Figuring out the meaning of life is for intellects vastly greater than mine, but I reckon if human beings exist for anything in this massive and terrible cosmos, it's to experience this slice of time and space that we exist in, and accumulate data and information about it, and process it, interpret it and record it.
We're the part of the universe that looks back on ourselves, and sees beauty in it, and if we've got any fucking sense, we'll observe without interfering too much, unless it's to stop true injustice and misery.
In other words, The Watcher totally knows the score.
Hi Bob Temuka,
ReplyDeleteI read your post about the Watcher and I liked it. If I had to write a post about this series, it would probably be a bit different from yours, of course. But there is one element of your post that would, for sure, be an element of mine. That is the following.
I read articles about The Watcher on the web and they all (or they mostly) deal with that series as one would deal with an ordinary thriller. They analyze the primary meaning of the series and they wonder who is responsible for what’s happening in the series (in this case, for writing the letters). For them, what’s important is trying to unsterstand which person (or persons) is the Watcher.
On the other hand, your post analyzes the series on a different level (maybe one can say on a deepest level). The Watcher doesn’t have to be a person, but it can also be something other than a person. Therefore, the question becomes, not WHO but WHAT is the Watcher.
The title of your post makes that point clear. You write : “What if… the Watcher was actually a decent metaphor for the meaning of life?“ Whereas the other articles on the web write “we don’t know WHO the Watcher is“, you write “we might actually know WHAT the Watcher is“, and that is, in your opinion, a metaphor. You are even more spectific, writing that it might be a metaphor of the “meaning of life“.
I would competely agree on both points, which are 1/ it is more important to know WHAT the Watcher is than to know WHO he is ; and 2/ there seems to be a link between what is is and a philosophical notion, such as, for instance, the meaning of life.
I could write a lot more on the subject, but I prefer to stop here, and content myself with those only two points, because I feel sure that we agree on those two points, and because that makes our analyzes very different from so many analyzes on the web, which keeps wondering WHO the watcher might be, or lament that the series doesn’t tell us who he is and why he wrote the letters.
If you want to discuss more about the series I would be glad to do that.
I also liked the phrase on the top of the blog but I don’t know if it’s from you (the rats inside one’s head discovered through college). Been there.
Sorry for my english which isn’t my first language.
Best regards,
MJ