BOUND Toward the End of the Preceding
0For Devi, Imp, and Lida.
(alan watts)
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition the point of the composition.
If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest; and there would be composers who only wrote finales.
People go to concerts only to hear one crashing chord - because that’s the end.
Same way in dancing—you don’t aim at a particular spot in the room; that’s where you should arrive.
The whole point of the dancing is the dance.
Now, but we don’t see that as something brought by our education into our everyday conduct.
We’ve got a system of schooling which gives a completely different impression.
It’s all graded—and what we do is we put the child into the corridor of this grade system, with a kind of “c’mon kitty kitty kitty…”.
Then when you wake up one day about forty years old, you say “My God! I’ve arrived! I’m there!”
And you don’t feel very different from what you always felt.
And there's a slight letdown, because you feel there's a hoax.
And there was a hoax.
A dreadful hoax.
They made you miss everything. By expectation.
Look at the people who live to retire, and put those savings away.
And then when they’re sixty-five, and they don’t have any energy left, they’re more or less impotent, they go and rot in an old people’s “senior citizens” community.
Because we’ve simply cheated ourselves, the whole way down the line.
We thought of life by analogy was a journey, was a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end.
And the thing was to get to that end.
Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead.
But we missed the point the whole way along.
It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played."
BOUND
(... from a game as an instrument From Ancient Greek τεχνολογία (tekhnología, “systematic treatment (of grammar)”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “art”) + -λογία (-logía) - Michal Staniszewski, game director at Plastic, described Bound as a "notgame [...] which is also a game."
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