As we prepare to sadly divest ourselves this Christmas of a very popular Doctor Who in David Tennant, a few thoughts…What is the most significant or symbolic element of the Dr Who programme? That’s right, the Tardis. As well known in our cultural conversation as the red pillar box. What does the Tardis ‘say’ to us? Ever thought about that? The ‘doctors’ are dispensable, interchangeable, necessarily so, for the fiction to play out. But the Tardis is not only eternal, but strangely real-life. Why is that? Through the Tardis, it’s not so much that there is an unimaginable world ‘out there’, but that there is a very possible universe ‘in here’. It’s a box that’s way bigger on the inside than on the outside. Sound familiar? A rather prosaic police box opens with a simple, everyday key to reveal the womb of our mind, where all our possibilities, opportunities, fears and insecurities are at play. Admit it or not, for each and every one of us it’s a truly recognisable place, yet also a very personal, even secret space, that we all withdraw into many times a day. It’s where we sleep, dream. It’s where we hope, invent, worry, win and lose. There’s really nobody in it but us, our single self. It is our psyche. And it’s how we travel this world, or any. In a sense, we never leave it. The Tardis is where we live and breathe.
markgriffiths@idealconsulting.co.uk
Friday 11 December 2009
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