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Waking Life
Um, pick a color.
Blue.
B- L-U-E.
Pick a number.
- Eight. - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Pick one more number.
- Fifteen.
- 1, 2, 3, 4,
Pick another number.
- Six.
- Okay.
"Dream is destiny. "
Rock out.
Rock and roll.
Go, strings. Begin.
Sara, will you try that,
- Yeah.
- Will you try it a little more subdued?
- Okay. - Vibrato. Just try it
and see what you think.
But what I want...
I mean, I want it to sound rich
and maybe almost a little wavy...
due to being
slightly out of tune.
- Do you want it, um...
- I think it should be slightly detached.
That's what I was wondering.
Yeah, yeah, you got it.
Snazzy.
Okay, pick up to 20, please.
- Erik, this is a pickup to 20.
- Okay.
Hey, man, it's me.
Um, I just got back into town.
I thought maybe I could bum a ride
off you or something, but that's cool.
I could probably just take a cab,
something like that. Um...
Yeah, I guess I'll hang out
with you later, something like that.
Ahoy there, matey!
You in for the long haul?
You need a little hitch in your
get-along, a little lift on down the line?
Oh, um, yeah, actually, I was waiting for
a cab or something, but if you want to...
All right.
Don't miss the boat.
- Hey, thanks.
- Not a problem.
Anchors aweigh!
So what do you think
of my little vessel?
She's what we call "see-worthy. "
S- E-E. See with your eyes.
I feel like my transport should be
an extension of my personality.
Voila. And this? This is like
my little window to the world,
and every minute,
it's a different show.
Now, I may not understand it. I may
not even necessarily agree with it.
But I'll tell you what, I accept it
and just sort of glide along.
You want to keep things on an even keel
I guess is what I'm saying.
You want to go with the flow.
The sea refuses no river.
The idea is to remain in a state of
constant departure while always arriving.
Saves on introductions
and good-byes.
The ride does not require
an explanation.
Just occupants.
That's where you guys come in.
It's like you come onto this planet
with a crayon box.
Now, you may get the 8-pack,
you may get the 16-pack.
But it's all in what
you do with the crayons,
the colors
that you're given.
Don't worry about drawing within
the lines or coloring outside the lines.
I say color outside the lines.
Color right off the page.
Don't box me in.
We're in motion to the ocean.
We are not landlocked,
I'll tell ya that.
So where do you want out?
Uh, who, me?
Am I first?
Um, I don't know.
Really, anywhere is fine.
Well, just... just give me an address
or something, okay?
Tell you what,
go up three more streets,
take a right,
go two more blocks,
drop this guy off
on the next corner.
- Where's that?
- I don't know either, but it's somewhere,
and it's gonna determine the course
of the rest of your life.
All ashore
that's going ashore.
Toot toot!
The reason why I refuse
to take existentialism...
as just another French fashion
or historical curiosity...
is that I think it has something very
important to offer us for the new century.
I'm afraid we're losing the real
virtues of living life passionately,
the sense of taking responsibility
for who you are,
the ability to make something of
yourself and feeling good about life.
Existentialism is often discussed
as if it's a philosophy of despair.
But I think the truth
is just the opposite.
Sartre once interviewed said he never
really felt a day of despair in his life.
is not a sense of anguish
about life so much as...
a real kind of exuberance
of feeling on top of it.
It's like your life
is yours to create.
I've read the post modernists
with some interest, even admiration.
But when I read them, I always have
that something absolutely essential
is getting left out.
The more that you talk about a person
as a social construction...
or as a confluence
of forces...
or as fragmented
or marginalized,
what you do is you open up
And when Sartre
talks about responsibility,
he's not talking about
something abstract.
He's not talking about the kind of self
or soul that theologians would argue about.
It's something very concrete.
It's you and me talking.
Making decisions. Doing things
and taking the consequences.
It might be true that there are six
billion people in the world and counting.
Nevertheless,
what you do makes a difference.
It makes a difference,
first of all, in material terms.
Makes a difference to other people
and it sets an example.
In short, I think
the message here is...
write ourselves off...
and see ourselves as the victim
of various forces.
It's always our decision
who we are.
Creation seems
to come out of imperfection.
It seems to come out of
a striving and a frustration.
And this is where I think
language came from.
I mean, it came from our desire
to transcend our isolation...
and have some sort of
connection with one another.
And it had to be easy
when it was just simple survival.
Like, you know, "water. "
We came up with a sound for that.
Or, " Saber-toothed tiger right behind
you. " We came up with a sound for that.
But when it gets
really interesting, I think,
is when we use that same system
of symbols to communicate...
all the abstract and intangible things
that we're experiencing.
What is, like, frustration?
Or what is anger or love?
When I say "love,"
the sound comes
out of my mouth...
and it hits
the other person's ear,
travels through this
Byzantine conduit in their brain,
you know, through their memories
of love or lack of love,
and they register what I'm saying
and say yes, they understand.
But how do I know they understand?
Because words are inert.
They're just symbols.
They're dead, you know?
And so much of our experience
is intangible.
So much of what we perceive cannot
be expressed. It's unspeakable.
And yet, you know,
when we communicate with one another,
and we...
we feel that we
have connected,
and we think that
we're understood,
I think we have a feeling
of almost spiritual communion.
And that feeling might be transient,
but I think it's what we live for.
If we're looking at the highlights
of human development,
you have to look at
the evolution of the organism...
and then at the development of its
interaction with the environment.
Evolution of the organism will begin
with the evolution of life...
perceived through
the hominid...
coming to the evolution
of mankind.
Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon man.
Now, interestingly, what you're looking
at here are three strings:
biological,
anthropological...
development of the cities,
cultures...
and cultural, which is
human expression.
Now, what you've seen here
is the evolution of populations,
not so much the evolution
of individuals.
And in addition, if you look at
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