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He mocks the outfit and weight of one male cleaner, who never talks back to him. It seems that when a person becomes overweight, they are removed from the bike work and put to work cleaning the floor instead. There are many issues being brought up here. Firstly, the way society is organized is that overweight people are considered lower-class citizens. Fitness is considered a strength while being large is symbolic of the weak.

Aside from talking down to the cleaners, the people in grey outfits also shoot at the yellow figures who appear in video games. They are shot at by the peddlers on the bike and the shooting games continue when the peddlers return to their homes too.

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Furthermore, if people are not working at same sole task, they are locked in their prison cell of video screens that cover every surface from floor to ceiling, pumping out an endless stream of inane comedy, reality TV and softcore porn. It is worth noting though that under these televisual circumstances, there is no place for intimacy.

Being spectators of TV shows means that you appear in the show as an avatar who makes your reactions public. Hence, the population is needed to power their lights instead. Their existence is pretty miserable to contemplate; so much of the energy is used to distract the same citizenry as they perform their mundane tasks. Bing is confronted with an artificial, media-saturated world, and yet he is hungry for something more.

Like most dystopian stories, he gets a hint that there could be something more when he meets the pretty Abi, and soon after he hears her singing, he falls for her. There is symbol which seems to represent their bond. The little penguin, which recurrently appears.

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These were traditionally the path to follow in order to attain salvation. The new salvation is to be successful, to obtain a more real virtuality. The crowd starts to chant for Abi to take the spot offered to her by the judge to become a porn star. Abi is being bullied. After all, the floor cleaners are not the only ones bullied in this society. She is being harassed digitally, which we can already see happening in real life today with death threats on Facebook and Twitter, for example.

We soon learn the negative impacts of intimidation when we see the career that Abi ends up feeling forced to choose. In addition to the bullying, Abi is also submitting to something bigger than herself, which happens in many societies today. Whether you call it peer pressure the crowd or the pressure of authority the judges , or a combination of the two, this Black Mirror episode takes the influence of others to the extreme.

She wants approval, as so many people do in the world today. But Abi suffers terribly for getting this approval. She enters the porn world, as the judges and audience both encouraged her to do, and soon videos of her being demoralized by men are flashed across digital screens everywhere. While she no longer has to ride the bike all day, her new role is demeaning, including an image on the screens of a man putting his finger into her mouth and she is physically beneath him, which shows he has the power over her, body and all.

So sad, as no girl says that she wants to grow up to star in pornography. This example of Ali is taken to the extreme in a few ways. Also, the pornography featuring her is spread across huge digital screens for everyone to see, rather than being viewed on private websites or seedy theaters. He speaks out the truth maybe because he cheats and avoid drinking the beverage Abi had when she performed, as he had hidden the dispenser under his bed.

Judge Hope says he is deeply moved by his words and offers him to have his own show twice a week for half an hour each. And Bing, persuaded by the judge and audience, accepts. So, ultimately he also sells himself out. In other words, he becomes entertainment himself. While using the glass in his throat while he speaks, in a threatening tone as if he is going to commit suicide.

As with the other Black Mirror episodes, Fifteen Million Merits is a smart hour of science fiction television. It shows a dark side of technology and the excesses that the world could come to in the future if electronic devices are not used wisely by humans. It could wind up that the world is short on energy, that we cannot get away from digital screens, and that bullying is a bigger side-effect of a tech-savvy lifestyle than ever before. But, perhaps we have to squirm in our seats watching this kind of television to be able to make more sense of the world, our place in it, and how to use technology responsibly in the future.

What we know for sure is that we do not plan to buy or wear a grey sweat suit anytime soon. These things are screen images, and all sorts of images most times on the screens, of the cells or on TVs in front of the Bikes. People are represented by avatars, meaning by images of themselves, the merits are charged to those avatars, as if it was a video game. They live locked up there. Everyone has his own cells, in which each perimeter consists of screens.

So, basically, the Judges are somehow the puppeteers. The one who has a sharp intellect. He tries to raise awareness. Light beyond the screens is unattainable as we can see in the last sequence of the episode, when he looks through a big window something that could be both thing: It is related to scientific knowledge. Based on general analytical rationality.

Epistemology, the study of knowledge, is derived from episteme. Based on practical instrumental rationality governed by a conscious goal. Socrates and Plato also used the word, and distinguished craftsmanship which they viewed in a positive light from art which they viewed in a negative light. It is related to the following main ideas: During the peace of Nicias B. Two festivals on unequal importance were celebrated in honor of Hephaestus.

The Chalcheia, which took place in the beginning of November, became a festival of artisans who worked with metal; this festival was also called the Athenaea, indicating that the goddess also played a role in it Sophocles, frag On the other hand, the Hephaesteia, from which Athena was absent, was a more important event than the Chalcheia, though less well known. Be that as it may, it is Plato, notably in the Critias , who relates the myth of Atlantis, where Athena and Hephaestus are found most closely united: The two of them received this region Athens in a common and unique lot.

It should properly belong to them, being naturally suited for virtue and thought. Having placed respectable people there as autochthons, they organized the city according to their taste" Plato, Critias c-d. In this same dialogue, Plato situates the common temple of Athena and Hephaestus at the top of the Acropolis, near the dwellings of the kings. On the slopes, warriors live, charged with protecting the kings. Finally, on the plain that extends from the foot of the Acropolis the craftsmen and farmers are settled.

In this perspective, the temple of Athena and Hephaestus on the Acropolis is reminiscent primarily of the linked presence of Athena of the Polis and Hephaestus in the Erechtheum; secondly, of Athena Parthenos, the warrior; and thirdly, of Athena Ergana the Worker of the plain, who shared a temple with Hephaestus at Colonus, an outlying part of Athens inhabited by artisans and shopkeepers.

A gloss on the name of Pandareus gives the story of a golden dog built by Hephaestus: The Hellenistic poet Nicander of Colophon refers to yet another manufactured dog when he explains the excellence of Chaonian and Molossian dogs: Minos and the island of Crete were the recipients of still another of Hephaestus' animated statues: Talos, the bronze man. It was the statue's custom to walk along the periphery of the island thrice daily and pelt with rocks anyone who approached the island. He is supposed to have died as a result of Medea's magic spells when he attempted to stop the Argonauts from landing on the shore of Crete.

According to Alcaeus, Hephaestus made a bronze lion and into this put pharmaka [powerful or magical herbs] beneficial to mankind. This was later hidden on Lesbos to hide the island. There are four steps to Hephaestus' creation: These statues are animated as a result of specific techniques and they are used to guard limited geographical areas. All the statues are said to be alive: All of the statues are explicitly said to be phylacteries, and wherever the location of the prophylactic statue is specified, it seems to be along the perimeter of the place to be protected: The practice of putting pharmaka into hollow statues in order to animate them is attested among the theurgists and magicians of the Roman period, where it was often traditionally linked with "Chaldaean" lore.

Medea practiced this when she built a hollow image of Artemis. Whether alone or associated with Hephaestus, Athena occupies, like him, a fundamental place among divinities of the crafts. Throughout the multiplicity of her aspects -- warrior goddess armed with the lance and the aegis, protectress of carpenters, mistress of harnesses and pilot of ships, patroness of weavers and potters, inventor of the swing plow -- whatever the domain into which she enters, Athena sets in motion the same qualities of manual skill and practical intelligence.

The intelligence she gets directly from her mother Metis, the wife swallowed by Zeus when he wanted to incorporate her substance into himself. The warrior Athena, who sprang from the head of her father, has remained a virgin; by renouncing femininity and its fulfillment within marriage, the virgin rejoins the male camp and by this inversion incarnates the warrior values with their maximum intensity.

She bears Metis's nickname, the Spartan name of Chalkioikos , "she of the bronze dwelling," the goddess as dazzling as the armor with which she is girded.

In the battle against the giants as in the battles of the Iliad, she carries out or inspires the ruses of war, surprise attacks, ambushes, and other tactical maneuvers which constitute the technique of war. But her action calls on more mysterious means. Like the art of Hephaestus, the warrior techne of the bronze Athena is greatly influenced by magic. Concealed by the aegis -- a large shawl of finely woven metal, with long fringes, decorated with the masks of Confusion, Quarrel, and the terrifying head of the Gorgon -- she paralyzes her adversaries or renders invincible the heroes she protects.

In the fray, she raises her voice, as piercing as a trumpet, and her flashing eyes make even the most courageous lose their heads. Conceived by her mother, Metis, at the same time as her armor, like a metallurgical product, she came into the world uttering a war cry. Athena possesses and deploys in battle the magical courage that looks and sounds like bronze, the warrior metal that is worked and animated by the craftsman's fire. The Athena who protects and instructs artisans appears in general with the characteristics of a more serene and familiar divinity.

Her modes of action seem more accessible, except when they involve a technique that uses fire. This applies to little but pottery, since the domain of metallurgy belongs entirely to Hephaestus. During the firing, the potter addresses his prayers to Athena, asking her to "spread her hand over the kiln. She also intervenes by ridding the kiln of a troop of demons with evocative names: A Corinthian tablet represents her in the form of a large owl perched on top of a potter's kiln, facing a phallic dwarf, the bearer of the evil eye. The protectress of potters is a divinity who is the mistress of fire, of its alarming powers, its benefits, and its evil spells.

Athena presides especially over woodworking. Woodcutters, carpenters, chariot builders and shipbuilders benefit from her attentive protection. She cherishes in particular the carpenter Tekton, son of Harmon, the Adjuster, who knew how to make masterpieces of all sorts and constructed for Paris the ship which brought Helen to Troy Il 5. She assists Danaus, the inventor of the first shop with her advice and her aid Apollodorus, Mythographus 2. According to one tradition, it was she and not Demeter who invented the swing plow.

The Works and Days of Hesiod attributes to the "servant of Athena" alone the capacity of attaching a piece of curved wood to the stock and fitting it to the shaft of the plow to make the plowman's tool. In the construction of these various works, Athena intervenes at all stages of woodworking, beginning with the felling, because "it is metis and not force that makes a good woodcutter" Il When Athena directs the construction of the ship of the Argonauts, she herself goes to Mount Pelion to select the trees, which she fells with a hatchet Ap.

She teaches the carpenter, Argos, the art of measuring lengths of wood with a ruler ibid. She watches over the assembling and adjusting of different pieces with the help of dowels.

She is seen planing and polishing the wood of Pelias's lance herself Cypria frag. In the domain of chariots and ships, Athena's competence does not stop at building. The art of driving chariots and piloting ships also belongs to her. In both cases, her functions are clearly distinct from those of Poseidon, master of the horse and of the sea.

A Corinithian tradition attributes to Athena Chalinitis the invention of the bridle.

According to Pausanias and Pindar, it is she who procures for Bellerophon the instrument necessary to tame Pegasus. But the episode occurs in a different context. It implies that technical intelligence doubled by magic that we have seen at work on the battlefield and at the potter's kiln. On the one hand, the bit is a metallic object, produced by the metis of the blacksmith and endowed with the mysterious values of the metal that comes out of the fire. On the other hand, it has an effect like a magic hold on the wild horse, a restless animal driven by a demonic and savage force, which is subdued for the uses of war.

Concerning mastery of the chariot, the qualities and expertise that the charioteer demonstrates when inspired by Athena Hippia come from a more humane techne , from a metis quite close to that of the carpenter. The goddess teaches the charioteer to plot his course, to exploit the weakness of his adversary by a questionable maneuver, in short, to make a slower and less vigorous team win by means of trickery Nonnus, Dionysiaca Another group of artisans who depend upon the patronage of Athena are those who work in wool and fabrics. The goddess presides over and excels in spinning, in weaving, in making sumptuously decorated cloths by the methods of tapestry embroidery is unknown in the Homeric world.

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Athena makes her own beautiful cloak and that of Hera. Although she teaches her art to Pandora, and bestows upon the women of Phaeacia the skills to become the finest of all weavers Od 7. The imprudent Arachne sees her all too perfect work torn apart by the goddess, and she herself is transformed into a spider Ovid, Met 6. There is no hiatus in Greek thought between this branch of Athena's craftsmanlike activities and the preceding branch. Between the two domains there are numerous analogies in vocabulary. The work of the weaver seems to be apprehended according to the same mental scheme as that of the carpenter.

Both artisans in wood and workers in textiles proceed in two successive operations: The spinner who fashions into a thread the lock of wool she has isolated from the mass of shearings works in the same way as the carpenter who shapes and planes the boards and the beams cut by the woodcutter from the tree trunk. The carpenter and the weaver then construct a new whole by associating separate elements, by the juxtaposition of beams or the interlacing of threads. The protection the goddess gives Penelope is exactly symmetrical to the concern she has for Odysseus. The same technical intelligence is expressed, therefore, in different categories of artisans.

The technique is of the same substance as Athena's intelligence, such that the vocabulary of techne furnishes images to express that technique even when it is concerned only with mental operations. The verbs "to spin" and "to construct" often accompany the noun metis: Besides the two great technical divinities of its pantheon, Greek mythology knew a series of heroes remarkable for their dexterity, like Odysseus, and sometimes endowed with the title of "first inventor," such as Epeus, Palamedes, Daedalus, etc. All of these mortals are celebrated at least as much for their intellectual qualities as for their practical skill.

This is certainly true of Daedalus, the prototype of the artist and of the artisan; his genealogy illuminates both sides of the paradigmatic personality of the artisan. Among his direct ancestors are Eupalamus, "skillful hand," and Palamaon, "manual," two names which denote the dexterity and creative skill of the hand.

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I would advise to make reservations for dinner as they are quite busy all the time. We had a lovely lunch here. Service was great and the staff was very accommodating to both myself who speaks Greek and my boyfriend who does not. We had a lovely view of the ocean, and we got the grilled calamari spinach risotto.

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