Screenplays

I have just realised what I am trying to write about in my screenplays.  This is not of great interest to the readership, but as this is the nearest thing I have to a journal, I shall jot it down.

Langley (the protagonist) is the razor edge on our relationship to the future.  We are throwing away the future - failing to agree, failing to work hard, failing, failing, failing.  Langley puts a face on that. When he kills, he kills futures, happinesses for humanity that will now never arrive.  And he does it so that things can stay the same.  The last will not be first on his watch.

We are throwing away chances because we can't believe any of them, because they are all a confusion, a superposition, of mutually exclusive realities, and the only way we know to resolve this is to disbelieve them all.  Nature is over, but we can't find a well-governed nature we can believe in, much less tolerate.

This is why I think some belief in a God as the actuality of possibilities, the something of which the universe is the nothingness (not-ing). Something that keeps the future open and prevents the collapse into nihilism is needed.  And it has to have a moral character and authority, to tell us what should become, what we ought.