I watched Donny Darko for the first time just there - my take on it was that it was either a dream, or he completed time travel.
Made me think of the issue of power and who has it. Coming from a slightly different angle of theory I agree with Foucault that power IS everywhere, cocacola has power over rolla colla and teachers have power over pupils. He said that truths are power, but I disagree. I believe truths are subjective. I don't mean truths as in left is left, I mean ethics and morality. A persons mind is mainly molded by what they experience and are taught. If a person is only taught to murder then that is there ultimate truth and their maximum ethic yet the morality is out of their hands and into a more collective view that murder is wrong. So really what I have to conclude is that morality is not power or a truth unless challenged by something with less significance. Living in the world that we do today - morality is challenged every day by every one. If morality is collective then ethically we could all be living in Persian fur so long as we could have all afford it and saw nothing wrong with it back in the day. Because if no-one criticized it then there is no issue. Hello democracy.
In saying that, we got our morals from Disney and our parents whereas other countries don't raise children with parents or Disney so there might always be a challenge to ways of living so long as there are alternatives. Though not everyone in this country was born with Disney or a family. Some were but rejected both. This intercomplexety is confusing for me at 7am so to simplify; if we had the same morals built into us at birth why are there random crimes of hate against strangers for no known purpose? It's not answerable. Everything has purpose so we can only assume that everyone is different. And this massive push for individualism in the 21st Century is exactly why we are seeing a diffusion in politics, and everything around us. It's OK to be yourself.
Back to this net of power that has everything in it. Baudrillard said power only exists so long as there is something disrupting something else. The Sun has power over the Earth. But also linguistics. The way you say things can show power - even if they aren't truths. But due to each persons idiosyncrasy most things that aren't absolutes are interpreted differently as we didn't all watch the Lion King at the exact same time, you're individual life has shaped everything around you. Even if you are multi-dimensional, you don't perceive the same knowledge as the next person. (Absolutes are fundamentals such as 1+1=2)
Essentially what I've written here might make no sense to you, but it does to me, and if it made sense then maybe we have a different interpretation on it.
Either way we were both brought up into a Western, Capatalist, 'democratic', one party ruled nation amongst other things so we would have similar interpretations like separate pieces of blue tack walking along pavements picking up different bits - maybe.
