Hmnnnn .

I keep hoping that one day I'll persuade you , Enrika, to stop liking sex. To hate farting . To agree with every other proposition I embrace ect .....

Enrika: "If anyone else wants to tackle that question, by all means, feel free."

This comes back to my previous references to Pleasantville. If anyone has not yet seen this movie, I highly recommend it. If you have, skip to the next paragraph, if you haven't, in a nutshell: Brother and Sister are magically transported into the world of Pleasantville, a TV show Brother enjoys watching about the stereotypical 50's "Leave it to Beaver" family and town. Everything is in black and white. Brother and Sister start making changes to Pleasantville by introducing concepts that didn't exist in its stereotypical/mythical existence. When Brother shares knowledge about the world outside of town, books started magically filling in the missing information; when Sister dated Popular Guy, he (and other teenagers) started having sex; then things started happening on their own, like rain (it was always sunny), fire (the fire department only ever rescued cats from trees), etc. As these changes happened, things started turning color (the books, the teenagers, and the environment respectively). When Brother told his Pleasantville Mom about sex and masturbation, she tried it and turned color herself. The Mayor (and his supporters, mostly the fathers and school bullies) found these changes to be an abomination and started segregating the "colored" people (sound familiar?), banning colored books, desecrating colored property, all in the name of trying to keep the town in its safe, colorless, "pleasant" little box. Everyone and everything had it's own specific thing that turned them color. Sister started reading (which she never did) and turned color, Brother stood up for Pleasantville Mom by punching a bully who was harassing her (which he never would have done), and turned color. ~~SPOILER ALERT~~ In the end, Brother slowly turned Mayor's supporters color by making them realize they were capable of thing so much greater (the trade-off being also so much more dangerous) than what black and white Pleasantville and Mayor would have them believe. He turned Pleasantville Dad color by making him realize how much he loved his wife as a person and not just as the woman who cooked his dinner and did his laundry. And he turned Mayor by getting him so PISSED OFF about all this blasphemous color in his black and white town that he yelled himself into technicolor. When the Mayor turned color, the whole town turned color, and became a more glorious world with emotion, knowledge, adventure, and new and exciting places to visit outside of town.

Jason is most like the Mayor I think. He's so distracted by the sex, the fire, and the violence that he can't see the romance, the rain, and the justice born of the same. He's so threatened by change, so xenophobic, that he refuses to believe anything outside the box he's limited himself to (he even sees things in black and white as an absolutist - it's a perfect parallel), and thus misses out on all the joys he COULD have. While he's not necessarily unhappy (you can't miss what you never had), he has a drab, miserable, and quite frankly colorless experience when seen by anyone who HAS experienced color, such as ourselves. He is the embodiment of "ignorance is bliss."