I must say, I was very impressed, and enjoyed many aspects of the movie. This is one of those rare jems that I think successfully introduced a philosphy. The main idea tossed about was what is an idea, and what is a person; or better said, the difference between the two. This is something that I heard mentioned by Dawkins. He gives ideas the same basic principles as a biological body. Where a person has their biological design in their genes, an idea is made out of memes. I belive this is in his book The River out of Eden.
This goes well with a good deal of personal ideas that I have had in a similar direction about what is a culture. I belive that it is a being.. in the same way that an animal is made up of many living cells, a culture is made up of cells that can be though of as people, or groups of people.
Buda de Ensenada
This is for another post, so I will go on quickly with a little local note. We finnally made our way this weekend to the buda that is in Ensenada. In the morning we spent there we were able to pick up all the garbage (about 6 bag worth) and put in some new plants to make the park look better. I do hope that some other people want to come and work with us, but it was a very nice feeling to clean something up. There is much more graffity, but this is something out of our control.. I can only hope that this mentality is slowly dieing away as people are more educated.. but only time can show.
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Hi, my name is Xavier and I live in Ensenada. With a group of people we are triying to restore the Tara statue in Ensenada and I came across your blog page were you have an image of it. Currently the statue is in pretty bad shape with graffiti and all destroyed, but in your picture it is not as bad. We are looking for images when it was better preserved. Do you have more images?. Our group and of course Tara will be gratefull. My email is xlmedellin@yahoo.com
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