Three-Body Episode 8

The "Chosen" ones and the "Truth"

WOW ... every episode is so loaded and mind blowing ... it is really like the picture of the sky on Wang Miao's computer screen.

The Chosen Ones - so many people were hit by apples, but Newton was the 'chosen one' ... Pan Han 'chosen' to 'save' the environment ... Shen Yu Fei & Pan Han (and others) chosen by the 'Lord'. Chosen by whom, chosen for what? Seems everybody wants to be 'somebody', to be the 'chosen one'. It reminds me of some of the lyrics from Imagine Dragons' song, "Whatever it Takes" ...
"Falling too fast to prepare for this ... Everybody circling is vulturous | Negative, nepotist | Everybody waiting for the fall of man | Everybody praying for the end of times | Everybody hoping they could be the one ... Hypocritical, egotistical | Don't wanna be the parenthetical | Hypothetical, working onto something that I'm proud of | Out of the box, an epoxy to the world and the vision we've lost | I'm an apostrophe, I'm just a symbol to remind you that there's more to see | I'm just a product of the system of catastrophe | And yet a masterpiece, and yet I'm half diseased | And when I am deceased | At least I'll go down to the grave and die happily | Leave the body of my soul to be a part of thee."

Do you want to know the 'truth' - scientists are after it, journalists are after, some want to know, others don't want to know. WTH is 'truth' anyway ¯\_( ͡` ᴗ ͡´)_/¯ ... in my limited life span I have noticed that one person's truth can and often is another person's lie or fiction. The 'truth' and the pursuit of it, is not unlike looking at the skull in Hans Holbein's painting "The Ambassadors" - if you look at the painting standing straight on it is this weird blob that makes you wonder what the hell is it and why did he 'ruin' the painting with it :-) ... but if you look down at it, from off to the right hand side at say a 2 o'clock position, the funny blob 'turns' into a skull ... and that imagery and play on perspective, gives a whole other meaning to the painting.

Looking at one of Julian Voss-Andrea's sculptures also comes to mind. Voss-Andrea, who has a graduate degree in quantum physics, creates these amazing sculptures that appear solid from one point of view, but as you move around them, the image that you first saw (or you could say the 'truth' of what you first saw with your own eyes or your own experience) seems to dynamically move and change until eventually, you reach a viewing position where, what was once 'solid' or substantial, is no longer visible ... so what is it ... which perspective is the right perspective ... are they all correct at the same time ... it is a wave or a particle :-)

Pan Han and his environmental stance - species and habitat loss due to rampant increase and consumerism of the human population. If you 'play out' his take on the world, humanity is a form of cancer to the earth ... its exponential growth depletes resources, annihilates species and habitats and in so doing destroys the synergy of eco systems that have taken eons to form. How much is 'too many' people for the 'good' of the planet?

There is so much to think about in this series and it is all masterfully woven together. Of interest too is the supreme arrogance and grandiosity displayed by the Turkey 'chosen ones', who have no qualm at elevating themselves over all the 'misguided' turkeys and dispensing out 'righteousness' action ... 😒 history is replete with these kinds of sanctimonious characters but 'they' don't seem to realise that 😄. The issues and concepts raised in this series are loaded ... but I still don't understand why the scientists are ending their lives ... it doesn't make sense to me at all.

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