Okay, so I’m ADDICTED to this trope site
A comment from the ‘World Half Empty’ definition page:
The depiction of the world in Se7en is pretty half empty, but I think the last lines of the film say it best:
Somerset: Ernest Hemingway once wrote, “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.” I agree with the second part.- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldHalfEmpty
A quote from the ‘Creator Breakdown’ definition page:
“There is always an easy solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” —H. L. Mencken- http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorBreakdown
Morrow said,
April 22, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I’ve been thinking along similar lines to the last quote… but it works more like this:
Life is simple, it’s only in our heads that we complicate things… put multiple heads together in the same space and the complications multiply exponentially.
I wonder when life became so complicated for people… whether it was due to the industrialisation of society and the transition to globilisation, which is slowly becoming a reality, and whether it’s as I say, that the more minds you put together in the same space the greater the complications become, not adding with each mind as with a simple equation, but multiplying (and there’s a mathematical term for the multiplication, but I can’t remember it now… something about the relationships between each object and how it doesn’t create one change, with one object being added to two, but much more because of the inter-relationship of each object being changed by the mere existence of the extra object and how this changes in exponential ways, not simple arithmetical ones…)
Does that even make sense… I wonder sometimes at where my head is going, though I often adore the twists and turns of it. I wonder sometimes at my own intelligence… sometimes with wonder, sometimes concern… for both the empty and filled spaces… which starts me thinking on dotted lines, and we won’t even go where that might take me, as I’m rambling already…