One Tree Hill
Sep. 26th, 2005 03:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI am definitely checking out the ground-breaking, anarchist "One Tree Hill."
Because, as the below picture would indicate, despite its ostensible premise, it's clearly a subversive, radical show about partner-swapping, group-somes hippies who want to form a love-in to save the world, and reject material goods by sharing a bed and wearing clothes that require the least material to produce. Also, the men clearly engage in manual labor to feel closer to the soil: just look at the arm muscles. And the toned bodies of the women would indicate they toil as well, perhaps in weaving or making tie-die shirts. At the same time, both genders embrace an enlightened "free love" attitude that knows no boundaries of gender or personhood. The fact that all the individuals of this small but praiseworthy commune are young is quite symbolic: this is the way of the future!
What do you mean this ain't so? Just look at the evidence!
Because, as the below picture would indicate, despite its ostensible premise, it's clearly a subversive, radical show about partner-swapping, group-somes hippies who want to form a love-in to save the world, and reject material goods by sharing a bed and wearing clothes that require the least material to produce. Also, the men clearly engage in manual labor to feel closer to the soil: just look at the arm muscles. And the toned bodies of the women would indicate they toil as well, perhaps in weaving or making tie-die shirts. At the same time, both genders embrace an enlightened "free love" attitude that knows no boundaries of gender or personhood. The fact that all the individuals of this small but praiseworthy commune are young is quite symbolic: this is the way of the future!
What do you mean this ain't so? Just look at the evidence!
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:21 pm (UTC)brilliant!!
(and what happened to the other trees? Maybe they're engaged in a reforestation project?)
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:27 pm (UTC)Maybe they're engaged in a reforestation project
I think to the praisworthy denisens of the commune, every tree (and blade of grass) is the One Tree...the original Tree, the Only tree. Every piece of flora has to be saved as if it was the only one, the unique, the last one left standing. And of course, this is the reference to the Tree of Knowledge in the Bible. These people have not partaken of the knowlege of the world and are left uncorrupted in their paradise. Really, the brilliance astounds me!
:P
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Date: 2005-09-26 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-26 07:39 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2005-09-27 03:15 am (UTC)...the sad thing is, that sounds exactly like the papers I usually (and quite seriously) write.
No, like really. My 20-page paper on the concept of Utopia in Hawthorne's "Blithedale Romance"? You just basically summed up half of it.
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Date: 2005-09-27 02:18 am (UTC)But I cannot stop watching it. It's a sickness.
I mean, the OC at least was once actually a good soap. But OTH.
*SHAME*
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Date: 2005-09-27 02:44 am (UTC)On a purly asthetic note, Chad Michael Murray is a hottie.
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Date: 2005-09-27 09:02 pm (UTC)I gag at the show.
They are pretty, though, aren't they? xD
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Date: 2005-09-27 09:18 pm (UTC)