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"But it's good": finding value in Twentynine Palms.(Critical Essay)

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From: CineAction
Date: 20050322
Author:Wilcox, Jason

 
"Everything exists, nothing has value." 
--Mrs Moore in E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) 
 
"In sum, then, the disciplines have simply rendered themselves incapable 
of approaching the problem of values because it is only when you get a 
thoroughgoing view of the ensemble of man in his full field of social 
relationships that value judgments become possible and compelling." 
--Ernest Becker (1) 

1. "Value" and Its Contexts

We live in a time in which western civilization has lost its overriding faith in its central Christian myth, by which meaning and value were ...

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