Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty


In the Sleeping Beauty, Beauty seems to represent the standard beauty of all women. At the same time, this standard of beauty dominates other aspects of beauty with its elements.


Beauty is actually the colonisation of discourse. Because what counts as beauty and what doesn’t is determined by the hegemonic group within a society, the voice of the other group in the society with less power on discourse doesn’t have its say about what beauty is.

The Beauty of Sleeping

The Beauty of

Sleeping

Dibrini loves all Waltz Disney’s classic Cartoons, especially for the Sleeping Beauty. It gives Dibrini a different dimension about sleeping.

In this story, the Sleeping Beauty, sleeping gives a calm, still, and almost dead atmosphere. Sleeping seems to be time-freezing because when things fall into a sleep, one of the visible states of sleeping is being still. For example, it a clock sleeps, it tends to stop ticking. In the Sleeping Beauty, when Beauty falls asleep as designated to, the whole town falls asleep with her. Birds stop singing, cars stop running, and all the guards fall asleep at his duty. Even day suddenly turns to night.

On the contrary, the Dibrinian sleep is different from that of Beauty’s. In the Dibrinian sleep, things flutter multidirectionally in gravity-less space in an inert motion. Imagine an egg yolk floating in and among its transparent white, there seems to be a boundary for that free movement which actually performs no imprisonment on its freedom.

When things fall into a Dibrinian sleep, they are NOT still. Rather, they move. Their movements, moreover, are uncontrollable. Things in their sleep—unconsciousness, unnoticibility, invisibility—even shift, transit, transform, metamorphose. But most of all, IN and FROM their sleeps, things EMERGE. Things are given birth to. They start at that very moment come in contact with the world. From nowhere to somewhere. From nothing into something. In the very sleep of theirs.

This image of sleep is different from what Dibrini has experienced from Sleeping Beauty. Dibrini likes both interpretations of sleep. But now Dibrini falls into wonder. Sleep is full if beauty in and of itself. But is that beauty, and therefore the sleep itself, desirable?

Sometimes, Dibrini feels things force themselves to reach the fathom of sleep as though the sleep was so undeniable; but often Dibrini sees that things always try to wake up though they are unable to.

REALITY

REALITY

Is everyone living in the reality?

There are two types of reality found juxtaposed: “the real reality”, shaped by the use of language, becoming “the media reality” perceived by the publics. Language upon culture has a “decisive influence”. This influence determines our judgement on similarities and differences of things

The language use could create media reality or “hyperreality” termed by Deetz or “hypertelia” termed by Baudrillard. Human language, the world human live in and are unable to get out of, actually calls for reinterpreting what is known or believed about the world in order to make sense of the words; Mr Miller claims that “it challenges your pedestrian assumptions about reality”.

The use of language in this way alters, rather than just challenges, the reality regardless of what the real reality would be. This is how the media reality is intentionally created. If public communication is paired with the use of rhetorics and metaphors, to Miller’s assertion that “languages are not static; they grow and change to suit the needs of those who speak them”, a question on its effect on (the real) reality is worth putting forward. It is whether or not the reality—whichever perceived as reality—is static, whether reality can be changed and shaped to “suit the needs” or preference of those who use language to shape it, and even whether what we call “reality” ever exists.

Well now, what’s your answer?

Human Essence

Human Essence

What counts as being human? What do human do which non-human don’t? What do human possess which non-human don’t? These classifications may be human distinctions over other creatures.

But according to the Importance vs Unimportance Theory, human essence seems to include almost everything, no, it does include everything. Without other creatures and their essences, human cannot distinguish their essence from others’. Here, it can be said that human being is different in referring to other creatures.

Actually, human is NOT different from other creatures in terms of being world “creatures”. However, if we say human is different from other creatures in this world, then every creature is different from one another.

Question: is human really different?