Waking Life

Man wants chaos. In fact, he's got to have it. Depression, strife, riots, murder. All this dread. We're irresistibly drawn to that almost orgiastic state created out of death and destruction. It's in all of us. We revel in it. Sure, the media tries to put a sad face on these things, painting them up as great human tragedies; but we all know the function of the media has never been to eliminate the evils of the world, no! Their job is to persuade us to accept those evils and get used to living with them. The powers that be want us to be passive observers. And they haven't given us any other options outside the occasional, purely symbolic, participatory act of voting. "You want the puppet on the right, or the puppet on the left?" I feel the time has come to project my own inadequacies and dissatisfaction into the sociopolitical and scientific schemes. Let my own lack of a voice be heard. 


Hey, are you a dreamer?
Yeah.
Haven't seen too many of you around lately. Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore. It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language. Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists. And the dreamer is banished to obscurity. Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too. By dreaming, every day. Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds. Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced, ever. So whatever you do, don't be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have possibly hoped to be alive. And things are just starting.

• If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true, then everything is possible.
•  On the way to discovering what we love, we will find everything we hate, everything that blocks our path to what we desire.
• The comfort will never be comfortable for those who seek what is not on the market. A systematic questioning of the idea of happiness.
• We'll cut the vocal chords of every empowered speaker. We'll yank the social symbols through the looking glass. We'll devalue society's currency. To confront the familiar.
• Society is a fraud so complete and venal that it demands to be destroyed beyond the power of memory to recall its existence.
• Where there is fire we will carry gasoline
• Interrupt the continuum of everyday experience and all the normal expectations that go with it.
• To live as if something actually depended on one's actions
• To rupture the spell of the ideology of commodified consumer society, so our repressed desires of more authentic nature can come forward.
• To demonstrate the contrast between what life presently is and what it could be.
• To immerse ourselves in the oblivion of actions and know we're making it happen. 
• There will be an intensity never before known in everyday life to exchange love and hate, life and death, terror and redemption, repulsions and attractions. 
• An affirmation of freedom so reckless and unqualified, that it amounts to a total denial of every kind of restraint and limitation.

Whatever I am right now. I mean, yeah, maybe I only exist in your mind. I'm still just as real as anything else

What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?

We have got to realize that we are being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state. The 21st century is going to 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 going to be the age of human kind 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 of the CEO 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 am not going to take a bite out of it! Do you got me?!