The Future of Story

Pretty funny the way that Paul Bellini explains so colorfully that story telling is dead. In his article “The Death of Story Telling” he explains that, “We don’t go to the movies to see stories anymore. We go to watch shit blow up. And all we leave the theatre with is shit. Is storytelling dead? Bellini goes on to give ten reasons as to why story telling is dying if not dead. His argument is that the plots of movies in particular are mostly generic. You have a super hero that will in the end defeat the villain. He uses the examples that ghosts are able to move things and can be seen by those that are living. “What is more finite than death?” Bellini believes that television networks are to blame for the downfall of story telling. Gottschall on the other hand has a much grander view and much more optimistic view of the future of story telling. Gottschall sees poetry in the genres of the music that is most popular in today’s societies. Rap and R&B give poetry a new image, an image that is cool, hip, and cutting edge. “Ours is not the age when poetry died; it is the age when poetry triumphed in the form of song.” Gottschall also uses the example of WoW, Call of Duty, and Modern Warfare 3 to explain that story is alive and well in todays youth. It is my opinion that you can take the side of ether of these two men. It would depend on how you define story telling; if you look at the play writes such as Shakespeare, it is my opinion that his brilliance has not been matched, but also that brilliance has not been lost. Take the mind of Spielberg and others who have brought us Star Wars and Avatar. It is my opinion that these are great stories told by brilliant minds. http://gutterbird.com/secrets/?p=1134

The Future of Story

The question is asked is it possible to write a genuinely honest memoir or autobiography? I would say ABSOLUTLY! Here is the thing, do you want it to be entertaining, exciting, and something that everyone would like to read? Most of our lives are mundane and boring. Yes there are exciting times, sad times, times when we are falling in love and falling out of love but those experiences are so short and they seems to be so much time that passes from one exciting moment to the next that in most cases our lives would not be entertaining to others. As human race we have all had the opportunity to experience lose, heartbreak, love, and triumph at one time or another depending on your age. All these experiences draw us together and allow us to have something in common with others. Rather than being sympathetic to someone’s plight, we can be empathetic and understanding because we have experienced these feelings ourselves which gives us the opportunity to feel accepted or to feel that we can contribute to others. It is interesting in this chapter how often Gottschell says “I”. He expresses more frequently in this chapter how he feels the future of story telling will be. Saying things like “we will be doing so in cyber space, not the real world.” Gottschell talks about the introduction of “feelies.” What a scary idea, here you can not only “watch porn” but “feel the smashing lips” scary thought! Gottschell believes that the future will be much like the helm of the “Star Trek Enterprise” it is scary to think that with the technology advancements that we as a species would lose one another, lose the ability to communicate, lose the ability to interact with one another, lose the ability to have sex with one another because we can now experience these things through cyber space! SCARY! We all use our imaginations from childhood into adolescences and into our adult lives. It is my opinion that it is a survival mechanism and that without it we will lose ourselves. Children are encouraged to make believe, to develop their minds and bodies, preparing them for their future. I don’t believe that story telling is going anywhere, but I am concerned with the development of video games, the cyber world, and were these realms may take us. I have decided to go the route of stem cells and the opportunity this research gives the human race. I have used the resources through summon and have come up with these three sources to start. http://www.sciencedirect.com.libproxy.dixie.edu/science/article/pii/S0167779903000039 http://www.sciencedirect.com.libproxy.dixie.edu/science/article/pii/S1526054206000297 STEM CELL RESEARCH; Choice of method for derivation of ESCs depends on the quality of the blastocyte