I don’t know about you, but there is a moment every once in a while when I need to stop and ponder over things. Tonight’s reflection was inspired by a movie, not one of the best for that matter. It’s called “The Black Forest” and it shows the adventures of a group of people who go in these woods on Saint John’s Eve and get tricked by the fairies, goblins, werewolves, witches and other imaginary monsters who want revenge on modern people….because they’ve stopped believing in all these dream or nightmare-like creatures. Of course, children are spared, because they still believe. The idea is not to scare the humans but to compel belief in them and finally to hold them forever prisoners in the Black Forest and feed on them. Sometimes literally. It is often said that one should keep a child’s soul and freshness and that means believing. Of course, not in fairies and trolls, they are a mere metaphor, but to still be able to believe that miracles are possible and that despite a sometimes grim reality we must preserve hope. But if under-believing is seen as a sign of “old age”, over-believing can sometimes be the premise of madness. It is the hypo/hyper loss of balance. What can really happen when we are in, let’s coin it as “fairy-tale overdrive”? First of all what was once imaginary becomes “real” in a human way. That is, it acquires logic. Or, a fairy tale often has a logic of its own. Or several. It can go back and forth on characters and events and even totally reverse typologies. Secondly, we become, undoubtedly, the main character of the tale. It’s very difficult not to, we are, after all, the only reference point. But as a totally accepted imaginary protagonist, we are super-humanized. We can do whatever we want. And what’s more: we are always right, we never fail. Believing in oneself as a super-human protagonist sets us above the human logic. We feel that we are “endowed” with knowledge and truth and all our actions become important to the point of overpowering everything else. Can it become dangerous? I think it can when our super-humanized ego chooses a one-character epic and a quest over people. In other words, when we decide to bypass people around us and become the I-tagonist of an imaginary tale. When the super-humanity trumps humanity.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:34:50 +0000
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