Puppeteer

If you’re looking for some mindless entertainment the film Rubber is perfect for you. Rubber was created in 2010 and falls into the horror comedy genre. Rubber was written, directed and edited by Quentin Dupieux. It was produced by Gregory Bernard, Julien Berlan, and Kevos Van Der Meiren. The main characters in the film are a car tire, Lieutenant Chad (Stephen Spinella), Sheila (Roxane Mesquida), and an accountant (Jack Plotnick). The film starts out discussing things with no reasons and how…

There is a tendency in popular discourse to speak about God, from the New Testament, as a merciful and kind figure. With The Old Testament, however, God is represented very differently. Throughout many moments in the Bible, God is merciful and kind, while in others, he is hot-tempered, impulsive, and cruel. These drastically different representations of God in the Old Testament are especially evident in the relationships between God and his prophets. In Adam’s story in Genesis, God’s…

The greed for power is a wicked part of human nature that has the potentials to consume humanity. In Mary Shelley’s gothic novel, Frankenstein, it begins with Robert Walton’s letter to his sister, revealing his plan to obtain glory by reaching the North Pole. During his journey, he comes across a man named Victor Frankenstein, who tells Walton the story about his creation. Although the monster is innocent at first, Victor explains to Walton that he must end the monster’s corrupted life to obtain…

The psychological manipulation in George Orwell’s novel 1984 creates compliant citizens through fear, history, media, and the altering of values. The fear of consequence elicits the obedience of Oceania’s inhabitants. Proffer Brainchild’s image titled “Emotional Manipulation” shows a large hand in the process of pressing an off button on the back of a man’s head (Document D). This represents the supremacy of the Party, as they can destroy Outer Party Members with ‘the push of a button’, as…

with human personalities and characteristics. These characters exhibit human intelligence and facial expressions, the ability to speak, walk on two legs, and wear clothing. The subculture includes the artists, writers, illustrators, role players, puppeteers, and fans of furries who meet and converse in groups on the internet and gather at conventions.They are an expansive community with smaller groups that have a majority of similarities but with some varying differences. The aspect of the…

Micro aggressions are in abundant cyst that continues to grow on the navel of society. Whether they be painful or none existent they still exist. Claudia Rankine author of, Citizen, was someone aided in pointing out these atrocities. For people of color (in this case black people) it is a shard of glass that feels the need to dig its way into their shoulders a little deeper with each passing day. This is because racism is the most practiced sport still in existence. In the book, Rankine…

with the theory of forms without actual imagery versus concepts. The allegory of the cave talks of people who are unable to turn their heads to either side, or look behind them. There is a fire behind these prisoners, as well as a barrier where puppeteers are able to hold up puppets that create shadows on the wall of the cave. The prisoners cannot see the puppets, but can see the shadows cast by the actual objects they can’t see. Thus the prisoners see the shadows as being real things. If a…

The True Puppeteer What is free will? Is it a false belief or an idea of human actions? Paul Halbach believes that human beings do not have ‘free will’, because he is a determinist. A determinist believes that all human choices, events, actions, and reactions are all already determined. Holbach argues that ,us, human beings as physical objects, that only obey the un-mutable laws of nature, and that the environment we live in, influences our cognitive thinking that fuels our actions, the way we…

To find the answer to the metaphysical question ‘What is real?” has been a philosopher’s intention for years. The Matrix, directed by Andy Wachowski and the written text, Plato’s Allegory of the Cave revolves around the concept of replying to this question. These two mediums share more similarities than differences. The Matrix as well as the Allegory of the Cave shares the concept of acceptance and broadening ones senses, the desire to learn, and having the knowledge to realize when one is in…

In Plato, Republic, Book VII, the core of the book revolves around justice and its implications from both an individual and collective perspective. Plato does not have Socrates argue that justice requires getting everyone out of the cave because in actuality, there are two parts to justice and the cave: the truth and the false. According to Plato, people often live in illusion. Illusions appeal to sensible people and their senses whereas reality, does not function with reason alone, it includes…