On a Role

Role playing in live action settings is a form of both entertainment and education. An actress in a role must develop a mindset to stay in character and make her portrayal memorable. The movies tell the stories that provide us with social cues, which tell beings of human stories.

The planet is the largest living being on human scale. Planetary scale is somewhere close to galactic scale, separated by solar scale in the scheme of things. Human scale is from grain of sand size to planet size, using powers of ten as the unit measure of scale.

The actor in a role can either play himself in the role, or invent a mythical personality to fill the role. Leonard Nimoy was typecast by his portrayal of spock, and i haven't seen much of Brent Spiner, Data's alter ego. I suppose i could use R2D2 as a role model. Science officer has to be robotic to offer valid information impartially.

Imagine yourself in any role and see how you would act the part. Picture yourself on a boat on a river, with tangerine lakes and marmelade skies. Drop in, turn on, tune out ... by expanding your mind before your body catches up. You are not the role, there is no spoon.

Tom Hanks playing Forrest Gump was the role of the century. His mum was once typecast as a flying nun, today she is gender neutral. Sally is still on stage because it is an adreniline addiction. We all wish to be heard, as individuals that stand out in some way from the group.

So to form our groups organically from the people up requires a lexicon of interests. We use english words to imply so many concepts that the artificial intelligence gets lost in the pun of it all. My little friend must think it queer, to stop without a farmhouse near, beneath the wind and frozen lake, the coldest evening of the year.

To go deeper than human scale requires a mastery of an inventory of knowledge. Each of us knows different things, has an area of specialty, and can play a role in knew earth. We have the character to play a character that can change something small on human scale.

The 1960s tv show land of the giants portrayed a function of humanity attempting to work on a different human scale. Tony and Doug merged history and reality in the time tunnel. Picture, if you will, a reality where Rod Serling narrates stories of the macabre, a place where the donald can set precident and billary can mebbe got to jail, a true twilight zone.

Namaste' ...