The headless winged everyman of Vlassis Caniaris's Big Swing (1974) recalls both Icarus and Bud Cort's mad character in the film Brewster McCloud (1970), whose defiance of
human limitation seems to end in tragedy — or does it?
From the vantage point of Humanity 3.5, the insistence on faster solutions to
human limitations seems a lot like an inability to come to a mature reckoning with finitude and death.
Not exact matches
If you can not distinguish the truth being communicated from its culturally and historically conditioned manner of expression, then it
seems impossible to cope with advances in
human knowledge which show up the
limitations and inaccuracies of the earlier ideas.
Now there is no cure whatever for this kind of
limitation, and it
seems to me but one instance of the intrinsic limit of the
human situation, and this might reasonably be expected to recur in other fields in man's search for truth.
As necessary as its analysis of the self as existence still
seems to me to be to any anthropological reflection, the value of this analysis as well as its
limitations are more likely to be justly appreciated when it is viewed together with the other post-Hegelian philosophies of
human activity that Richard J. Bernstein has so ably discussed in his book, Praxis and Action.
To add another whole set of meetings and programs may
seem beyond
human limitations.
One other thing to throw in the mix, if we care to challenge ourselves to grow, can be to take a deeper look at the very things that provoke us (be it our wish to be more green colliding with our own
human limitations to be perfect, or the injustices that
seem clearly «wrong» to us).
All the reflections
seemed to move in unison — but that, I knew, was a mere
limitation of
human perception; at a young age I had learned of light's finite speed.
Another questionable item concerns how
humans were able to deduce the creatures»
limitations prior to their rampant depletion (at least if tabloid fodder is any indication)... so the film's resolution feels a bit like M. Night Shyamalan's Signs (2002) and those hydrophobic aliens trying to colonize a planet mostly made of water (and speaking of printing techniques, how Evelyn has a calendar to mark her due date well over a year into isolation also
seems suspect).
People
seemed to take issue with the 6v6
human player
limitation when it was announced.
Ruby's spray painted blocks and wall hangings
seem to reference the aesthetic of these 90's video game graphics that place the viewer in this familiar world where you're still a normal
human, but, due to technological
limitations, non-essential information, such as concrete walls, aren't highly rendered.
From the meat - headed jock who can't pass an IQ test, to the artsy - fartsy literai who can't tweak a carburetor, to the stereotyped four - eyed
human calculator, who can't throw a spiral — it
seems only natural for all of us to expect
limitations in our abilities.»