The Mindless Crowd

raspberry-blower · Post by **raspberry-blower** » 10 Jan 2014, 21:36

Here's a very watchable 5 minute vid:

What is Wrong with our Culture?

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 10 Jan 2014, 23:00

Thanks for posting.

eatyourveg · Post by **eatyourveg** » 11 Jan 2014, 15:01

Yes, thank you for that. Never heard of this fellow before, obviously be hanging round in the wrong circles.

UndercoverElephant · Post by **UndercoverElephant** » 11 Jan 2014, 15:34

eatyourveg wrote:Yes, thank you for that. Never heard of this fellow before, obviously be hanging round in the wrong circles.

Alan Watts wrote the single most no-nonsense book on Eastern philosophy ever written for a western audience. Tell it how it is, why not?:

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/58 ... ho-you-are

“You have seen that the universe is at root a
magical illusion and a fabulous game, and that there is no separate
"you" to get something out of it, as if life were a bank to be robbed. The
only real "you" is the one that comes and goes, manifests and withdraws
itself eternally in and as every conscious being. For "you" is the
universe looking at itself from billions of points of view, points that
come and go so that the vision is forever new.”

Tarrel · Post by **Tarrel** » 11 Jan 2014, 17:02

Crikey. Powerful speech. The "Spoilt child's bedroom" analogy is brilliant.

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 14 Jan 2014, 10:49

Best heard without the images, really.

All he laments, I have tried to distance myself from all my life. Not easy. It keeps chasing me.

Music, good food, friends, fresh air, doing stuff, laughing, staying healthy, trying to be creative. Happily, there isn't much time left for anything else.