Fifth Bussines/Carl Jung
As I was watching Baraka a noticed a striking comparison to my favorite movie and book, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the novel it states: "Man had been re-made by his own tools." Man has come to depend on his tools so completely that he is a slave to them. Without his tools, Man would not have survived, four million years ago. Even today, Man needs tools to continue his existence - but those tools threaten to destroy Man as well. This is also the central themes of Baraka: is man stronger than his own tools (in this case possessions), or are they really the masters. Technology and globalization has extended human life spans and levels of comfort. But it also destroys thousands of remote cultures. The current trend today is that we should modernize non-western countries which will break down cultural barriers to produce a global society. But the loss of traditional cultures means loss of knowledge too. Many cultures have insight into nature that still defies modern science. It is arrogant to think that other cultures are inferior to ours and should therefore assimilate for the benefit of a global society. The scenes in Baraka that show the Buddhist monks and the African women dancing are there to amplify
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars . Benjamin Franklin coined the phrase, "American Dream" during the early infancy of our country, proposing this dream as, "That pursuit of a better existence and a higher quality of life through hard work, determination, and devotion. In Baraka when it shows the chicks being crammed down the shoots and then juxtaposed to the people being crowded into the subway cars we see that our actions are done in vain. I fail to see how advanced and superior our society is when we allow people to starve and children to be subjugated to inhuman conditions. Children offer themselves or, in some cases, are sold for sex in return for money. The Westerners seem to have been sucked into an existential vacuum, they are experiencing an emotional and a more important spiritual death which is shown by the lack of ethics and empathy. Poverty is probably the most important factor contributing to the growth of child prostitution. " This over time has become tainted resulting in a society fixated on consuming. The poem Five Ways to Kill a Man is very effective not only does it illustrate the horrific deeds of war but it shows the loss of humanity and conscience over the years. In developing countries particularly, the lack of possible economic opportunities, particularly in rural areas, combined with rising expectations and the desire to acquire modern goods, contributes to the potential for exploitation.
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