A Letter For Ellen Degeneres From A Bad Richard About Finding Dory's Attachment to Suffering
Dear Ellen Degeneres:
How are you doing? I'm writing you this letter to review your new movie Finding Dory.
How are you doing? I'm writing you this letter to review your new movie Finding Dory.
I find your movie to be a riot absurd fun made more terrific by Ty Burrell's comedic voice timing and everyone out for some "Funny Voices Comedy" should watch you and the gang do whale voices in this spectacular animated film because you guys made me cry laughing, even if the storyline is as murky as the sea trench where Dory was lost.
But allow me to go beyond the knee-jerk reaction of a review by saying that Dory reminds me of the sincerely powerful, transformative effect of Eckhart Tolle's Power of Now to me, the book about the illusion of time, and how this attachment to time is an empirically tested root of depression, head injury, cheating girl/boyfriends, murder of LGBT people, marijuana use and all derivatives of pain.
I don't know if you noticed in your movie, but Dory started to suffer when she out of nowhere went back to the past when she could've just embraced her memory loss and operated via instinct and stayed infinitely memorylessly happy.
Instead, she dwelled on finding her parents and acted on it, ensuing trouble to her, her friends, and the humans in the highway that Dory could've run over dead, which were only resolved by mere luck and could've gotten them all killed if they next time won't be conservative enough to stay away from chasing a memory that is muddled (read Nicholson Taleb's take on Narrative Fallacy and the Bias of Memory and how victims make up stories that they were raped as kids even when they're not) .
Instead, she dwelled on finding her parents and acted on it, ensuing trouble to her, her friends, and the humans in the highway that Dory could've run over dead, which were only resolved by mere luck and could've gotten them all killed if they next time won't be conservative enough to stay away from chasing a memory that is muddled (read Nicholson Taleb's take on Narrative Fallacy and the Bias of Memory and how victims make up stories that they were raped as kids even when they're not) .
What would Dory do if she profoundly learned from the entire search?
It's this: she chose to chase the suffering, which was insanity and not an enlightened choice, and if she didn't want that suffering, she could've forgotten that memory of her parents, a memory that got them in danger in the first place, and she could've just rejoiced in the infinite formless Now empirically moduled in your friend Oprah's favorite book, Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now.
I'm not saying that Dory shouldn't be looking for her parents or that Nemo and his dad were forced to help her (because it's their insane choice to help her) or that Filipinos should stop using Marijuana because that's Level 3 illegal in the Philippines while downloading movie torrents is just Level 1 illegal, even if later on Marijuana will be legal because society's right and wrong changes.
All I'm saying, Ellen, is, Dory's search was deadly and shouldn't have been made and is preventable and might be a product of ego and we could've made it clearer that Dory had an attachment to suffering and she should be told to wake up from it.
Or she should be told that she embrace more her short-term memory loss and forget things more and she should understand that there's joy in being in the now that is not an opposite of sadness.
People will tell us that one should suffer pain to feel joy. After reading Power of Now, I'm no longer sure if that's true because the book's "Watch The Thinker Technique" flipped my viscera and made me realize: one can be happy without the ego-dictated mandatory search for meaning or purpose that's relievable by purchase, sex or any sensory experience. In fact, one is happy, or most happy, even and especially without a search for meaning. Because Nicholson Taleb is right: conscious ignorance and constant meaninglessness can be completely joyous and more freeing.
All I'm saying, Ellen, is, Dory's search was deadly and shouldn't have been made and is preventable and might be a product of ego and we could've made it clearer that Dory had an attachment to suffering and she should be told to wake up from it.
Or she should be told that she embrace more her short-term memory loss and forget things more and she should understand that there's joy in being in the now that is not an opposite of sadness.
People will tell us that one should suffer pain to feel joy. After reading Power of Now, I'm no longer sure if that's true because the book's "Watch The Thinker Technique" flipped my viscera and made me realize: one can be happy without the ego-dictated mandatory search for meaning or purpose that's relievable by purchase, sex or any sensory experience. In fact, one is happy, or most happy, even and especially without a search for meaning. Because Nicholson Taleb is right: conscious ignorance and constant meaninglessness can be completely joyous and more freeing.
Anyway, Finding Dory also reminded me of Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus, where a man is most happy when he doesn't hope and he leaves the past behind, even when he lives in a constant repetition. Hope is also a dangerous joy killer, as paraphrased by Albert Camus from Nietszche. What do you think of that?
Anyway, you can watch Finding Dory this June 16 at SM Seaside City.
Yours,
A Bad Richard
bisayawriter(at)gmail(dot)com
