Daily Inspiration Quote by Godfrey Reggio

Reggio’s line is the kind of warning that refuses to dress itself up as a policy memo. “Raise a flag” is a modest image - not “stop the machine,” not “turn it back,” just an act of signaling. That restraint matters: it frames technology less as a villain you can defeat than as a weather system you have to see clearly before it carries you off.

The punch is “blinding light.” Light is supposed to reveal, but Reggio flips it into something that erases detail and judgment. The subtext is not anti-tech Luddism; it’s anti-sedation. When technology becomes ambient, it stops feeling like a choice and starts feeling like reality itself. You don’t argue with it. You adjust your life around it. “Blinding” suggests overstimulation: speed, screens, data, the constant flood that keeps you busy enough to mistake input for insight.

Contextually, this sits right in the lane of his cinema - especially the wordless, propulsive Koyaanisqatsi era - where editing rhythms and imagery do the arguing that dialogue usually would. Reggio’s intent is to produce a kind of perceptual interrupt: to make modern audiences notice the environment they’ve normalized. The “flag” is art as an emergency flare, not a solution, not a sermon. It’s a bid for awareness in a culture where the brightest thing in the room is often the thing least examined.