tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564536137041993314.post6249950391086159596..comments2019-02-07T23:16:32.287-06:00Comments on Post Medieval: Gentle Giantstom blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13413834098471441074noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2564536137041993314.post-15125889065526335152014-12-05T20:48:57.766-06:002014-12-05T20:48:57.766-06:00In your post, you pose the question; how did we ge...In your post, you pose the question; how did we get from here (dark picture of a giant), to here? (Roald Dahl’s friendly BFG). The mention of the Industrial Revolution as a catalyst for a vision change was interesting. This revolution not only moved people out of the country into the city, but connected people who may not have interacted with each other previously. Through connection, came an unveiling of the “otherdom” that can occur through lack of interaction. Perhaps a next step to think about is the function that giants perform. In the middle ages, there was not yet a clear idea as to whether giants existed or not. If they did exist, held the same form as human beings just larger, and functioned with the same type of complicated emotional reasoning as us, then they would serve as a threat to our agency as rulers of the planet. Giving Giants brutality through storytelling, as well as excessiveness sexually and otherwise, pushed them closer to the animal and farther away from man. This served as a justification for fear of their animal qualities, fear of their power, and reason for excluding them as candidates for a ruling global race. Over the centuries, we have learned through exploration of the planet that Giants, in scales offered in the Middle Ages, do not exist. We no longer need to fear the discovery of larger, stronger versions of ourselves. Now, the idea of a Giant can remain within the land of fantasy, however, the same distinctions between man and Giant must remain. If a Giant were simply a larger Human, than our “race” would no longer hold the right to power. So, now we have giants that are large, possess some similar emotional characteristics, but remain in reasoning and emotional reactiveness like that of a two or three year old child. We can now use them as protectors of our bodies, as entertainers, as mother hen figures without the fear that they will surpass us intellectually. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07794009913210075076noreply@blogger.com