"When I was young I set out to change the world.
When I grew older I perceived that this was too ambitious,
so I set out to change my state.
This too, I realized as I grew older, was too ambitious,
so I set out to change my town.
When I realized that I could not do even this, I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man I know that I should have started by changing myself.
If I had started with myself, maybe then I would have succeeded
in changing my family, the town, or even the state-
and who knows, maybe the world."
(unknown)

May 23, 2009

‘Take home message’ of a movie.. questionable..

Just watched Terminator Salvation... well, when getting older, felt myself do not prefer this killing or war-type of action movie.. full of actions only or too many, including that throwing around of John Connor action, instead of quick execution, by the Terminator perhaps.. After the movie, I was wondering, besides actions, what was it about? However, a ‘take home message’ that I was able to remember was.. a question that actually many might curious about.. quite interesting yet difficult to deal with somehow.. What makes us human?

Are we (or some of us) living like a machine? What makes machine a machine? We are talking about functionally I guess.. We do quite depending on machines (computer, vehicle..) most of the time or sometimes.. Who knows, one day a human-like machine will be built, just like in Terminator movie. Anyway, when reading daily news, it seems that some places on earth might already having war-like situation as in Terminator movie, but instead of between machine-human, they are human-human. Does this mean some human (really unknown number of) might not live like a human? ..of unknown or some reasons, maybe. So, what makes us human?