that silly bunch of 'pioneers' to succeed, I dont think it can truly happen, because as ridiculous as some of those characters are, people who think just like them are everywhere. And because of those few idiots its impossible to always meet in the middle.
Im not so dissallusioned as to think we could create a perfect world, take a moment and imagine something which is not too far fetched.
Youre in your home and you sit back in your most comfortable chair and put on a vr helmet.
You start in your digital 'home'. Think of it like the desktop of your pc or main menu of your xbox. This is a private space designed by you for you. You have as many rooms as you want to serve whatever needs you have. You have an office, a game room, an art studio and maybe a theatre and each can be anything you imagine. Outside of your front door is the public/social space. The people who live in your 'neighboorhood' are compatible with you. If youre strictly religious, your neighborhood would be made up of people with the same ideals. If you're all about embracing diversity, your neighborhood would be larger. Beyond that you have areas where everyone mingles.
If you like your space your digital rooms in your home can contain worlds built for you by you, or maybe even load someone elses world for the purposes of just enjoying the creative beauty.
Want to visit a femple in India? Teleport there to marvel at its structure. Want to see your favorite band in concert? Just go to your playlist. Want to take a flight through a nebula at lightspeed? Just think and its happening. Want to be entertained? Play a movie and watch like a fly on the wall, or on a giant screen in a theatre, or even be the main character as it plays!
I know that some people will say thats its all just fiction and it would lose the feeling of the real thing, but not everyone has the chance to do these things in real life.
I love the idea of creating a digital social space where anything could happen, like a worldwide digital burning man event. I truly hope one day ill be roaming a digital landscape filled with digital creatures designed by me eating dinosaurs out of a nerds box on a floating mountain of stars while I fly by. Until that becomes a reality, I guess ill just have to stick to my day dreaming ;-)
I came to this line of thinking because I was watching Utopia on Fox and as much as I want that silly bunch of 'pioneers' to succeed, I dont think it can truly happen, because as ridiculous as some of those characters are, people who think just like them are everywhere. And because of those few idiots its impossible to always meet in the middle.
Im not so dissallusioned as to think we could create a perfect world, take a moment and imagine something which is not too far fetched.
Youre in your home and you sit back in your most comfortable chair and put on a vr helmet.
You start in your digital 'home'. Think of it like the desktop of your pc or main menu of your xbox. This is a private space designed by you for you. You have as many rooms as you want to serve whatever needs you have. You have an office, a game room, an art studio and maybe a theatre and each can be anything you imagine. Outside of your front door is the public/social space. The people who live in your 'neighboorhood' are compatible with you. If youre strictly religious, your neighborhood would be made up of people with the same ideals. If you're all about embracing diversity, your neighborhood would be larger. Beyond that you have areas where everyone mingles.
If you like your space your digital rooms in your home can contain worlds built for you by you, or maybe even load someone elses world for the purposes of just enjoying the creative beauty.
Want to visit a femple in India? Teleport there to marvel at its structure. Want to see your favorite band in concert? Just go to your playlist. Want to take a flight through a nebula at lightspeed? Just think and its happening. Want to be entertained? Play a movie and watch like a fly on the wall, or on a giant screen in a theatre, or even be the main character as it plays!
I know that some people will say thats its all just fiction and it would lose the feeling of the real thing, but not everyone has the chance to do these things in real life.
I love the idea of creating a digital social space where anything could happen, like a worldwide digital burning man event. I truly hope one day ill be roaming a digital landscape filled with digital creatures designed by me eating dinosaurs out of a nerds box on a floating mountain of stars while I fly by. Until that becomes a reality, I guess ill just have to stick to my day dreaming ;-)
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