I've made a series of posts of my musings about a very important rift we ought to see in our society. That rift is one which lies between those people who see the world as being something which is self-evident, who are just going to do the best they can for themselves pursuing their own endeavors within that world on the one hand - and on the other hand, those who see the world as being something which is like a puzzle which needs to be figured out using reason.

With different blog posts, I have put different labels on these two groups, and I have looked at this thing from several different angles.

This film is one thing that one of my college-age friends gave me to look at a while back, after kind of a long series of conversations where I was being a bit overbearing in how I was trying to give him advice:

He told me that this was how he felt about humanism... more specifically, this is what he felt happened to people who tried to follow the teachings and advice of those who call themselves humanists. And this is a very important thing to see, I think. I have come to the conclusion that people who care a lot about their society, and want to help it, by sharing their insights and acting in a caring fashion might actually be causing disruptions to the social dynamic around them. I wrote a little about that here.

And this film would show how that might occur - even the kindest, gentlest, least didactic and least overbearing way of giving advice, might not work when someone tries to put it into practice.