Nick Hutchison explores how resistance and fear come from within, not from outside forces. He uses Forbidden Planet, a 1950s sci-fi film where a man's imagination manifests as monsters, to show how internal impulses create external-looking dangers. Confronting fear directly makes it dissipate.
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But where did you come up with this concept that resistance arises from within and that it doesn't come from an external source?
I'm not sure. It just seems kind of obvious that that's where it's coming from. I mean, maybe it comes from an external source. It's possible that there's some quantum mechanics definition or something of it. But clearly, we create our own fear in the case of resistance. And the proof of that is that once you sort of stare it in the face, it goes away. It's not like it has a life of its own, you know, like a tiger that's standing across it. We're creating it. Have you ever heard of a movie called Forbidden Planet. It's like from the '50s. It's one of the first sci-fi movies back then with Robby the Robot, and Walter Pidgeon is the star of it. But the sort of the climax of this— of the story is this scientist who— Walter Pidgeon— is on a planet out in space with his own imagination, with his own dark id, ID, has created these monsters that are coming after his family and everything, and they're trying to burn their way like through a steel door.