Friday, December 7, 2007

The Gods must be Crazy !??!?

I would like make connections in a list form:

1. In the beginning of the movie, it says that in the bush men's culture, which is the Leavers' society, they have no crime, punishment, judges, bosses, laws, etc. This point was also made in Ishmael too: Events like massive killing, wars, drug addiction, but only the Takers' community.

2. The movie also stated that there is nothing that are bad and evil among the Leavers community. It's the Takers who set up laws, morals saying that: if you abort a fetus is bad, keep the fetus is good. Takers thought they have the knowledge of judging things like the gods do.

3. The part when it compares a day in modern city life and a day of bush men is what we were discussing about last two classes. Takers set up a complicated system, and the system tells when you should do it, and what things you are suppose to do. For example, kids should go to elementary at age seven; we have to take exams to get in college, etc. Leavers can wonder around, go hunting for three ours, and they might spent the rest of the time doing nothing. I personally feel that what the Takers are doing are pointless because we set up things for ourselves to do. Why can't we live like the Leavers do?

4. I would also like to compare the "fights" with in two different communities. After the Leavers found the bottle, they started to have sense of jealousy, hatred, violence, and anger. Takers have wars, using machine guns, bombs to fight with each other. That also creates hatred, violence, anger. But what's the difference between these two societies is that Leavers are able to say "the glass bottle is evil! we should give it up back to the God"; the Takers would say: "keep on fighting until the victory is ours!" This point was also brought in Ishmael--- Leavers are able to admit what does not work for them, and go back to find another way. Takers will never give up even though they are destroying the surroundings and even themselves.

5. There was a part where the bush man went to other people's village and shot a sheep as his food. A boy saw him do that, so the boy called the police, then the bush man was arrested. This scene reminded me of when there is an intersection between Takers and Leavers, Takers are always the one dominates and judge them on good or wrong by their own laws. In Leavers society, there is no laws, no judgments, no one can decide if the thing is right or wrong. This is also parallel to how the Semites were shot and their lands were taken by the Tillers of the soil just because he Tillers of the soil want more land for cultivation.

One thing i found different is that, Leavers also believe there's a God, which is different to what Ishmael is saying.