Control is an illusion

hey guys,

So when we first started talking about control in class I thought I knew all about it.
I thought about minipulation, suduction and coercion.
I thought about when a parent trys to control their child. When a girlfriend trys to control a boyfriend (usually succeeding), but as the course went on I became aware that control doesnt exist, and that we are in constaint pursuit of something that can never be attand.
I started to look and see how in so many cases control was the desired outcome that would never be achieved.

Not a word of a lie, when I realized that control was an illusion, a quote from a movie I saw 10 years ago popped into my head. Now that i think about it, this is by far the best control quote I know of.

Dr. Claire Lewicki to Cole Trickel: "Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac. Nobody knows what's gonna happen next: not on a freeway, not in an airplane, not inside our own bodies and certainly not on a racetrack with 40 other infantile egomaniacs."

Days of Thunder - 1990, before Tom Cruz ego got to big lol.


Toughts on control?

Cory Petrie