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To: RMF who wrote (983789)	11/25/2016 2:36:31 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574690

Not really, I understand that we are all products of our genetic hard wiring and our environment. We all have the good the bad and the ugly in us. What history tells us is that the more sophisticated we get intellectually the kinder and more understanding we become. The more we are able to empathize and suppress venal primitive instincts. I was just getting ready to write a note to my kids. For the last couple of years I have been fascinated with South Korean cinema. Time and again I would try to watch Hollywood and just quit whatever I was watching because I found it so boring and boorish. That seldom happens with South Korean cinema. Even the most run of the mill movie will have intellectual behavior because it seems to be part of their culture. They are light years ahead of us. So I like watching them simply interact. I contrast them with duck dynasty in my head-lol. After watching probably 100 South Korean cinemas I've become very familiar with their culture. At least the modern liberal arts interpretation of their culture. And what I like about it I think, why it draws me back to it, over and over, is the sophistication of their humanity and the way they portray an ideal society. Sensitive, honorable and beautiful. Poetic and profound. If I only saw it in one or two movies, I could dismiss it as the genius of a particular writer, or director. But this sophisticated philosophical dialogue relating to ethics and philosophy, aesthetics and understanding runs through all of them. They are simply operating at a much higher level than we are in this country. Watching their cinema is like reading poetry or seeing a garden. What they project is the kind of society I would like to live in. One of understanding and humanity, politeness and caring. If we don't have that image in our minds eye, of happy children laughing and smiling and being nice and adults taking care of them, how can we affect a society that is like that and their due? We can only construct a beautiful society if we can understand beauty. And understanding the trials and tribulations that all people face to some degree. Plato always said be kind to everyone, because everyone's having a rough time. Descendants of the sun is one of my favorites. If one ignores the corny stuff and concentrates on the dialogue it is a good example of the ideal. We have to strive for the ideal.