On days when I am feeling like life is complicated and difficult, I sometimes find myself longing for the comforts of a Hobbit hole. If you don't know, the Hobbit is a little person living in the countryside in a home carved beneath a plot of earth. (I think you might find one in your local idyllic community)
What I find so fascinating is that the opening chapters of this trilogy have the ability to bring me hope and peace. Granted, it's not my "go to" when life is REALLY working my nerves, but it has, on many occasions, provided a fantastical escape to a place where problems like mine don't seem to exist.
Fantasy seems to play an increasingly major role in the interior lives of humans everywhere. From pornography to Second Life, and all of the video game worlds in between, we remain a people in pursuit of meaning.
Will there ultimately be any truth to a custom-tailored reality that responds to the deepest desires of a human heart?
How does the election of artificial realities as a viable means of "living" effect the concrete world?
For a people longing to "become" another person, or the person they were "never able to become", is there any problem with a bit of fantasy?
I'm working on an idea for my life that has a bit to do with constructing a new reality.
I'm beginning to live outside of the laws of this world.
I've found that there is, after all, a Hobbit village.
A place from whence we came.
And a means by which to recover this idyllic reality.
So the next time the Rules of this world cramp your style, ask yourself if you have any authority to amend the law.
If you don't, go get you some real authority.
If you need help, ask me.
Dreamers: dream.
1 comment:
Good post. Yep, I like this one a lot.
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