Culture
How the sixteen values appear in film, TV, books, music, myth, history, and art.
La La Land
The pure joy of people fully alive to their passion - before life asks them to choose between it and love.
Singin' in the Rain
Gene Kelly dancing in a downpour for nobody because the joy cannot be contained. Vitality as a physical overflow.
Dirty Dancing
"Nobody puts Baby in a corner." Embodied, joyful aliveness reclaimed against every social constraint.
Almost Famous
The electric vitality of rock music, road tours, and being fully alive in your twenties with people who love the same thing.
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
Two women who built a life out of mutual delight. Vitality as the refusal to be diminished by others' definitions of worth.
Clueless
Cher Horowitz, completely and unselfconsciously alive in her own world. Vitality as the quality of someone who has not yet been talked out of their own enthusiasm by the world's collective disapproval.