Monday, February 22, 2010

Temple Grandin Movie

New HBO movie based on life of Temple Grandin, world's most famous autistic. She single handedly made lives of zillion animals inside the slaughter houses more humane (here and here). I cannot think of more meaningful life than hers. The meaning of life according to her:

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You know what working at the slaughterhouses does to you? It makes you look at your own mortality."
"When I was younger I was looking for this magic meaning of life. It's very simple now," she says. Making the lives of others better, doing "something of lasting value, that's the meaning of life, it's that simple."
How about meaning, I ask. What's the picture for that word? "Ok, now I'm seeing a mother saying your book helped my kid go to college—that's meaning. Or my kid got a job because of one of your lectures—that's meaning. Or a rancher comes up and says that piece of equipment works really well—that's meaning. Concrete, real stuff. On. The. Ground."







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