#Arrival is such an awe-inspiring, amazing, timely film. Worthy successor to 2001. For an era of ubiquitous comms & little understanding.
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I was younger than 20 when I read Samuel Delany's Babel 17, an eloquent novel featuring the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Literary blew my mind.
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Whether the theories they encompass are right or wrong, literary creations like Arrival (Ted Chiang's story) & Babel 17 expand understanding
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One thing Arrival got dead right is the ancient human urge to go to war with what they don't understand. The old demons are us.
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I totally understand the "reptilian" MO too, in case things get hairy, but it's usually our warlike civilization that makes them so.
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