The percentage of responders who said they wanted to see Captain Marvel went from the the high 90's to 27% ... citing lackluster trailers and comments from Brie Larson in her Crystal + Lucy Awards speech:
“I do not need a 40-year-old white dude to tell me what didn’t work for him about ‘A Wrinkle In Time.'”
and strident Identity Agenda comments on her press tour.
Hours later Rotten Tomatoes removed the ability for viewers to say they were not interested in seeing the movie ...
The only option was to vote for seeing it.
Rotten Tomatoes did this across the board for all their movies.
Did Disney have a hand in this to protect the only Marvel movie to sink so low in viewers wanting to see it?
It is said that no person is an island unto themselves. That is not true.
We are all islands unto ourselves.
Though we swim in a sea of humanity, we are isolated one from another.
No one can truly know what thoughts churn in the skull of another.
Even if we speak the truest words we know, are we heard?
There are filters of perception over the ears of everyone we meet ... even those who know us best.
Yet, we are a tribal species.
We thrive through healthy relationships;
shrivel without them.
Authenticity is the prime ingredient for healthy connecting to another.
Social Media makes it too easy to edit, filter, pander to gossip, photo-shop the realness from our image.
And to make it all about ourselves.
If we want to be heard, we must first listen.
To truly listen, we must care about the person in front of us.
We must give that time, that energy
only to those who respect
and cherish it back.
In being seen and loved for who they are, how they think, and how they feel,
they learn it is okay to be who they are.
And in reflecting that back to us, we learn the same thing.
I hope you have or had such a friend.
Tell me what you think
of friendship.
We're born alone, we
live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/orson_welles_142014?src=t_alone
We're born alone, we
live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone. Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/orson_welles_142014?src=t_alone
“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow”
- T.S. Elliot, The Hollow Men
Empty rooms in empty buildings range from Congressional buildings to churches. Empty people with empty rooms within total even more: senators who pass more gas than useful legislation; vain professors of philosophy; burned out mothers whose children run wild like weeds. Derek Price, who was a British physicist, historian of science, and information
scientist, discovered something about his peers in academia. He noticed
that there were always a handful of people who dominated the
publications within a subject.
Price found out the following (now called Price’s law): 50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work. In other words:
Only a handful of people are responsible for the majority of the value creation. Academics and intellectual bloggers love to dissect the world from their
leather desk chairs, drinking their bottled water. They love to explain
how their perceived world works.
But we have to live in the real world.
We don’t have the time to study all the 1419 mental models that exist. We still have to put on our clothes every morning and work, so we can
pay the bills. But on the minefield that is life, it would benefit us to think and walk smarter ... and if we find empty rooms within ourselves, to fill them with things and thoughts that matter.
If you’re feeling empty, you’re not alone. Many of us feel empty in
different ways. For instance, you might feel empty because something is
missing in your life, Or the emptiness might stem from slowly abandoning ourselves, not
listening to our own hopes and desires.
You might abandon yourself
unintentionally or unknowingly because you’re striving for perfection or
others’ approval.
WHAT TO DO?
DENIAL IS NOT JUST A RIVER IN EGYPT
Don’t beat yourself up for feeling this way. Don’t try to dismiss or change your feelings. Whatever has happened to hollow you out has happened. A new normal has been established. Learning to live with it will take time.
DO NOT BE A STRANGER TO YOURSELF
Instead of trying to fill the void with drugs, alcohol, TV, computer
games or anything else, look within and spend time with yourself, Carve out time to explore your own desires, fears, hopes and dreams.
This helps you create more meaning in your daily life and your future.
BE YOUR OWN BEST FRIEND
It’s important to be self-compassionate. Whether you are experiencing
difficult relationships, losses or feeling a lack of purpose or meaning, you are worthy of living a fulfilling and meaningful life. Give yourself permission to find a path to it.
LOOK UP - CONNECT TO ANOTHER HUMAN BEING
Walk into a lunch room, down a street -- sit and observe in a mall.
Everyone is looking down into their cell phone's screens. But our spirits are filled when we look into another's eyes and see we matter to them. No wonder then that our cell phone generation feels so hollow. We have succeeded in amassing more and more things, but we have
less and less joy, less and less empathy.
I watch the governor of Virginia say his new proposed legislation will allow
a baby to be fully delivered, and then the mother and doctor can discuss ending the child's life! All the while the two women beside him nod sagely in agreement.
Once out of the mother's body, the child has become this nation's newest citizen and
has the legal right to be protected against silly nuisances like ... murder.