OK, so now there's a shock here because essentially in some sense,

the entity that's going to provide the solution to this very complex problem has arrived on the scene.

But it's quite damaged.

First of all, it's been speaking improperly.

Right? So that's an adolescent representation.

So it brazed a lot of nonsense.

And it's been corrupted in a variety of ways.

And so to some degree, what that means is that as you mature,

and you're moving away from your mere, mere net status,

your interaction with society, like Rousseau said,

corrupts you in all sorts of ways.

I mean, you're participating in that corruption, but it still happens.

But in the representation in the movie, the truth of the matter is,

it doesn't matter if you've been corrupted to some degree,

as long as you haven't absolutely sacrificed your capacity for true speech and vision.

So you know, that's a pretty hopeful message because Pinocchio is by no means a perfect entity.

But he might be good enough.

One of the things that disturbs me constantly about ideological representations of the world,

broadly speaking, is that their fundamental danger is that they always contain

a two-convenient theory of evil and malevolence.

And for me, any theory that locates the fundamental problem of evil,

somewhere other than inside you is dangerous.

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