If asked I will say it is The Journal's fault, but here I go with my take of Wall-e. I'll make it easy to you so I won't praise it. We both know you will love it. So... is it too much to ask "Why did Pixar used magic at the climax?" Please, my friends, DO NOT read this entry unless you want spoilers.
I went with dulce to see that movie. To me, it was kind of sad that pixar went the easy route. Let me point you the scene. Here's EVE maniacally rebuilding Wall-e when she founds he is now just a Waste Allocation Load Lifter. It is touching. He doesn't have a soul, if you replace the brain, you replace him. Of course, I rooted for a happy ending. Pixar went for the spark. A magic charge who somehow restores wall-e's personality. WHY? Couldn't they make it so that EVE teaches him how to live as he did it to her? Of course not, we have 5 minutes to close the movie. And deep down we wouldn't believe that was the real wall-e. The real one cared for a roach. This new embodiment may not. "We need a spontaneous connection that trascends logic. Love must win." I can hear it.
Bullshit. EVE could have connected the old memory to this new chipset setting wall-e away from the spec. That would still be love, just not sparky. However dulce didn't thought the same. "It was already stretching credibility to see robots falling in love. The spark is just the same." I have to differ. I think this Pixar movie brings an unintended message. Free will means not following your directive. Wall-e wasn't self aware because of old clips. On the contrary, because he had personal desires, he watched that movie. Wall-e grew a self the day he disobeyed his function. The day he said "This is not garbage, this has value." BNL programmed his kind for one task, "Clean this mess". His merit is in making his own destiny in a world where others see no paradise. (And in doing so, inspiring others to take charge of their own.)
EVE got the same treatment. Why did she changed? How could they love? I think those questions are entwined. Anything that has predilections and enough complexity should be able to fall in love. That's my thesis. Of course that lowers the barrier, and people think that makes love something cheap. However, these are the same people who think without a heaven-granted goal, life is meaningless so go figure. Falling in love must be realizing that both share the same basic path. That contrary to what is seen, deep down it is the same road. EVE's nature was finding a good environment to raise kids (how femenine). EVE must have thought of that place as a static one. Search this, then the next and so on until you find it. Wall-e's lesson is that you grow your place. That epiphany must be the key to EVE finding value in that messy robot. And once you find worthiness outside your directive, all bets are off. EVE could dance, something totally useless to her function.
Well, enough over analization. Life's good so keep moving.

I want to blog. About what? There's tons of topics, nothing really about my life. It's a thinking time of the year, after all. My main concern is how many of us are becoming fixated on what we "are". So many years of struggling to make a stand on something, to make life meaningful and all that crap have confused all of us a lot. I mean, people actually believe that they are what they believe :P So, with time, they will close the case. No further evidence will show them if they are wrong. It's hard to believe I'm so special as to not be like all the rest in that aspect. Being so sure about anything as to leave no space for doubt, is most certainly a proof that we are wrong and blind. Probabilities are against us. People through history are almost always wrong. They got to act with a simplistic model of life...

Ok, so the previous paragraph is a clunky experiment. I want to know how many read it as if it only expresses what is in bold.

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Julio believes that real friendship is for the rest of your life. I disagree. I see relationships as living things. Julio has a static perspective of every primordial thing I can conceive. I mean, to him, happiness is a frozen moment in time of having everything you want. That's why he doesn't think it's possible. Real friendships die, as anything in this universe. It's wishful thinking that you're set if you found a real connection. Will this petty argument change how julio see friendships? I wish the answer could be yes. Am I so certain about this living meme? Will I ever accept a static view of people? What's the odds that I'm right?

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Recently I've changed my opinion on: abortion, gun control and piracy. For almost all my adult life, I held a position. I wouldn't kill a baby. That was my argument. There's no baby in the first 3 months. Once again Plato is fooling us. A bunch of cells don't constitute a human being. They might one day, but that won't make you fertilize each and every sperm, right? You are not harming anyone if there's no nervous system at all. It can't even feel pain.

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Camilo says it isn't the same to buy piracy as to approve it. I disagree. Isn't your expenses a direct expression of your will? Reyna said that it isn't. That you may approve it, without a financial shadow. That, I can agree. I'm a Geolibertarian, if you must know. Can't imagine a real argument against having weapons if you want.