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The Master


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🎙️ EPISODE 261: 05.08.20

The Master is an interesting movie to watch in these virus and post-virus (*) days. It is a film about many things. Most notably for me, during this recent re-watch, I found the idea of enlightenment (and the often unsound, futile search for it) to be square at the heart of the matter, and further to the point: the flaw, the grift, the downright lie of that, all of that – that's the thing ...

* Sidebar * The idea of virus vs. post-virus... is... fascinating stuff, because if we never get a vaccine or otherwise move past the eradication of not just this one, but potential mutations, different, possibly worse strands... hot damn, then there is no post-"anything." There just "is" ?)​
Whether you find Freddie Quell to be lost or loathsome seems to be less of the point. The plainspoken exchange with The Master at the end of the film paints a pretty clear picture as to one of the more glaring themes. "If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you? For you'd be the first person in the history of the world," Philip Seymour Hoffman as Lancaster Dodd says. This "master" is abstract, and can be seen as such: an ethos, a god, a system, a man or woman, yourself, sure. Mastery itself is a complete abstraction. You can google "number of game winning shots nba" and find a list where Michael Jordan has made none, zero, zilch...

The mastery we're talking about with The Master is of course different than throwing an orange sphere through a hoop. It's mastery of The Big Stuff: Life and How to Live It. And to that point, Master Dodd is correct.

​ Lucky for the rest of us, the history of the world is still unwritten. It's as bleak as it can get right now. What happens if it gets darker? These ideas might be meaningless.

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EPISODE 260 - (YOU ARE HERE) - EPISODE 261B ⫸

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