I watched Lawrence of Arabia tonight. As I watched, I increasingly wanted to visit the places where the movie was filmed. I wanted to be the places where T.E. Lawrence once tread.
Then I realized that I can never go there; that the West has manipulated the Middle East irreparably, and that these things are being accounted for.
Because of people like T.E. Lawrence, I can never go to the places he went. Praise of Lawrence makes his passions, the region he did his supposedly greates work in, more worth pursuing, more worth studying, more worth visiting. Those places, however, cannot be visited. They are alien to Westerners, because we ruined them; because Lawrence's work was irrevocably damaging.
It's a very tight metaphor for everything that's wrong with nonrenewable resources, and nonrenewable welcomes.
Then I realized that I can never go there; that the West has manipulated the Middle East irreparably, and that these things are being accounted for.
Because of people like T.E. Lawrence, I can never go to the places he went. Praise of Lawrence makes his passions, the region he did his supposedly greates work in, more worth pursuing, more worth studying, more worth visiting. Those places, however, cannot be visited. They are alien to Westerners, because we ruined them; because Lawrence's work was irrevocably damaging.
It's a very tight metaphor for everything that's wrong with nonrenewable resources, and nonrenewable welcomes.
goob:
heh muppet cum.