Nine Cool Things

Below are nine cool things that make this limited series unique (and cool)…

1. Purpose: Critique Modernity. An Antidote (From Plato).

Critique of modernity: False dilemmas. Haves vs. have-nots. “Mind” vs. “body.” Superior vs. inferior. How we see the “comsos” affects our “polis” (society). Much of our social division we can trace back to an unspoken idea of “cosmos.”

Plato has a way out in his Symposium: our sex drive (which is physical) can lift us up to higher places. Sex isn’t merely physical. It’s imbued with something higher.

(Renaissance philosopher Montaigne had a similar idea. In fact, I got his phrase “marry body and soul” from him. It’s funny: we can trace the Cartesian dualism at the heart of modernity to Descartes opposing Montaigne.)

Aim of this project: challenge the idea body and soul are enemies. Bring it to light. Explore its social problems: Puritanism. Materialism. Capitalism. Offer another idea: marriage of body and soul. Or beauty. Beauty can light the spirit.

I also want to make this series/movie for those of us who feel sad (or lost) in our Cartesian-capitalist culture. I wanted this kind of “outlet” when I felt lost myself.