Day after day we seek an answer to the ageless question Aristotle posed in Ethics: How should a human being lead his life? But the answer eludes us, … - Robert McKee
" "Day after day we seek an answer to the ageless question Aristotle posed in Ethics: How should a human being lead his life? But the answer eludes us, hiding behind a blur of racing hours as we struggle to fit our means to our dreams, fuse idea with passion, turn desire into reality. (...)
Traditionally humankind has sought the answer to Aristotle's question from the four wisdoms - philosophy, science, religion, art - taking insight from each to bolt together a livable meaning. But today who reads Hegel or Kant without an exam to pass? Science, once the great explicator, garbles life with complexity and perplexity. Who can listen without cynicism to economists, sociologists, politicians? Religion, for many, has become an empty ritual that masks hypocrisy. As our faith in traditional ideologies diminishes, we turn to the source we still believe in: the art of story.
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El peligro es el siguiente: cuando nuestra premisa es una idea que pensamos que debemos demostrar al mundo y diseñamos nuestro relato como un certificado irrechazable de esa idea, nos embarcamos en la didáctica. En nuestro afán por convencer reducimos el poder del otro lado. Utilizamos mal nuestro arte, y abusamos de él para sermonear, y así nuestros guiones se convierten en películas de tesis, en sermones vagamente disfrazados cuando intentamos convertir al mundo de una única pincelada.
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