A brief note on the narratives of perspectives:
Imagine a fleeting time, yes all time is fleeting slipping
into the past from the future. But imagine a time in life when this quality was
accentuated through the fact of joy, the joy of freedom, companionship,
transcendence, perhaps intoxication. An engagement of and with the present,
when the longer narrative of life has been negated through activity without
adherence to goals, this makes the fleeting prescient without conscious
awareness. When the fleeting is extended to breaking point, this is a moment of
both time and place. When in this ‘time space oasis’ everything is magnified
beyond comparison, so that those engaged within it, when viewed from outside of
this area of engagement, seem disproportionately to represent the fleeting.
This is the difference between getting up after a few drinks
and enjoying dancing in a disco at the wedding reception, in contrast to
standing in a field some distance from the marquee where the reception is
taking place, the questionable music drifting on the cool night breeze, viewing
the people with-in from a physical and emotional distance. Viewing them from afar
the people appear fleeting and inconsequential in there preoccupations.
The (small) scale of and perspective on (the party goers)
offer the illusion of in-sight. This view of the events offers a different but
not more objective outlook as being separate misses the point of being lost within
the events of the moment, of-coarse the viewer cannot attain that own
perspective on himself and see his own inconsequential endeavours. Or rather
this view is not attainable via the appropriate geographical distance to
encompass all that is going on. Rather it is attainable through the mindfulness
of the fleeting, to be both in the moment on the dance floor and apart from it
viewing one’s self from the field.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/while_the_band_played_on
