[FoRK] Baseline for calling out the issue

[Jeff Bone]

On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Lion Kimbro wrote:

>   When the Golden Compass uses a shower of golden sparkly
>   lights to symbolize the quest for Truth -- it's not a  
> "mystification?"

BTW, this is an excellent example of another part of your unique  
symptomology.  (And to be clear;  I've read the books, I haven't seen  
the movie yet.)

You're assuming that you understand what, in fact, the author's /  
director's / etc. intent is in portraying such golden sparkly lights  
(I assume you're talking about the "dust.")  You automatically map  
that symbol to the semantic space of most importance to you --- a  
"quest for Truth."   (Convenient, isn't it...?)

  (In fact, the "dust" is probably intended to symbolize a universal,  
animistic force;  it indeed is probably more accurately identified  
with "god" than e.g. the Authority, which is more accurately  
understood as its political / mundane / social perversion.)

For you, everything is a sign pointing at your particular destination  
--- or, at least, in your particular direction...


jb