Love and Information
Tags
English
Cegep/2
Word count
506 words
Reading time
4 minutes
Topics
Knowledge
- Information (raw data) vs knowledge (interpretation of information)
- Love = knowledge
Depression
- Schizophrenic, manic
- <= broken structure <= broken society
Devices
- Characters as symbols
- Universal <= no information beyond their perspective
- Contrast through conflict
- Conflicts
- Ideological conflict
- Personal conflict
- Internal conflict
- Structure: overwhelming information, allusion to social media
- => impermanence felt about modern life
- => information overload
- Ellipsis
- Luxury of information
- Condensed important information => overwhelming
- Leaves room to interpretation
Ch1
Topic: secret or lack of information
- Secret: truth, not secret, is a gap between us; ignorance is bliss
- Census: secrets forced out for the common good; individualism vs. collectivism
- Fan: obsessed stalker wants to know someone's secrets; ignorance is torture
- Torture: silence is torture
- Lab: doing everything to fill holes in scientific knowledge
- Sleep: social media addiction = addiction to have information on others' life
- Remote: satisfaction with ignorance; is all information necessary?
- Shows the negative emotional impact of information overload
Ch2
Topic: revelation of secrets
- Irrational: whether to reveal the truth at all costs
- Ideological conflict: submission vs. revolt
- Affair: revelation ends well; truth brings us closer
- Mother: revelation ends well; secret = metal shackle
- Fired: lack of courage to reveal the truth
- Message: way of revealing truth influences reception
- Grass: dangers and of revealing the truth
- Ideological conflict: submission vs. revolt
- Internal conflict: betray someone you know
- Terminal: truth is comforting
Ch3
Topic: trust in information
- Schizophrenic: complete trust in personal experiences
- Spies: confirmation bias I: more trust towards information we want to be true
- Allusion to 9/11
- Dream: confirmation bias II: interpretation of information in a way that validates one's beliefs
- Recluse: breach of personal privacy; pressure to tell lies
- God's voice: complete trust in a superior being
- The child who didn't know fear: danger of the lack of fear; necessity of fear
- Complete lack of interpretation
- Star: ???
Ch4
Topic: memory (persistence or fading of information)
- Wedding video:
- Savant
Ch5
Topic:
Ch6
Topic:
- The child who didn't know sorry
Ch7
Topic: interpretation or meaning of information
- Chinese poetry: poetic interpretation
- Manic: different interpretation of cultural symbols; ???
- Grief: ???
- Fate: free will
- Stone: special meaning of an ordinary object to someone
- Stone: symbol of difference and violence
- Virtual: meaning of virtual information; valuing existence vs. valuing the feelings it makes one experience
- Small thing: significance of insignificant things
- Last scene - Facts: love and information; rationality of love
- Condensed summary of the play
- ==All facts are wrong== => love is not true
- Love is unanswered => love is the only truth
- Godël's incompleteness theorem: information no one knows if it is true
- Sea anemone: asexual => no love
Ajitani Hifumi