Ray Bradbury and "the collective unconscious"

I hope you enjoyed the 25 minute documentary we watched about Ray Bradbury.  I found it provides a lot of valuable context for The Martian Chronicles, and it's also very interesting to note the world's population at the time it was made (it has since DOUBLED) and the "technology" Bradbury found so intriguing and potentially "horrifying."  Computers have definitely changed since then, as has the phone (both combing to become one entity).

We saw the masks in Bradbury's office, which might give you a sense of the "collective unconscious" he hints at throughout the many stories.  Carl Jungs ideas in relation to Bradbury may be coincidental or explicit - I'm not sure.  But we can see a connection.  Keep this in mind as you read.

For many reasons, I feel the film Apocalypto also bares some resemblance to what's happening on Mars.  Here is the ENTIRE MOVIE on YouTube.  Watch it if you are bored. It's pretty amazing actually:

There are some good quotes where I found the film here at www.brainpickings.org - which is a very cool site in istelf:

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/08/22/ray-bradbury-story-of-a-writer-1963/

And here is the original film if you feel like watching it again, which you probably don't: