#imperfect world

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John Bender // the Breakfast Club // 1985

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The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad, if we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your lover, and I'll hold your hand.

“If We Have Each Other” by Alec Benjamin

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Discrimination in Fiction

How to deal with the touchy stuff in your novels.

Disclaimer: I believe in equality as a writer and a human being. I find racism, sexism and any other form of discrimination or the opposition of cultural or social beliefs to be unacceptable and I do not condone these in any social situation. That being said, should anything be sensitive to readers or be taken out of context, I wish to apologise and say that it is not my intention to do so.

   It’s the kind of subject that really needs to be discussed in the subject of literature and fictional writing. As many already know, discrimination of any kind is a horrible thing and serves as one of the deepest, darkest evils in our world. Terrible things have come to pass throughout history because of it and billions of lives have been lost or wounded by it. It’s a horrible thing and yet I find it a shame to see so few people use this in their fictional writing.    Yes, discrimination is a terrible thing. So too is war, murder, rape, lying and cheating and yet many of these appear very frequently in all kinds of media. So why not discrimination? Through books, many people have learnt the terrors and the horror that these evils can bring and have opened peoples eyes to the darkness each brings. So why not discrimination as well?

   Rather than avoid this subject and not see it eye-to-eye, one should instead not be ashamed of displaying acts of discrimination in their novel. It is something that simply happens and has changed the outcome of history in hundreds of different ways. The incorrect path to take is to glorify discrimination, where you give a suggestion that such a thing is right or just.    That would be like watching a James Bond movie in which Bond listens to the villain, agrees that the evil plan is “for the greater good” and becoming a bad guy. We do not place things such as antagonists (or discrimination) in our stories without being opposed or without being portrayed as something horrible or wrong. We willingly inject evil into our tales to teach people that such evils can be conquered!

   Sorry if this was a somewhat more topical session this time around but once again, I feel as though this was a subject that needed tackling - something that needed to be discussed. If anybody has questions on anything writing related, do not hesitate to ask! I hope this was helpful or at least aided in leaving people with a slightly more open mind. Happy writing!

- CR

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I love the dolls with wonky eyes, I love the dolls with sock dresses. I love the Fairylands, I love the Resinsouls, I love the Volks and the Mirodolls. I love the dolls with hairs out of place, I love up-the-nose shots, I love all of the things that so many people feel the need to mock and judge. Know why? These things remind me of the fact that we are all imperfect, in an imperfect world, and these dolls bring us joy. So, so much joy.

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Reiko and the Dolphin, Okaasan no hibaku piano, Grand Blue, Tailwind, Mottainai Kitchen and Other Japanese Film Trailers

Reiko and the Dolphin, Okaasan no hibaku piano, Grand Blue, Tailwind, Mottainai Kitchen and Other Japanese Film Trailers

Happy weekend, everyone!

I hope you are safe and well.

This week I posted about the upcoming Blu-ray release of Fish Story on August 10th (review coming soon) and the Japanese films at the Locarno Film Festival. I watched Life, Kajaki, Two Days, One Night, Heroic Purgatory, Wild Geese, and I played more of Front Mission 3.

What is released this weekend?

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Only wretched fools die of love

"Only a few wretched fools die of love.If everything is imperfect in this imperfect world, love is most perfect in it's perfect imperfection." - Jöns the squire

-For love to be a perfect imperfection that would mean that love shouldn't be desired, for only a fool wants something that is an imperfection. Those wretched fools who die of love, shouldn't be called fools at all, for they didn't die because of love, quite the contrary, they died because they had lacked the love they were longing for. And if a man were to die of love, not for the lack of, he shouldn't be named a fool, instead he should be named a kind-hearted selfless hero. For those who love are the ones who are selfless, putting other's as their priority, risking their own wellbeing for someone else's, giving up the importance of their future, replacing it with their present just to ensure a pleasant future for those they love. After all of this, even if love is most perfect in it's perfect imperfection, even if we call love the perfect imperfection in the world, wouldn't that mean that love is not capable of pushing us forward. How can something so imperfect make anything better, how can there be progress if love is imperfect? To call love a perfect imperfection is nothing more than lunacy, considering love is the one thing that keeps us kind, keeps us strong and gives us hope. Given the world be an imperfection, I would rather say that the closest thing to purity and perfection is love itself.   If one were to think of the world as imperfect,  finding reasoning behind the statement that everything is imperfect in the imperfect world shouldn't be that hard if we try to understand why someone would think that. Having knowledge of why people considered the world a perfection in the past would be a good starting point to understand why someone would think the opposite, for if the world was not created by an almighty perfect creator then the world wouldn't be capable of being a perfection. If someone takes the views of those who do not believe in such a beginning then it would be perfectly reasonable to call the world an imperfection, but if something is an imperfection would that mean that everything in it is an imperfection as well? Firstly, I believe it is in our best interest to try and see what  the statement "love is most perfect in it's perfect imperfection" offers.  To call something a perfect imperfection means to have levels of imperfection, for if something is a perfect imperfection that would mean that we can find something that is just an imperfection, or an imperfect imperfection, and by stating the later we could conclude that if something is an imperfect imperfection in an imperfect world, we do have perfection in one shape or form. Although just because perfection could exist doesn't mean that the world which is imperfect cannot exist. Secondly, if we do not accept the coexistence of perfection and imperfection only then are we allowed to agree that love is the perfect imperfection or an imperfection of any kind. Yet if love is an imperfection then why would everyone strive for it? All our lives all we want is to be loved and accepted, either that be by someone else or by ourselves.  Is humanity that imperfect that the only thing we know is imperfection? The answer to this question is quite simple, given there are two answers, the first one is "yes" and we would give this answer if we believe that everything is imperfect in this imperfect world. The other obvious answer is quite simply "no". Now something bigger lies ahead of us not because it's hard to find possible answers but because we still haven't touched upon it, and that is,  if we truly are imperfect and yet capable of finding perfection, wouldn't that make us perfect in a way?  

Yes it would, is what I should say if I want to keep this short while still having the little attention you have left. But we must see the reasoning behind the answer, and realize that even though the answer is yes, it is not that simple of an answer. To start this off, it was already said that the coexistence with perfection and imperfection was not a problem, so saying that the imperfect thing, i.e. humanity, is capable of being perfect in a way wouldn't be contradictory, since the existence of imperfect imperfection was already accepted. Following that, if imperfection is the lack of perfection, it is easy to see and say that humanity is imperfect because it is lacking love. Once one person finds love in it's true form the imperfection is a thing of the past, what follows now is the well-being which is impossible within the imperfection.   To find love does not only mean to be loved, but rather to be both loved and to love, for only then can someone be both selfless and selfish. As it was previously said, the act of loving someone requires selflessness, while the act of being love is a selfish act. Once a person is selfless and yet selfish, then that person has achieved happiness.            Once every person becomes both selfless and selfish, only then does the imperfect world become filled with perfection. Once everyone started loving each other, only then can the imperfection be replaced with perfection. If anything love is an imperfect perfection, giving the world a hope for a better tomorrow, giving meaning to life, giving light to the darkness. For only perfection, no matter in what stage, can push us forward.