Monican Spies on Breen playgrounds

[pasithea]

As with everything I find that interests me, I sometimes dive into it with wreckless abandon.

I saw this article posted by someone about a week ago http://www.livejournal.com/community/monican_spies/44607.html It's an interview with Peter Chung about Aeon Fluxx.

As I expressed in an earlier post, I didn't like Aeon Fluxx when I first saw it. My mind was too poisoned with the misconceptions of reality being raised in Oklahoma had left me with. Seeing it now, I can really appreciate it.

Yet I feel really sorry for Chung. Imagine having created such an abstract and distopian, thought-provoking show only to be swarmed and interpretted by the Mundane. People supposing tedious ideas like Aeon and Trevor being married in a previous life to fit their preconcieved notions of how two people should/must interact. It's pathetic.

I made the mistake of looking at the monican_spies community in the faint hope that at least a few posts would just be people being surreal at one another with absolutely no references to the show, just weird and dystopian but I knew in my heart that this wouldn't be the case.

And I was right of course. Icons and fanart of Aeon Flux, arguements on her bust size and the like. All tedious. Clearly if these people want to think in terms of the show, they should sigh at themselves and realize that they are but Breen children pretending to be monican spies. Blah. I feel dirty for having wasted my time.

Then again, just how mundane am I supposing that I'm better or different from them. That's the very nature of being mundane, isn't it? Everyone believes they're better than everyone else, that things which happen to them are unfair and that the world should be handed to them. we're all so much better than that other person. We're all so unique and have done all of these things that no one else has ever done. That's what makes us all so exactly alike and predictable.

Now I'm going to get back to my animation so that I can keep telling myself I'm different from everyone else.

Comments

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Well, you know, welcome to fandom. The percentage of people who could get past the superficial aspects of my work, for example, and understand what was going on was pretty fractional. It's slightly better this time around, but not by much. I expect to shed a lot of people once the novel is done.

[doctorpinkerton.livejournal.com]

Hm, interesting coincidence... I just re-watched all the original Aeon Flux short films last night, from the box set. This interview explains much about why I found the recent live-action film so unsatisfying, and the original dialogue-less shorts so perfect. Basically the Charlize Theron film violated EVERYTHING that Peter Chung was aiming for in the animation...

[paka.livejournal.com]

Wow, what a great interview! I'd always wondered about why the show had this lack of context, and the last thing I would have expected was that that was intentionally what was going on!

Hm. I'd always thought of Trevor as a villain, only in the context that he's the closest to the traditional definition of one. I'd figured that was an intentional choice to contrast the far more faceless evils out there, and to contrast Aeon, who can't tidily be defined as anything but Aeon. I was right about her, but wrong about Trevor, so that's cool.

Married in a previous life? That's about the last thing I would have ever thought. I can sort of imagine it happening in the show - some sort of machine to regress or progress a person through their avatars until Trevor gets back or forward to an Aeon who's interested in him - but naww, I like the relationship being all about right now more, too. I figured the attraction was based on that Trevor is what Aeon's considered doing with her worldview, but never went that direction, and vice versa.

You are not mundane and here is why.

[plucky.livejournal.com]

It's very simple. When you visited the fan site did you immediately jump into the discussion of her bust size? No, you did not. You reviewed the site, found it esthetically lacking and left. Then you proceeded to post about the site, but not that they were lame or such but that they did not get the point of the whole thing (which was not bust size I assure you). You also expressed sympathy for the creater. That is not a mundane expression. Most people feel pity if they feel anything at all. You put your feet in that person's shoes, walked around a bit, and understood. Lastly but not leastly (:P) you expressed awareness of what the mind a mundane person projects. Most mundane people are not self aware enough to actually examine their own motivations and feel less worthy (when you shouldn't!!!), just run on vague feelings of unease when they are bested and then attempt to make themselves feel better by degrading or demeaning others (See Heinleins description of the behavior of the monkeys in the zoo in Stranger in the the Strange Land, yes I know you don't like him but it is a good example). You, my dear, are keenly aware of who you are, what you enjoy, and what you can do. You also do not think that the world should be handed to you, you relish the taking, the ripping of knowledge and satisfaction of personal pride in your accomplishments. It all boils down to You ARE Unique, deal with and be happy!!!! BOING!!!!