Dori, I wouldn't have thought to include the world of the Horizon video games in an analysis like this but I'm glad you did because now I see that it fits really well. I understand that it could be difficult to see the positives of Horizon's world because, like Wall-E's, it was born from an apocalyptic event, but there is some strange form of harmony that permeates it since man-made machines have integrated into the ecosystem with relative fluidity. Aloy is the perfect hero for that world since, like a native hunter who has learned to use every part of an organic animal, she learns to utilize both the active machines and parts of the inorganic animals instead of simply destroying them like many of the other characters. She then uses and shares this knowledge to try to better her world. Great observations!
Dori, you make some well observed connections between popular media and big thematic concepts. Your notion that "environment" and humans are two sides of pendulum, and, if left unbalanced, it can cause disruption and chaos. If we are thinking ecologically, the environment and nature aren't "out there" like Morton asserts. Nature is more than woodland regions filled with flowers. WE are nature. Our very decisions shape and change the reality that lies before us and, undoubtedly, our ultimate fates. However, as you mention, there is sort of a dichotomy between "balance" and "connection." You can balance a scale per say, but to be connected with yourself, nature, and your surroundings is to truly ecologically balance it.
I Like where you went with this; it would be cool to study "the end of the world" in fiction and film. There's a theory called the Gaia Hypothesis. My parents recorded an instrumental album that they called Gaia that was based off of the Gaia Hypothesis. What it is, is the concept of the Earth as a living being and humans existing on Earth as parasites. If we let this play out, the Earth runs a fever and kills the parasites. I'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially it. It is interesting how that scenario is dramatized in fiction and film. It's like a way to make the very real problems that feel so far away to many people feel more urgent, more present.
Dori, I wouldn't have thought to include the world of the Horizon video games in an analysis like this but I'm glad you did because now I see that it fits really well. I understand that it could be difficult to see the positives of Horizon's world because, like Wall-E's, it was born from an apocalyptic event, but there is some strange form of harmony that permeates it since man-made machines have integrated into the ecosystem with relative fluidity. Aloy is the perfect hero for that world since, like a native hunter who has learned to use every part of an organic animal, she learns to utilize both the active machines and parts of the inorganic animals instead of simply destroying them like many of the other characters. She then uses and shares this knowledge to try to better her world. Great observations!
Dori, you make some well observed connections between popular media and big thematic concepts. Your notion that "environment" and humans are two sides of pendulum, and, if left unbalanced, it can cause disruption and chaos. If we are thinking ecologically, the environment and nature aren't "out there" like Morton asserts. Nature is more than woodland regions filled with flowers. WE are nature. Our very decisions shape and change the reality that lies before us and, undoubtedly, our ultimate fates. However, as you mention, there is sort of a dichotomy between "balance" and "connection." You can balance a scale per say, but to be connected with yourself, nature, and your surroundings is to truly ecologically balance it.
I Like where you went with this; it would be cool to study "the end of the world" in fiction and film. There's a theory called the Gaia Hypothesis. My parents recorded an instrumental album that they called Gaia that was based off of the Gaia Hypothesis. What it is, is the concept of the Earth as a living being and humans existing on Earth as parasites. If we let this play out, the Earth runs a fever and kills the parasites. I'm paraphrasing, but that's essentially it. It is interesting how that scenario is dramatized in fiction and film. It's like a way to make the very real problems that feel so far away to many people feel more urgent, more present.