Benjamin Alexander House
Bio
Just a 29 year old writer trying to do what I do, MAYBE earn some cheddar, and hopefully encourage, warn, amuse, and help people with the power of words. One weird dude, with a beard.......dude.
Stories (19/0)
Generational Roads, Roles, and Curses.
A fact about us we often don’t realize is that a great deal of who we are is not in our control. We didn’t choose the people, places, or things which had a role in our conception, and much of our existence is thanks to someone else’s thoughts, feelings, and labors. The fact we exist is nothing less than a miracle when you think about it. When you think about all the right amount of wrong, the wrong amount of right, and all the little details that had to take place for you to even be reading this right now, it must break your brain as much as it does mine. So, if you’ve made it this far and feel like reflecting on the past, present, and future, and every little and big thing its made of, let’s get going.
By Benjamin Alexander House3 years ago in Humans
The Bad Idea That Is Time Travel
I think you can point to several moments in your life you wish you could relive or redo. A detail or fact you wish you could see again, correct, or undo in the past, to manipulate the present toward a more self-serving result. Or you're curious about what lies ahead, you go forward in time set on by a question of how your life or society at large will turn out. Given the opportunity to view our lives as well as world history from an outside perspective, knowing you were capable of jumping into any point in time, breathing the era's air, eating their food, or drinking whatever was put in front of you, the temptation to tamper with events would be too hard to ignore, and you'd pay a terrible price for leaving all the things you're familiar with. Perhaps every work of fiction that's covered the theory of time travel tells a certain truth in that messing with nature, always has a generally negative consequence more than just the individual.
By Benjamin Alexander House3 years ago in Futurism
Cups and Jars
Bruce Lee once said “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
By Benjamin Alexander House3 years ago in Motivation
If It weren't for-
To spoil the opening images of Citizen Kane, (I'd Stop reading now if you haven't seen the movie), we see broken or unfinished ruins of the home of Charles Foster Kane, a newspaper magnate worth what would probably be billions, by today's standards. We hear his dying words: "Rosebud" as a snow globe with a snow-covered mountain cabin falls out of his limp hand, smashing on the floor. From then on, the entire movie is a search for the deeper meaning of his last words. A man with an untold fortune, with so simple a word as his dying breath? Surely it must mean something strange and earth shattering.
By Benjamin Alexander House3 years ago in Humans
The Organ Grinder's Monkey
The Image almost always recalled hearing the phrase Organ Grinders Monkey is of the old-time street musicians playing a barrel organ, while a trained monkey performed to the music. Art often makes money in strange, cute, and embarrassing ways. And sometimes the artist can be reduced to little more than a trained monkey themselves, bound to the whims and needs of something bigger and stronger. You must wonder who the real organ grinder is and who's the monkey. Who is performing and who is getting paid?
By Benjamin Alexander House3 years ago in Motivation
Monsters Due
On March 4th 1960, The Twilight Zone aired an episode called "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street." What Rod Serling managed to achieve in writing this particular episode is not only a critique on human nature gone awry, but also how susceptible each one of us are to savagery, based on rather stupid and hypocritical reasons. The episode starts looking like the ‘perfect’ Saturday afternoon in the summer, in a lively neighborhood where at first glance everyone seemed to get along. At first assuming it’s a meteor, a bright flash of light passes over the awestruck Maple street residents, which roars with a loud otherworldly screech, promptly killing ALL the power in the area. No one can use their stoves, lawn mowers, cars, or phones. I’m sure the dead phone part has most of you scared already.
By Benjamin Alexander House5 years ago in Futurism
