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this is a nuanced topic. as much as this meme is trying to be intelligent, it’s just as dumb as what it’s critiquing.
you learn to think from books, but film and TV exercises that thinking. in film you’ll find symbolism and metaphor and meaning, intentional or not.
being able to extract that is intelligence, not raw facts. americans love to boast about how educated they are and about the virtues of education, but why are there millions of users of goodreads and letterboxd and few can write a coherent paragraph about a book they read or a film they watched?
it’s because of this type of braindead thinking–it’s all about imagination!!! imagination is great, but it’s really about thinking; it’s about not being stuck in thought patterns that lead nowhere.
Yes the symbolism in One Man, One Jar cannot be denied.
And each one a symbol of the other. Perhaps we are all just broken vessels.