Pop Culture: Somebody Else's Daydreams

Drawings are a paper representation of how the mind's eye sees. Theatrical makeup and women's beauty makeup emphasize the same high information features of the face as the pencil and charcoal drawings on the wall of Chauvet Cave.

Comic books and animation are short hand representations of the forms encoded in our brains. They're like a stimulus for active memory and entering into a reverie state. Many other pop culture products follow a similar pattern.

The movie They Live is a dramatization of the outcome of an entire populace that's been immersed in someone else's daydream. Loss of the ability to actively imagine is essentially the same as a loss of will and ability to shape the future.