The Alternative Alchemist

Have you seen the movie? If not I highly suggest you do! Its multidimensional. Dont listen to the critics who tell you its all about the next step in CGI. The story line has plenty to offer. Without giving anything away, here are my top 5 themes of the movie.

1) We live in an interconnected biosphere. What's not to get people? Really I dont understand. 1 thing impacts another, and so on and so on. What's so hard about that?

2) When scientists (especially women in the movies) go up against the privitized military industrial complex, expecially when they are in bed with the megacorp, they lose! Or do they???? I'm not trying to draw parallels between our own former VP and the company he was running....I'm sure that was purely coincidental.

3) Read my lips. Privitized military is bad bad bad. ....Only out for a buck, not accountable to anyone, and hmmm strangely very familiar (see #2).....Ahem, anyway.....Repeat after me BAAAAD!

4) The planet will not only fight back she will win! You can call it revenge for poor stewardship if you like. Whatever! But to quote an old commercial from the 80's..."You don't mess with Mother Nature". Especially when she has help from those who know how to "plug in".

5) Never underestimate the power of ten foot tall, highly intelligent, super athletic, nature loving, blue monkey/cat/people. They will kick your ass!

Yesterday I read a blog where the writer suggested that the bluefolk should have been more technologically advanced. They should have kicked the human's ass form the start.  To which I say....Technology is not the only measure of a happy, healthy, intelligent, and advanced society. I say look beyond the trappings of the modern day. Look beyond your keyboard and smartphone. There is a world out there!

What say you??

Most people think of an alchemist as one who changes lead into gold. But that's not the whole story. According to wkipedia: Alchemy (Arabic:al-kimi) (Hebrew:אלכימיה al-khimia) is both a philosophy and a practice with an aim of achieving ultimate wisdom as well as immortality, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties. The practical aspect of alchemy generated the basics of modern inorganic chemistry, namely concerning procedures, equipment and the identification and use of many current substances.

So leaving aside the "lead into gold" part, an alchemist is one who searches for wisdom (you can decide the immortality part for yourself), one who changes things. Hopefully from bad to good or at least a bit better. 

As an alchemist my goal is to take the insanity and chaos, not to mention the mundanity, of life and create something meaningful for myself. Or perhaps rise above is a better way to put it. In other words to transform it in some regard. 

What do you think? Possible? Inpossible?   Let me hear from you.