nuortenavoin · 7.8.2023 · 2 kuvaa

Sukupuuttonarratiivi

/ When I was eleven, I read about an Irish myth / of a battle between humans and elves and elves then leaving this earth / / The same theme was present in my favourite media products of my teenage years: Artemis Fowl books and Hellboy 2 movie. / In the movie, elf prince Nuada says: We'll be gone and the world will be poorer... / / It's a (sort of) beautiful and touching narrative! / I cried gallons watching Song of the Sea. -Elves leaving is a guaranteed tear machine!/ / Recently a thought occurred: It's a story about extinction! / We share this planet with innumerable, fascinating species. We COULD live side by side, in peace and respecting boundaries... / / Instead, human action - not so much "battle", but ignorance and carelessness, drive these others over the brink. With every extinct species a little of the magic disappears. / / Captain Jack Sparrow said it well: The world is the same. It just has less in it. (Another important media product of my teenage years) / So yeah. This story is pretty old. And we haven't learnt a thing. / When in doubt, pop-culture.