06.03
A friend at Northwestern told me about these birds that were trained to collect coins to receive a food reward. The idea being that we could eventually train them to clean up trash or do other tasks we don’t want to. These birds would fly beyond the test site and collect coins and coin-like objects for a reward. I wonder if this is what god is doing. Tricking us to do his bidding. Although I like what is says about humanity that we have created just and well-intentioned god. If we are created in his image then he is probably lazy.
Birds do have the freedom to fly, but to fly your brain must be so small and light-weight that you would not be able to comprehend how fun it would be. The world is not a perfect place.
I thought of a good premise for a movie. It would feature many contradictory life lessons with the goal of teaching moderation and the need to live with paradoxes. This comes from me and Max trying to analyze the film The Song of Sparrows, an Iranian film, that we saw last night for a deeper meaning. The hearing aid is clearly about the struggle to teach younger generations who have problems hearing. The bicycle symbolizes his body as they both begin to break down under the strain of city living. The blue door is about communicating with neighbors – which the main character rejects until they help him later. The antenna is about ties to the urban city life over local ostrich life. Why the damn bird comes back makes no sense to me. The film is partially I think about laughing about how horrible life can be and about scavenging what remains to build something greater without hording. It was a film that could not have been made by/in America.