The article that the content group assigned “Science versus
Art” it reminded me of the movie/book Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
and the quote featured in the movie, “In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him
well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.” The
reason the two connected to me was the ending of the poem and the ending of the
movie produced important realizations when science killed art and three weeks
later, the whole world died of boredom and when Ender killed the species of ants
and realized they weren’t trying to kill them; in both those moments science
and Ender realized that they loved their enemy and merely misunderstood them or
did not appreciate them. I think the root of the problem is bases of
dichotomies in the world. In the poem the dichotomy is science and art, in Ender’s
Game the dichotomy is good and evil. Without the dichotomy one doesn’t have
to view things as opposites but more so as a spectrum. If science and art
viewed science on one end of the spectrum and art on the other end then when
the two intersected it would show that neither is better than the other but
merely different, even sometimes the same. Much like in the play Picasso at
Lapin Agile when Einstein and Picasso came to the realization that even
though they apply it differently they both, “ dream the impossible and put it
into effect,” when they realized this it created a sort of love for each other
and their contributions.(pg.24)Dichotomies are a dangerous aspect of life and
are discussed a lot in thought provoking classes like sociology and women
studies but it seems only the people who take classes like that recognize the
dichotomies operating in society. When dichotomies exist one thing is usually
deemed superior and the other inferior. A prime example in everyday life is
gender the gender dichotomy of male and female acts on society as a whole and
few can recognize it but let me make it apparent; males: strong, breadwinners, leaders,
outspoken and blue(the color)females: fragile, homemaker, followers,
timid/quiet and pink(the color). Now is it more obvious the two are directly opposite
from each other. Now let’s relate it to this unit; science: equations, numbers,
rules and art: canvas, colors, freedom. Now that I’ve made it a dichotomy can
you see that maybe those two can be seen on a spectrum where equations equals a
new color and freedom created new formulas and canvases are used to show rules.
I know this seems far-fetched but look back at the gender dichotomy and think
about women who pull the double-shift as both the breadwinner and the homemaker
or women body builders or stay at home dads. These people described don’t fit
to their dichotomy but if we view them on a spectrum it makes more sense, things
can become intertwined people can have both masculine and feminine qualities and
people who don’t follow the gender prescriptions and proscriptions won’t feel silenced
or weird. All in all when viewing things on a spectrum whether it be science
and art or male or female we can love it or them for how they are and they will
no longer be enemies.
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