The fact is that basic common sense can help us see through the curtain.

Western culture is weaned on the individual as supreme, but the irony of individualism is the resulting atomized culture leaves us ever more dependent on those larger structures and institutions, churches, government, banking, military, etc. for our connectivity, so we become interchangeable units. Rather than deeply grounded in this world.

We are a node in the network. Organism in the ecosystem. The fact is that as these mobile organisms, this sense of physiology of being somewhat separate from our reality does play a large part of how we perceive the situation, but that is still only surface. We all have roots and branches connecting us, from emotions to nutrients.

We understand ourselves in terms of the energy flowing into the node that is our mind and body, while the world sees us in terms of the energy we project back out into the world. We need to learn to tune it to make the connections that keep both ourselves and our world healthy.

For instance, culture teaches us that good and bad are some cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, but to nature, it's the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental.

That's because it's the function of culture to get us all working as one larger organism. Yet if that organism becomes separated from the larger reality, it dries up and dies, like a scab peeling away.

So it is up to us to not fall at the feet of whatever god is currently being projected on the screen, but to dig down in the dirt at our feet and relate to the life teeming in it.

The light shining through the film, than the images on it.