Philosophers in Rags :: We dive deeper, and come up muddier.

From TCM:

Possession of ordinary people by alien entities, whether gods or demons, figures in the oldest myths. When the homogenization and mechanization of the modern world is added to that, the fear is compounded.

From Books vs Films:

[W]e're dealing with the universal fear of loss of identity, which can materialize in all kinds of narratives, including ones that deal with insanity, or the inability to recognize thoughts and behaviors as your own. We as humans don't like the idea of losing (or having stripped away) the elements that make us who we are, the individual mind and consciousness that separates one person from another.

Siegel denies any agenda whatsoever, insisting the narrative examines the loss of one's heart, soul, and individuality, regardless of any socio-political origins. According to the director in an interview with American Cinema in 1975 (reprinted at Exclamation Mark):

I think that the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them. I think so many people have no feeling about cultural things, no feeling of pain, of sorrow...

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I'm going to think about this, but, as usual I will just be leaving a note here so I can go think about something else.  My apologies.

Here is a paper I want to read so I am leaving a link:  Physicians, Society, and the Science Fiction Genre in the Film Versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers: or Doctors with a Serious Pod Complex  (WARNING: It's a 104 page paper.)

I have read Strieber’s book called Communion.I keep trying to channel my will into a state of contemplation with the help of all manner of books.But as you know, it is not easy for I keep falling out and falling into the everyday world which I greatly abhor. Most of  the time when I’m overwhelmed it is because folks behaved rudely towards me. Thankfully, as soon as I'm with my books, my constant companion, I begin to recover.

When we look upon a huge waterfall, we experience something rather strange. It sort of frees us from the day-to-day worries and yet, it also threatens us for we are biological organisms at the end of the day.

Many men,however, find it absolutely frightening to behold. Indeed, water, large quantities of water could be and often are quite dangerous.

As you like to swim in the ocean, did you ever see  it & it instantly killed the regular worries we all carry around in our heads?

I would like to develop contempt for life as well as for death. Let me clarify. I don’t mean the kind of contempt towards life that a typical Hollywood protagonists displays.He, generally speaking, loves life. I do not.

Please take care.