There's an episode of Magnum where at the beginning he's talking about rainbows. Actually he talks about rainbows a lot. This one he's sitting on the beach with a date telling her about how his high school science teacher explained what a rainbow is but missed the magic of what a rainbow is subjectively. Personally I see art on both sides of that coin. Magnum was always looking for a rainbow connection. That was the genius of Magnum. He has a strong feminine core that balances out his male outer layers.
What I hate about the story of the apple is that it says that people are evil and if they knew any better they'd be ashamed of themselves. You can't really help expressing what you are. The art of your frame of reference will leak out of you fingerprinting everything about you and everything you do. It doesn't matter how old you are. If anything the older you get the more you try to manage your identity. Innocence then can be seen as a function of how little impulse control you have or perhaps how little you care about others view your identity. At once very cool yet standing on the razors edge between innocent and sociopathic.
T.C. was a great character too. The did a lot of work later in the series to establish his identity. I like that he didn't drink, not because he was a recovering alcoholic or a muslim or something like that, just because he didn't like it. I've totally met people like that in life. He loved the ballet and knew all the great dancers by name and when they we're on the show he treated them like rock stars. He had a strong connection to his community through coaching little league and acting as a mentor. And he would get pissed at Magnum. This is important. Everytime the main character has a friend that helps him out the friend will act put out but he'll do it anyway. T.C. will essentially tell Magnum to fuck off. In fact most of the time Magnum has to con him by saying like we need the chopper cause that woman or child is going to die or promising that he'll pay for gas as soon as the client pays. Sometimes the client will pay cash and Magnum will get happy and then T.C. will rip the cash right out of his hand. Nice...
What I hate about the story of the apple is that it says that people are evil and if they knew any better they'd be ashamed of themselves. You can't really help expressing what you are. The art of your frame of reference will leak out of you fingerprinting everything about you and everything you do. It doesn't matter how old you are. If anything the older you get the more you try to manage your identity. Innocence then can be seen as a function of how little impulse control you have or perhaps how little you care about others view your identity. At once very cool yet standing on the razors edge between innocent and sociopathic.
T.C. was a great character too. The did a lot of work later in the series to establish his identity. I like that he didn't drink, not because he was a recovering alcoholic or a muslim or something like that, just because he didn't like it. I've totally met people like that in life. He loved the ballet and knew all the great dancers by name and when they we're on the show he treated them like rock stars. He had a strong connection to his community through coaching little league and acting as a mentor. And he would get pissed at Magnum. This is important. Everytime the main character has a friend that helps him out the friend will act put out but he'll do it anyway. T.C. will essentially tell Magnum to fuck off. In fact most of the time Magnum has to con him by saying like we need the chopper cause that woman or child is going to die or promising that he'll pay for gas as soon as the client pays. Sometimes the client will pay cash and Magnum will get happy and then T.C. will rip the cash right out of his hand. Nice...