- Jan
- 26
- 2010
blog post: conflict
1:38PM by Brandon McCormick | Cetagories: Uncategorized
We crave conflict in movies. It’s one of the fundamentals of storytelling. Without conflict a story is just a series of banal events happening in a sequence. Thanks, but I’d rather watch fungus grow.
I believe the reason we love conflict in stories is because we’re hard wired for it. It’s that basic impulse that makes us gravitate towards drama with friends or taps on the brakes to rubberneck a car accident.
We have such a need for conflict that when it’s not present, we go looking for it. If we can’t find it, we make it ourselves. Especially in a time when most of our conflicts are taken away from us by a modern and technologically advanced society, we don’t need to strive for survival as we once did.
There is a reason we are the wealthiest and most comfortable generation of all mankind, yet the suicide rate is at an all time high.
Medication and distractions fill our cultural ethos.
It’s a lack of conflict in our lives. If we don’t have something to fight for, to strive for, we fight one another. Our spouses, our friends, our coworkers, our addictions. Just give me that conflict fix.
What if our desire for conflict is a good thing, what if it’s what makes mankind so incredible. What if the problem is that we’ve forgotten what to fight for. Gone are the days of knights and quests, but that does not mean the need for them has disappeared.
There is much need for conflict in our world. Social justice, the holding back the hand of the oppressor demands conflict. It demands for someone to stand up and put a stop to it. We have families to fight for, not against. Friends who need defending. Honor and redemption that must be had at the cost of sacrifice. We’ve lost sight of these things and have narrowed down to the drivel of fighting for more money at work and our place in the world.
What are you fighting for, instead of fighting against? Ask yourself what your energies are going towards. Join the good fight. One of the many causes Whitestone is involved in is the fight against human sex trafficking in our community and in the world. If you live in the Atlanta, we encourage you to join in this year’s Lobby Day.
You can find more information about it here.
You’ll see more information from Whitestone on this subject in the very near future, but in the meantime, if you’re local, we expect to see you out there.
Embrace the conflict. Fight the fight.
