The story of the end of the story

Without mystery, without curiosity and without the form imposed by a partial answer, there can be no stories—only confessions, communiqués, memories and fragments of autobiographical fantasy which for the moment pass as novels.

---J.Berger.

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“I found it unwatchable and false, boring and self-referential, a world of ideal people who don’t behave as humans but more like machines.”

 The plots let them defer responsibility for the fate of the world to demigods; the way they are shot – lots of signposting, everything carefully controlled – offers a false sense of omniscience.

"Superhero movies take away mystery because there’s nothing in the shadows. All is revealed. And that’s not how our relationship to the world is.."

"Likewise the incredible amount of imagery we’re producing and the fact so much is virtual. We are building a sort of narcissistic image of ourselves through social media that means we perceive people as potential angels."

--Laszlo Nemes, The Guardian.

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"My guess is that the kind of thinking we are, at last, beginning to do about how to change the goals of human domination and unlimited growth to those of human adaptability and long term
survival is a shift from yang to yin, and so involves acceptance of impermanence and imperfection, a patience with uncertainty and the makeshift, a friendship with water, darkness, and the earth."

--Ursula le Guin.