Films and Levels – 3. Humans and Angels - страница 5

They do not deny the need for role-playing systems. For example, «to water rose and to clean land from weed baobabs» – these are reasonable roles. However, there are roles that have lost meaning («lamplighter» in the book), have closed themselves egoistically («ambitious man»), some are useful at some extend («king as elevator operator»). There are a lot of destructive roles in the world (teacher-tyrant, greedy capitalists).

The authors suggest people-6 to analyze roles around… and maybe even come up with new roles now missing. So the girl came up with two new roles: (1) to visit the pilot in the hospital, give him flowers and the tale as a book; (2) to tell the schoolmates about the boa constrictor and the elephant and – perhaps – about other book characters.

The authors believe that the world is built of roles. But we need to be able to analyze roles, to reject some old, to add some new. A sort of a rebellion on the knees.

Unfortunately, there is no good solution for this problem. We have too few degrees of freedom. Mom is tied to the office, girl is tied to the school, the pilot is tied to the bed in hospital (We could hope he will not die soon).

In Australia, in a small town on the banks of an ocean, lives a family: little Mary, her father and mother. Unfortunately, they do not communicate with each other and everyone lives in one’s own little world.

Mary goes to school, but in school life is not much better. Accidentally, being with her mother in the post office, Mary discovers a directory that lists addresses different people living in the USA. A piece of random page of this book happened to be jammed in her hand.

The deficit of meaningful communication Marie feels like a personal problem, that’s why she decides to write a letter to a stranger, whose address was in her hand.

The stranger happens to be an old fat man with Asperger’s syndrome. Correspondence starts. After that… go and see it by yourself.

Max has 1 (gluttony) and 2 (cyclic time), and 6 and 7 (he has logics, he reads serious scientific books and shows non-trivial wit).

Mary has 3456 (scientific mind, but without creativity and paradoxes). Parents have 1245 (and have no signs of 3, 6, 7 and 8). Her husband has 2345.