In the movie Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children there are people who are trying to turn the ability to enter an eternal now in the present into something permanent by force. They are trying to do this by stealing other peoples individual entrances to these pockets of now’s anywhere in time. But in doing this, that will also transform them into monsters, and the only way for them to regain their human form again, is to eat the eyes of children with the ability to enter that time of its own within this present one.
Viewed as a creative layer on our relations, people of this kind think they can own everybody else’s sense of imagination, and they want to make all experiences of this kind of otherness permanent for themselves at the expense of other people.
This is a wonderful and creative way to visualise the dehumanizing process of standardized imagination. And to show what a collectives creation of our relation to being really does to people.
By our denial of beingness we have to eat the eyes of these children looking beyond our time and confiscate their experiences, their access to a living reality behind time itself.
Because when we substitute our individual relations to being in the flow of life with a pointless polarity of ideas and formless repetition. We loose this entrance.
In short, we turn into monsters.