Re: Dear Daniel Quinn...

[triskel1979]

There are far more of us out there than you think. You do not have to seperate from those who are lost and you do not have to teach and save each of them either. Do not lay that burden upon yourself. It only leads to misery. Use your knowledge to spread compassion and understanding of the "Human Condition." Teach those who seek this knowledge. And leave as little damage in your wake as possible.

Stay Strong.

[michalalphatango]

check out the book days of war nights of love by the crimethinc collective. you won't regret it

[fromsoiltosoul]

missing ya adam...

[AdamHintz]

ditto.

[DeflocculatedDentist]

Digging the new look.

I know how you feel. Watching this actually made me tear up a little.

[AdamHintz]

I call it my winter coat. :D

I don't know if it's that we've alienated ourselves or if we're realizing how separated we've become and actually having a sense of it.

[cchilder]

i remember when my teachers would say "if you have a question or a comment, please ask or say it. if you have this problem, then odds are that many many more people do as well."

it doesnt take away all the bad stuff, but it helps to know that im not alone

[AdamHintz]

I agree. Live by example.

[ahnaknits]

Thanks for this. Even though its not directed at me, it might as well be, and its really, really nice to hear. Keep up the good work, brother.

[AdamHintz]

I'm happy to hear it resonated.

[spinalfluidontap]

I am married have a grown daughter and two dogs. That is my real life community. I have some exceptional friends here on yt, some of whom are in similar circumstances. We are a little community here but to get away from the grind of trying to educate the talking monkeys, we have great fun as we all have sences of humor and employ this trait in our daily lives and conversations. We laugh at ourselves as much as anything and it is an ongoing thing just make each other happy.

[AdamHintz]

I agree. I read, watch movies and play video games to unwind. These are things I do for my own sanity. My focus on saving the world remains.

[TUSENMAUG]

"Off limits" doesn't begin to describe what people think about these concepts.

But it's ok, people will get it eventually and sooner or later we'll be all on the same page more or less.

[AdamHintz]

I agree. Hopfully sooner than later.

[TUSENMAUG]

Heh, I guess in the end all we can do is hope.

[Beardedyoungman]

Happiness is something found not sought? live and let live and we'll be closer to finding it day to day. I know it doesn't sound like an opposite. I think the maker of the saying ignorance is bliss meant to say out of sight out of mind, I found something today.. as that was a lyric of a song i wrote about my town due to the crazy unsustainableness going on after it was eaten by the bigger city. I had gotten depressed about the whole situation and forgot those lyrics. Thank You

[AdamHintz]

Thanks for sharing that. The best we can do is all we can do. I hope it's enough.

[inactivism]

This video is right on the money for me lately.

[AdamHintz]

I'm glad to hear if found you. How are things?

[REXMARX003]

Three words - Bad hair day......

Seriously, you are right. It is best not too be too serious with most people (and no, you did not quite say that, but I just did).

I am working on the local network and it is starting to take hold, but not quite. Two years into it and making progress.

[AdamHintz]

Ha! Yeah wearing a stocking hat all day will do that.

I'm glad to hear you doing some networking and I'm looking forward to hearing the stories of you journey.

[keanghiero]

Nice

5*

all the best

Kean

[justinc18]

If ignorance is happiness, I'm not entirely sure what the opposite would be. I just alienate myself from the people who are ignorant, and say what I have to say to these people, and that's it. Spending the least amount of time talking to them.

I've always been alienated from people, even as a kid because I was never the cool dude with cool things that people were interested in. Or, had cool qualities I should say, that people liked. Though, I'm sure there is a group out there where a niche is

[justinc18]

present. I just haven't found it yet.

I just go on with a beat of my own drum and see where a crossroads can be met, but I am getting sick of just doing it on my own. I need to find a niche soon with people, because it is getting quite lonely, especially as I age.

I find it hard to change direction; can it be changed? I don't doubt it. Would it be a lot of work to develop the rationale, and get people to realize, and see what's going on? Sure, by using the mediums that everyone else does.

[justinc18]

It would be nice to use advertisement as a means by presenting what is needed to be changed. Campaigns of neutrality where we still benefit from. Having a peer, or communal effort in existence for everything we do. But what would be the waypoint in starting such efforts?

I guess youtube is one way in presenting ideas. Maybe a newspaper column? Daniel Quinn is also doing something right. Writing fictional stories, and presenting common nostalgia in effort to spreading what he wants to portray

[AdamHintz]

I also am a little choosy when I select who I want to spend time with.

I think we're still waiting for ourselves to create the tipping point. Patience is not something taught well in our culture.

[ozjthomas]

yeah, it does mean that we have to work on ourselves more, our local networks more, i think it might be alienating, but at the same time it is freeing and if we can learn and live make a better world. even if it is difficult now.

[AdamHintz]

That snowball has to keep rolling.

[donHooligan]

hehe

we can't either.

[AdamHintz]

Is it possible for you to travel?

[donHooligan]

with permission...

[donHooligan]

"feed em beans"

-tito discovery-

(a song about telling people what they wanna hear...while planting seeds in their mind)

[AdamHintz]

I like this concept.

[donHooligan]

"the more you know, the more you'll suffer" -luke wilson- (masked and anonymous) "no one is virtually free. you're either free, or you're not free" -jessica lange- (masked and anonymous) "its kinda like a curse bein born, aint it" -bob dylan- (masked and anonymous) "there's only two races. bosses and workers" -christian slater- (masked and anonymous)

[AdamHintz]

Thanks for the quotes (masked and anonymous) :D

[cchilder]

from crime and punishment, except substitute the egotism behind "great men" with "people who have figured it out"-

pain and suffering are inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. the really great men must have great sadness on earth [read: in civilization]

[Hockeyjason]

If ignorance really were bliss, how would you know? You know... since youre ignorant.

The cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation.... Comes with the territory. Communicate, communicate , communicate.... It is the only way.

[AdamHintz]

Agreed.

[cchilder]

adam-

thanks for the response. i was feeling down yesterday when i made the video. but making the video and connecting to this community did help. it is hard, having just mved to florida cuz i dont really know anyone, but i am slowly making friends.

a great quote that ive been living by lately is "if youve got a WHY, you can deal with almost any HOW". knowing what i want to get out of life is very reassuring, and in time of weakness i remember this and it helps.

[cchilder]

i know that uprooting oneself is tough stuff even if i was completely into the mainstream. but no one ever said that this was going to be easy, and knowing that i have a purpose makes it much more tolerable.

thanks for your support. knowing that i am not alone in this helps infinitely, even if it is in a virtual community, it helps.

thanks adam, keep in touch.

[AdamHintz]

I will stay in touch. I'm happy to hear the respose helped.

[themajikat]

I've felt that all the time.

[AdamHintz]

How do you cope with it? It would be nice to hear different strategies.

[themajikat]

Well, i'm pretty good at self-sufficiency. I write poetry. I share with friends. I'm pretty blessed int hat respect that i have a lot of people who share many of my convictions.

[AdamHintz]

Zerzan once commented that art is like a release valve for social pressures. I think we could use this to our advantage.

[AdamHintz]

I also feel blessed to for my community here in Lincoln.

[themajikat]

I love that whole "what art is", and that's certainly true, what Zerzan said. Our brand of art very much seems a catharsis, an overflowing, a showing but hiding, a blodd-letting. That's what mine used to be. But this new collection of poems is different. I'm going to be submitting some to university journals soon actually.

[themajikat]

The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (who died this year) once said something like Art survives within modern civilization rather like little islands of wilderness saved to show us where we came from. Robert Anton Wilson said "art is seduction". I wrote, unfinished in a characteristic way, a treatise on art and civilization and what derivation it's come to have, what function it holds, what it now expresses within the thrashing endgame.

[AdamHintz]

Wow. Facinating!

[AdamHintz]

Very cool. Let me know if you're published. I'd love to get a copy!

[justinc18]

What was the video you watched to reply to this?

[AdamHintz]

Hi justin, I just posted it in the side bar.

[justinc18]

Thanks.