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sovereignty, our liberty, our destiny.
We have got to realize that we're
being conditioned on a mass scale.
Start challenging this
corporate slave state!
The 21 st Century is
gonna be a new century,
not the century of slavery, not the century
of lies and issues of no significance...
and classism and statism and all
the rest of the modes of control!
It's gonna be
the age of humankind...
standing up for something
pure and something right!
What a bunch of garbage... liberal
Democrat, conservative Republican.
It's all there to control you.
Two sides of the same coin.
Two management teams
bidding for control!
The C.E.O. job of
Slavery, Incorporated!
The truth is out there in front of you,
but they lay out this buffet of lies!
I'm sick of it, and I'm not gonna take
a bite out of it! Do you got me?
Resistance is not futile.
We're gonna win this thing.
Humankind is too good!
We're not a bunch of underachievers!
and we're gonna be human beings!
We're gonna get fired up about the
real things, the things that matter:
creativity and the dynamic human
spirit that refuses to submit!
Well, that's it! That's all I got
to say! It's in your court.
The quest is
to be liberated from the negative,
which is really
our own will to nothingness.
And once having
said yes to the instant,
the affirmation
is contagious.
It bursts into a chain of affirmations
that knows no limit.
To say yes to one instant...
is to say yes
to all of existence.
The main character is
what you might call "the mind. "
It's mastery,
it's capacity to represent.
Throughout history,
attempts have been made...
to contain those experiences which
happen at the edge of the limit...
where the mind
is vulnerable.
But I think we are in
a very significant moment in history.
Those moments, those what
you might call liminal,
limit, frontier,
edge zone experiences...
are actually now
becoming the norm.
These multiplicities
and distinctions and differences...
that have given great
difficulty to the old mind...
into their very essence,
tasting and feeling
their uniqueness.
One might make a breakthrough
to that common something...
that holds them together.
And so the main character is,
to this new mind,
greater, greater mind.
A mind that yet is to be.
And when we are obviously
entered into that mode,
you can see
a radical subjectivity,
radical attunement to individuality,
uniqueness to that which the mind is,
opens itself
to a vast objectivity.
So the story is
The moment is not just a passing,
empty nothing yet.
And this is in the way
in which these secret passages happen.
Yes, it's empty
with such fullness...
that the great moment,
the great life of the universe...
is pulsating in it.
And each one, each object,
each place, each act...
leaves a mark.
And that story is singular.
But, in fact,
Time just dissolves into quick-moving
particles that are swirling away.
Either I'm moving fast or time is.
Never both simultaneously.
It's such a strange paradox.
I mean, while, technically,
I'm closer to the end of my life
than I've ever been,
I actually feel more than ever
that I have all the time in the world.
When I was younger, there was
a desperation, a desire for certainty,
like there was an end to the path,
and I had to get there.
I know what you mean
because I can remember thinking,
"Oh, someday, like in
my mid-thirties maybe,
everything's going to just
somehow jell and settle, just end. "
It was like there was this plateau,
and it was waiting for me,
and I was climbing up it,
and when I got to the top,
all growth and change
would stop.
Even exhilaration. But that hasn't
happened like that, thank goodness.
I think that what we don't take into account
when we're young is our endless curiosity.
That's what's so great
about being human.
- You know that thing Benedict
Anderson says about identity? - No.
Well, he's talking about
like, say, a baby picture.
So you pick up this picture, this two
dimensional image, and you say, "That's me".
Well, to connect this baby
breathing in the present,
you have to make up a story like,
"This was me when I was a year old,
"and later I had long hair,
and then we moved to Riverdale,
and now here I am. "
So it takes a story
that's actually a fiction...
to make you and the baby in the picture
identical to create your identity.
And the funny thing is, our cells are
completely regenerating every seven years.
We've already become completely
different people several times over,
and yet we always remain
quintessentially ourselves.
Hmm.
Our critique began
as all critiques begin:
with doubt.
Doubt became our narrative.
Ours was a quest
for a new story, our own.
And we grasp toward this new history
driven by the suspicion...
that ordinary language
couldn't tell it.
Our past appeared frozen
in the distance,
and our every gesture
and accent...
signified the negation of the old world
and the reach for a new one.
The way we lived
created a new situation,
one of exuberance
and friendship,
that of a subversive
microsociety...
in the heart of a society
which ignored it.
Art was not the goal
but the occasion and the method...
for locating
our specific rhythm...
and buried possibilities
of our time.
The discovery of a true communication
was what it was about,
or at least the quest
for such a communication.
and losing it.
We the unappeased, the unaccepting
continued looking,
filling in the silences with our
own wishes, fears and fantasies.
Driven forward by the fact that no
matter how empty the world seemed,
no matter how degraded and used up
we knew that anything
was still possible.
And, given
the right circumstances,
a new world was just
as likely as an old one.
There are two kinds
of sufferers in this world:
those who suffer
from a lack of life...
an overabundance of life.
in the second category.
When you come to think of it,
almost all human
behavior and activity...
is not essentially any
different from animal behavior.
The most advanced technologies
and craftsmanship...
bring us, at best, up to
the super-chimpanzee level.
Actually, the gap between,
say, Plato or Nietzsche
and the average human...
is greater than the gap between
that chimpanzee and the average human.
The realm
of the real spirit,
the true artist, the saint,
the philosopher,
is rarely achieved.
Why so few?
Why is world history and evolution
not stories of progress...
futile addition of zeroes?
No greater values
have developed.
Hell, the Greeks 3,000 years ago
were just as advanced as we are.
So what are these barriers
that keep people...
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