Show and Tell
Here’s a clip from the movie The Proposition I wanted to share. This clip always reduces me to silence. I begin to understand, or so I allow myself to think that I glean or grasp something beyond cursory human comprehension each time I see it. We think that beneath the brittle and frail facade of human hypocrisy that what we are (our true nature) is ugly and reprehensible….so we spend our whole lives constructing fictions about who and what we are, practicing our poor pathetic performances. We are athletes of abnegation trying to be what we are not, but what we value as ‘beautiful’, ‘civilized’, ’sophisticated’ or redeeming…To me… that is the epitome of ugliness…and what is shameful and ugly to others…is precisely what captivates and compels my awe regarding the beauty of others.
