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We are familiar with “theater”, where beauty triumphs over any ugly evil. This pattern allows even sad stories, or the so-called “tragedies”. And we are also familiar with “horror movies”, where ugliness triumphs over any fragile beauty. What we don't understand is the “Neo approach” of the Matrix film Resurrections (Matrix 4), where the main character is saved, only to be shown tortured, then saved again, then forced to kill himself a few times, then saved again, then gifted with a cancerous growth on his neck, then saved again! I mean, what is this nonsense?! It's a whole new genre where the authors are not scaring us with their characters on screen, but with the sheer “freedom of story construction” the authors possess.
We can talk a bit about “the two gifts”, no evil and good. When we are at home, we are interested in “zeroing evil” (safety comes first, always). When we are outside, we are interested in “increasing good” (the joy of life, not the number of dollars). We have nothing to complain about “no evil”, except maybe that, at home, we are being swamped with “evil” that we cannot solve on time, and we end up tortured. But our main complaint is about “good”, we simply don't see what society and anthropology offer us to celebrate the grandeur of human life. In America, the elite are entertaining themselves with restaurants, yachts and cocaine parties. In France, the place to go for luxury goods, we find so many foreign Arabs and Africans, so many poor people, so many “projects” neighbourhoods. As a whole, our venture into the wild brings disappointment, because even the exotic geisha and samurai turn out to be only prostitutes and thugs. We stay at home, and we are forced by boredom to go out and explore. We look for “good”, even for God, only to find sexuality and venereal diseases. Then we return back home, and until our death, we are crippled by complications of a chronic venereal disease. That's the human condition in three sentences. So sad.
In Bulgarian, there is the expression “пращя от здраве”. What is the equivalent expression in English, “overflowing with health”? Somehow, it doesn't sound “native”. Is this understandable in English, to be so healthy, to be and feel so strong, that life becomes a breeze? It's interesting that even Christianity is not buying into the concept. Jesus can resurrect the dead Lazarus, but he never made anyone so healthy they could move a mountain, or at least acquire the necessary enthusiasm to try it. Interesting! Our language might contain more wisdom than all worldwide religions.
Consider a child with a toy soldier. This is a perfectly sustainable situation, if the gods never intervene. But if they do, the child will grow up, and the toy soldier will start to feel like a shallow infantile interest. The young adult starts asking himself, what else is out there?
Consider a grown up man with a great talent that makes him feel life is like wonderful magic. This is a perfectly sustainable situation, if the gods never intervene. But if they do, the man will be confronted with the “dark side” of his magical arts. Some newcomers will start unexplainably to want his demise as a specialist, businessman, and a person. The man is forced to retreat home to his parents, in his small hometown, far away from his visible and invisible enemies.
What can we conclude? We are fine, no matter where we are, at home, or at the top of the social ladder. But this is only if the gods are secretly on our side, sympathising with our “eternally sustainable life”. The moment they lose interest in us, we are made either "Incomplete" or “Unsound”, and we need to make some serious life changes. Sometimes, we are not allowed even that, and we are simply being tortured. The gods point at horror movies, and have a perfect explanation that now, this is “selling”, so this is what they are “producing”.
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