This is an insanely thorough article about why Jurassic Park is actually amazing and why it kept me coming back. Most of my favorite points are in the first half. This thing is long (short compared to their other posts). This sites material is pretty dense. Sort of refreshing in contrast to click bate articles. The site mostly deals with technology and ethics. First, there is perhaps no movie that better captures the range and depth of our awe before the power of nature and our own power over it. Throughout the movie, we are brought to feel the field biologist’s primal thrill of terror before mighty creatures; the conservationist’s ancestral thrill of entering the wild; the dual existential thrill of paleontologists, geologists, and astronomers at peering over a span of time in which the self becomes nothing, and yet by knowing transcends; and the bioengineer’s Promethean thrill of releasing the deepest powers of life. For all these reasons, Jurassic Park is not a depiction of science as cool reason, but of science as passion, discovery, and wonder, even fear and trembling — less Richard Dawkins and more Carl Sagan, if Sagan were marveling at the grandeur of existence right as existence was about to eat him for lunch.
Posted on: Thu, 29 May 2014 20:59:36 +0000
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