May 31, 2005 10:58
1st Guy: If the world that we are forced to accept is false, and nothing is true, then everything is possible.
2nd Guy: On the way to discovering what we love, we will find everything we hate, everything that blocks our path and what we desire.
3rd Guy: It'll never be comfortable for those who seek what is not on the market.
2nd Guy: A systematic questioning of the idea of happiness.
4th Guy: 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.
3rd Guy: ...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.
1st Guy: Where there is fire, we will carry gasoline.
2nd Guy: ...to interrupt the continuum of everyday experience and all the normal expectations that go with it.
3rd Guy: ...to live as if something actually depended on one's actions.
4th Guy: ...to rupture the spell of the ideology of the commodified consumer society, so that our repressed desires of a more authentic nature can come forward.
2nd Guy: ...to demonstrate the contrast between what life presently is, and what it could be.
4th Guy: ...to immerse ourselves in the oblivion of action, to know we're making it happen.
3rd Guy: It will be an intensity never before known in everyday life, to exchange love and hate, life and death, terror and redemption, repulsions and attractions.
2nd Guy: ...an affirmation of freedom so reckless and unqualified, that it amounts to a total denial of every kind of restraint and limitation.
Alien: A thousand years is but an instant. There's nothing new, nothing different. Same pattern, over and over. The same clouds, the same music, the same as I felt an hour or an eternity ago. There's nothing here for me now, nothing at all. Now I remember, this happened to me before, this is why I left. You have begun to find your answers. Although it will seem difficult, the rewards will be great. Exercise your human mind as fully as possible, knowing that it is only an exercise. Build beautiful artifacts, solve problems, explore the secrets of the physical universe, savor the input from all the senses, feel the joy, and sorrow, the laughter, the empathy, compassion, and tuck these emotional memories in your travel bag. I remember where I came from, and how I became a human, why I hung around. And now, my final departure schedule: this way out, escaping velocity, not just eternity, but infinity.
Timothy "Speed" Levitch: But, the paradoxes bug me, and I can learn to love and make love to the paradoxes that bug me, and on really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.
Waking Life quotes. Learn to live, learn to dream.