bullshit cheap philosophy... hipsters are developing into this?... white people are so empty they need people like this! ... another Jew rapping without music its just what the world need now! jaja
@hombremonja What's bullshit or cheap about it? Doesn't everyone have their own unique view of the world, and their own unique way of expressing it? And there's no need to be racist, man, all that does is put up walls.
@andpyramids come on... this guy in the video is putting up the walls! dont be ridiculous about unique view of the world!.if he was asian with acne in the streets of L.A or mexico nobody would care about his opinions of the world..you dont care about the opinion of a lot of people way more geniune that this guy... just because he had the money and some dude follow him with a camera... and he make money with the sellings for drugs (probably) or cigarretes or pbr.. (whatever white americans does)
@hombremonja Wow, your racism, prejudice and close-mindedness is astounding. How can you say him or I don't care about other people's problems, or wouldn't listen if it was someone else talking?? You're making unfounded assumptions about people you don't even know, and judging them based on that. And the Jews, like a lot of other races, have had to suffer immensely throughout history, and have been persecuted many times for their beliefs.
@andpyramids and im sure he like a lot of new yorkers doesn't care about the opinions of all the mother that have been rape, kill or abuse just from bring him his everyday quimicals.... come on look at your laptop ... do you give a shitt about those120 kids in asia who build it for 1 dollar and 25 cents a day? ... please lets be awesome and listen to a jew taking! cause make think... cause i need to think with my white people problems! jaja
@hombremonja And who are you to judge and act like a saint about the people who had to assemble our computers? What are you doing to do any good? I believe Speed definitely cares about such issues, and he's trying to open minds with his discussions which is a fuck of a lot more than I see you doing, by spreading your hate and prejudice. You need to wake the fuck up man. EVERYONE has problems, just in varying degrees. Nobody should have to feel like they can't have a voice!!
@andpyramids darling.. the americans and the jews are so crying babies... trying to convince the world that they are the victims and they write the history... no wonder how people like you believe in the what other people write about the past... like the rest of americans who believe in what the news is saying.. jaja... america and israel killed more people in history than the germans, the russians , the colombians... together in history (no kidding) .
@andpyramids this year 2011 3 times more people died in africa than the jews (and russians and polish cause its not only the jews the victims) in second ww2 but of course you dont get afected by that cause thy are black and they dont write history. and they dont have internet to express or cable to escape reality... and by the way there is a differens between a racist and a dscriminator.. i may be a discriminator and i react of the behabior of the people. no matter how "history " portrayed them
@hombremonja You are once again making assumptions about me, without ever knowing me, asking me, or getting to know me. First of all, I care about ANYONE'S problems, I don't care what race they are. My heart bleeds for the state of the world. Everything is fucked, right now. Secondly, I am not a bottled-water buying, frivolously money-spending, shopaholic, white fascist. And I don't celebrate Christmas, thank you very much. In fact, I'm against it and all the corrupt consumerism it stands for.
@andpyramids and im not "spreading my hate" i just saying how it is. everybod have problems its true but there are problems and white people problems... like "first world problems"... come on did you bought your bottle of water already?... do you know what you want for Xmas?... how much its going to cost to make that people you love smile... for you guys its cost money, paper and plastic but somebody else is paying for that with blood my friend
@hombremonja Get off your high horse, quit trying to act like you're more compassionate than anyone else. And I apologize to the rest of this video's viewers for this ridiculous string of arguments. But it angers me that you would dismiss me (or Speed) and my point of view or opinion, based on the fact that I am white and from a first world nation. I understand that I don't suffer as much as a lot of other people, but to pass it off as "white people/first world problems" is incredibly ignorant.
@hombremonja No one can discern what "it is" you're actually "telling", because you only managed to manifest a whiny diatribe about the perils of people living in third world countries, desperately trying to make it relevant to this video, when in fact it isn't. Nothing about this video attempts to argue against your sentiments toward the plight of lesser fortunate people. It is interesting because this dude is eloquent, and his contemplations on existentialism are interesting.
he works at a bar in kansas city, mo called the gusto lounge... its awesome to sit and hangout with speed over a beer and whiskey... so much soul and wisdom in him
i met a girl with which i have more deep conversation with her than this guy had with the camera.. I'm the most lucky guy in the world. -self observation-
wow, he speaks better fluently then most educated write with passion. those are some heavy layers of metaphores and simiilies he's pouring out through his intrinsic language. Good for him
@penguinthecat1 What a strong argument. Your justifications and supporting statements add all your intellectual weight to your claim. You have displayed beyond all shadow of a doubt the exact measure of your unparalleled genius, the full extent of your analytic wisdom.
The flower is not just nature, its unrestricted existence.
Once we can appreciate freedom and start integrating it into our lives,
It is indeed this relationship that is so psychotic and riveting.
Because we are so meant for this 90 degree exasperation, it allows for efficiency.
It prevents us from looking past what ultimately of us, thinking to far ahead. pondering to deeply. In the effort to see past these buildings and perfect cut bisections, we ask the muralist for his dispensary.
Fucking amazing. I love all of it but from 5:00 on his analysis of what that woman said and so on is just incredible. Everyones so caught in meeting celebrities and all the fakeness but to meet someone like this man, an individual- to have a conversation would be liberating and there wouldn't words to describe it.
im thinking he mean his life or whatever it means to be alive or even exist in matter and space and everything, but does he every specifically what he means by the cruise and what hes describing when he said that he was currently cruising?
@DuppyBruh I think it's a double-meaning. He works as a tour guide so cruising is part of his job. At the same time, it refers to his approach to the life. Instead of taking a tense mechanic approach, he let's the flow of life decide his decision-making, in a way floating like a cruise on the tides of life. So it's a way of improvising I think. So in simpler terms... yes living is cruising for him.
The cruise is I think the title of the documentary about Levitch from which this is taken.
This is normal conversation for me, though I rarely find people to talk like this with. It is a form of sincerity as he posits. I wonder if he he listens to someone who can speak on his level. He might interrupt you. It would be cool if he was a good listener too. Who knows? If he is a good listener, he would be the perfect friend.
I was introduced to this guy in one of my English classes and my God is he amazing. Most people will look at him and think he's crazy, but's so lucid and able to really articulate what I think everyone feels. Why can't everyone be like this?
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wow.. this guy makes the wildest leaps in his arguments. if A + B = X. by that same reason, A/Q + W + (GLA-N^2) + E - Z = U... So by that same rational A=L... i mean come on... half the things he says he just slides over and sets the idea ajar. doesn't mean he's wrong. But i can't imagine how the grid plan is close minded. its like saying, "OMG you can't imagine triangle wheals on a car?keep them round eh? and why don't we just alloying genocide? i cant believe this woman had no idea about life"
I actually laughed aloud when, just now, I stumbled upon the existence of this malarkey disguised as philosophy. When I learned that it wasn't meant as a joke, I laughed again.
um ancientcian...it's really not that hard to understand...he's talking about life...why don't people have more conversations like this guy does...me and my friends have these conversations all the time.
I wish people would be more open and express their inner selves to others, there's a lot of interesting folks that we can learn from. So I back you up! :)
@berma051 Find an informal aspergers support group where "social lubricants" are acceptable. Just be warned that some like us are less patient than others.
@dualnature69 i agree i also feel that people who do drugs would like meditation and wat it brings alot more if they knew wat it really was. drugs played a big part in my life or i should say the counter culture it made me see the world from an outsider perspective and came to a lot of realizations and i felt that was a positive of drugs (casual use) meditation however made me see myself from another perspective and also gave me many realizations
Lashing out against "the grid plan" is like lashing out against the wheel, both physically and metaphorically. There is no escaping the need for structure and there is no escaping the human condition. If society started over from scratch, there would be more grid plans and things like, music structure, math... and the wheel. People would inherit the same neurosies.
@Ironchefpizza Absolutely, it pisses me off when idiots tag anarchy symbols, with the mindset "fuck the police, I wanna [insert self-serving illegal activity here]." Our ancestors have worked hard to set these systems and rules up, and they exist because they work as best as possible in a greedy world. We would be fucked without them. Timothy is actually lashing out against those who think "everything's fine, this is the way things always should be, who cares what else is possible" in general.
Unklphat: Humanity needs a 'grid plan' language like they need a shopping mall. Spoken language is but one of many forms of communication. We have fallen into learning to rely on the physical so much that we have fallen out of touch with anything outside this material world. Animals are MORE aware than humans are and do you think they even conceive the thought of requiring a 'grid plan?'
His point would make sense if he himself were the final culmination of everything before him, the ultimate resolve point of existance, but the world goes on and on - and humanity needs a "grid plan" to pass along a message.
By describing "The Cruise," he is using a set of words and me a set of letters to communicate and share. It's an underlying structure and organization that we all rely on to do more together. By Levitch slamming the city's grid plan, he needs to recognize that words and letters are themselves a "grid plan," so are the pixels and bits that make up this film.
You make a good point Unklphat, however although words and letters are similar to the grid plan, in that they are a structure within which we work. Think of streets that are windy, natural and that have evolved naturally. They are not homogenous, rigid, and restrictive. This is similar to language. Language unlike the grid plan, is a natural, evolving 'structure' within which we can define ourselves and celebrate our individuality. We don't sound the same or end up at the same destination do we?
i would argue that his denunciation of the grid plan is not contingent on his physical being transcending the grid plan, but his own essence. he acknowledges the fatalism behind this grid plan and the deterministic pathways underlying all human behavior and interaction. so while he may not be able to physically transcend the ubiquitous grid plans around him, he can denounce the physical and salsa dance with his own essence.
"I'd further would love it, on the cruise, if I could look at the flower, appreciate the beauty of the flower, and then have the flower appreciate the beauty of me."
One of the most poignant things I have EVER had the pleasure to hear.
"How much rebellion did I have to experience, how much fighting did I do. How many times did I have to ignore my father's inability to emote, how we all ignore our father's inability to emote in our presence. [...] I mean how much daily fighting, infighting, strategizing, evading and running did I have to do for the ability to feel. For the ability to emote. For the simple moment when I feel actual passion."
I have the same (lack of) haircut (along with size, etc).. I'm glad I don't speak through my nose like he do, but he's infact more experienced or smarter or deeper or more poetic or all of the above, than me, which I greatly respect; there are not many.
awesome. just don't get why they need to shoot this at landmarks ... it makes it cheesy ... I'd rather see dude in some unknown alleyway where there's unknown beauties ...
He's commenting on the conditioning of our minds, the frailty of the human experience, and what inspires the human soul at its core (which is, to say- exuberance through nature and reality).
Speed is on to something, and we can all learn something from dude.
a "point" would mean that there is an answer, that there was a plan, meaning that there was a definitive construction of what IS and WILL BE and i believe he, so eloquently in fact, is simply asking questions and refusing to accept that there is a "point" to any of this.. or that requiring a point is a prerequisite for the pointless. if your mode of emotion right now is to listen as if only to speak, then you are not being spoken through, as in wanting to BE THE FLOWER, not the flower wanting u
Not the movie, as I've not seen it, but taken from these select clips I'd have to say that Levitch is a firm believer in existentialism, and as such he really pushes people to actually go out from their computers and experience -life-. He makes a point, in my view, that people should go and embrace their passions and creativity, that they should create and display their work to the world and that a life lived sincerely with passion and married in the embrace of one's creativity is a proper life.
He's probably just slightly demented or outside of the realm of what we would call sanity from the way he anthropomorphises flowers and the like, but he still makes an extremely enticing philosophical point with what he says throughout the whole thing.
Wow, I just went through almost this whole clip without realizing it was in black and white. If that isn't a good example of deep reflective thought, what is?
"i think having an intimate "love affair" with a flower is far more psychotic and riveting than having a "love affair" with some of the banal creatures of the human race... although i'd be into that too!" gotta love him!
pretty provocative.. he had a hell of a monologue in waking life man. Oh my god that was a great part. "I like to go salsa dancing with my confusion" is the quote i use everywhere.
doesn't particularly mean anything. i have asperger's syndrome myself, and i'm a fairly social person. many of his mannerisms do suggest that he may have some form of high-functioning autism
the NY city grid plan IS "a self portrait of the city's own personal struggles", yet it IS also and more directly the struggle of "some real estate broker's wet dream form 1807" i think you and speed would both agree, but just because art has a point, doesn't mean you have to treat it like an opinion, in order for you to keep an identity that doesn't contradict other identity's... do you do real estate jacintho10?
the weird thing is, he is obviously very clever and it kinda makes me feel a bit thick.....but if you recognise all that he is saying, has he just thought about things too much and what will it gain him and then if i recognise all he is saying what will i gain from it if anything? this comment is not meant to start an argument but someone disscuss it
simply awesome love this guy
rexappel 3 months ago
"I am cruising currently, right now. Heh heh heh heh heh!!!" :D
andpyramids 3 months ago
bullshit cheap philosophy... hipsters are developing into this?... white people are so empty they need people like this! ... another Jew rapping without music its just what the world need now! jaja
hombremonja 3 months ago
@hombremonja What's bullshit or cheap about it? Doesn't everyone have their own unique view of the world, and their own unique way of expressing it? And there's no need to be racist, man, all that does is put up walls.
andpyramids 3 months ago
@andpyramids come on... this guy in the video is putting up the walls! dont be ridiculous about unique view of the world!.if he was asian with acne in the streets of L.A or mexico nobody would care about his opinions of the world..you dont care about the opinion of a lot of people way more geniune that this guy... just because he had the money and some dude follow him with a camera... and he make money with the sellings for drugs (probably) or cigarretes or pbr.. (whatever white americans does)
hombremonja 2 months ago
@hombremonja Wow, your racism, prejudice and close-mindedness is astounding. How can you say him or I don't care about other people's problems, or wouldn't listen if it was someone else talking?? You're making unfounded assumptions about people you don't even know, and judging them based on that. And the Jews, like a lot of other races, have had to suffer immensely throughout history, and have been persecuted many times for their beliefs.
andpyramids 2 months ago
@andpyramids and im sure he like a lot of new yorkers doesn't care about the opinions of all the mother that have been rape, kill or abuse just from bring him his everyday quimicals.... come on look at your laptop ... do you give a shitt about those120 kids in asia who build it for 1 dollar and 25 cents a day? ... please lets be awesome and listen to a jew taking! cause make think... cause i need to think with my white people problems! jaja
hombremonja 2 months ago
@hombremonja And who are you to judge and act like a saint about the people who had to assemble our computers? What are you doing to do any good? I believe Speed definitely cares about such issues, and he's trying to open minds with his discussions which is a fuck of a lot more than I see you doing, by spreading your hate and prejudice. You need to wake the fuck up man. EVERYONE has problems, just in varying degrees. Nobody should have to feel like they can't have a voice!!
andpyramids 2 months ago
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@andpyramids darling.. the americans and the jews are so crying babies... trying to convince the world that they are the victims and they write the history... no wonder how people like you believe in the what other people write about the past... like the rest of americans who believe in what the news is saying.. jaja... america and israel killed more people in history than the germans, the russians , the colombians... together in history (no kidding) .
hombremonja 2 months ago
@andpyramids this year 2011 3 times more people died in africa than the jews (and russians and polish cause its not only the jews the victims) in second ww2 but of course you dont get afected by that cause thy are black and they dont write history. and they dont have internet to express or cable to escape reality... and by the way there is a differens between a racist and a dscriminator.. i may be a discriminator and i react of the behabior of the people. no matter how "history " portrayed them
hombremonja 2 months ago
@hombremonja You are once again making assumptions about me, without ever knowing me, asking me, or getting to know me. First of all, I care about ANYONE'S problems, I don't care what race they are. My heart bleeds for the state of the world. Everything is fucked, right now. Secondly, I am not a bottled-water buying, frivolously money-spending, shopaholic, white fascist. And I don't celebrate Christmas, thank you very much. In fact, I'm against it and all the corrupt consumerism it stands for.
andpyramids 2 months ago
@andpyramids and im not "spreading my hate" i just saying how it is. everybod have problems its true but there are problems and white people problems... like "first world problems"... come on did you bought your bottle of water already?... do you know what you want for Xmas?... how much its going to cost to make that people you love smile... for you guys its cost money, paper and plastic but somebody else is paying for that with blood my friend
hombremonja 2 months ago
@hombremonja Get off your high horse, quit trying to act like you're more compassionate than anyone else. And I apologize to the rest of this video's viewers for this ridiculous string of arguments. But it angers me that you would dismiss me (or Speed) and my point of view or opinion, based on the fact that I am white and from a first world nation. I understand that I don't suffer as much as a lot of other people, but to pass it off as "white people/first world problems" is incredibly ignorant.
andpyramids 2 months ago
@hombremonja No one can discern what "it is" you're actually "telling", because you only managed to manifest a whiny diatribe about the perils of people living in third world countries, desperately trying to make it relevant to this video, when in fact it isn't. Nothing about this video attempts to argue against your sentiments toward the plight of lesser fortunate people. It is interesting because this dude is eloquent, and his contemplations on existentialism are interesting.
decan45 2 weeks ago
@hombremonja
I am the living whispered warning in the roman generals ear 'glory is fleeting'. How can you not find that funny.
ArtyomLastLight 2 months ago
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@ArtyomLastLight come on... do you?
hombremonja 2 months ago
If only people had the intellectual ability to have a conversation like this where I live.
thejessmorris 3 months ago
Anyone who has gotten lost in a foreign city with no right angles has to appreciate New York city's grid plan.
jimbrown257 4 months ago
Blow up the grid plan..
MSlapik 4 months ago
he works at a bar in kansas city, mo called the gusto lounge... its awesome to sit and hangout with speed over a beer and whiskey... so much soul and wisdom in him
SlickrockBelize 6 months ago
SPEED WORKS @ DIS BAR 'GUSTO' IN KANSAS CITY???
AAAASMAR 4 months ago
Yeah Speed! I wanna cruise with you, rock star :)
changedowndances 7 months ago
Amazing.
PinkYui16 7 months ago
is it this me or this man douds like a cantoon character
abarrathemaster 7 months ago
i love it!
RXTVonline 8 months ago
why does this only have 40000 views
Marawanasmok 8 months ago
what a weak communicator
DoctorRazzArea4 8 months ago
i met a girl with which i have more deep conversation with her than this guy had with the camera.. I'm the most lucky guy in the world. -self observation-
mk0frosty 8 months ago
@mk0frosty id say your conversation was boring and stupid
Marawanasmok 8 months ago
@Marawanasmok we had sex before that :))
mk0frosty 8 months ago
Does this guy make money at doing this?
I'm not discounting his arguments, but, is this his job?
webgeek6 10 months ago
@webgeek6
He's a tour guide
aparker22418 10 months ago
"although I'd be into that too"
HardAsARock222 1 year ago 14
please . . . we should make a world with people who understand how incredible this guys is and how important are people like him are this world ! !
dellausi 1 year ago
someone should upload the clip from the end, where he tells the story about the Baal Shem Tov
Silenus6 1 year ago
how much air conditioning did I have to transcend...brilliant.
chrisnatti 1 year ago
waking life!
larry89 1 year ago
Hoop FTW! XD
jonnyveliky 1 year ago
I spent all of last Wednesday afternoon trying to become a flower.
johnnyk427 1 year ago
wow, he speaks better fluently then most educated write with passion. those are some heavy layers of metaphores and simiilies he's pouring out through his intrinsic language. Good for him
TqTheTiger 1 year ago
That's more than I ever wanted know about a grid plan
xxdrew333xxx 1 year ago
Undoudtedly.
samshazamal 1 year ago
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samshazamal 1 year ago
"although i'd be into that too"
haha i love this man
randomiszen 1 year ago 5
Those video errors that blend scene to scene work in this particular case. Happy accidents.
MorganStack 1 year ago
i hate the gridplan.
bashleyb1 1 year ago
i'm as good as this when really stoned...Speed Levitch, awesome, he makes me think
XUndeadGunslingerX 1 year ago
Is he gay....? Just out of curiosity, I have nothing against homosexuals
Xxd3cayxX 1 year ago
@Xxd3cayxX Who cares?
CompletelyIrrelevant 1 year ago
@CompletelyIrrelevant
you must be an idiot
penguinthecat1 11 months ago
@penguinthecat1 What a strong argument. Your justifications and supporting statements add all your intellectual weight to your claim. You have displayed beyond all shadow of a doubt the exact measure of your unparalleled genius, the full extent of your analytic wisdom.
You feckless tool.
CompletelyIrrelevant 11 months ago
It's Puggler! The punk rock juggler! Personified.
RandyNewmanFan 1 year ago
yo i have a thirteen year old friend with the exact same last name as you (levitch)
toysarestupid 1 year ago
any second I thought he was going to break into a chorus of "Kumm Bi Yaa, M Lord"
TheTwistedGypsy 1 year ago
The flower is not just nature, its unrestricted existence.
Once we can appreciate freedom and start integrating it into our lives,
It is indeed this relationship that is so psychotic and riveting.
Because we are so meant for this 90 degree exasperation, it allows for efficiency.
It prevents us from looking past what ultimately of us, thinking to far ahead. pondering to deeply. In the effort to see past these buildings and perfect cut bisections, we ask the muralist for his dispensary.
Fruscianteistheman 1 year ago 2
@Fruscianteistheman No thesaurus?
shortgavin 1 year ago
I wish I could speak like him.
What's the "cruise"???
Ewokfrost 1 year ago
@Ewokfrost
the cruise = you + time
futureslugger 1 year ago
Hoop....?
drewskione 1 year ago
@drewskione thats effin hoop!!!!awesome
WCEcheerleader24 1 year ago
What a beautiful way to live.
I'll never be able to do the same. But so long as SOMEONE does, I don't mind.
Kimcee4younme 1 year ago
Fucking amazing. I love all of it but from 5:00 on his analysis of what that woman said and so on is just incredible. Everyones so caught in meeting celebrities and all the fakeness but to meet someone like this man, an individual- to have a conversation would be liberating and there wouldn't words to describe it.
yourobserd 1 year ago
The cruise is code for vagina.
turntapzap 1 year ago
@turntapzap really??? I don't get it..
Ewokfrost 1 year ago
"...she was a fastidious, Judaic-type woman in very sexual slacks..." ROFL
MrRobotoToo 1 year ago
hey does anyone know what the "cruise" is?
im thinking he mean his life or whatever it means to be alive or even exist in matter and space and everything, but does he every specifically what he means by the cruise and what hes describing when he said that he was currently cruising?
DuppyBruh 1 year ago
@DuppyBruh I think it's a double-meaning. He works as a tour guide so cruising is part of his job. At the same time, it refers to his approach to the life. Instead of taking a tense mechanic approach, he let's the flow of life decide his decision-making, in a way floating like a cruise on the tides of life. So it's a way of improvising I think. So in simpler terms... yes living is cruising for him.
The cruise is I think the title of the documentary about Levitch from which this is taken.
Iman2919 1 year ago
the flower does appreciate the beauty in you.
veronicalodge71 1 year ago
This is normal conversation for me, though I rarely find people to talk like this with. It is a form of sincerity as he posits. I wonder if he he listens to someone who can speak on his level. He might interrupt you. It would be cool if he was a good listener too. Who knows? If he is a good listener, he would be the perfect friend.
jacintho10 1 year ago
i wonder if he still does tours? if so id love to take one
mandelbomb99 1 year ago
A lot of the people commenting this definately haven't re-read what they wrote; if they did they'd think "I am talking shit"
jermsoe 1 year ago
brilliant, peaceful, amazing and beautiful.
perdiash 1 year ago
I was introduced to this guy in one of my English classes and my God is he amazing. Most people will look at him and think he's crazy, but's so lucid and able to really articulate what I think everyone feels. Why can't everyone be like this?
badbabybear1 1 year ago
what a wonderful man.
Katie081990 1 year ago 3
He is so good at articulating thoughts, it's endearing.
ad627 1 year ago 4
i love u speed
Subtropicx 1 year ago
dracanic...perhaps A+B does = X...
what do you think people who were not well versed in physics thought of Einsteins E=MC'2??
just because we are not as versed in metaphysics does not give us the authority to discredit this man
scorpioeye77 2 years ago 2
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wow.. this guy makes the wildest leaps in his arguments. if A + B = X. by that same reason, A/Q + W + (GLA-N^2) + E - Z = U... So by that same rational A=L... i mean come on... half the things he says he just slides over and sets the idea ajar. doesn't mean he's wrong. But i can't imagine how the grid plan is close minded. its like saying, "OMG you can't imagine triangle wheals on a car?keep them round eh? and why don't we just alloying genocide? i cant believe this woman had no idea about life"
Dracanic 2 years ago
@Dracanic shut the fuck up. Think outside the box you square piece of shit
SpassMacher2000 1 year ago
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how does his head work?
Shellibelli 2 years ago
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Shellibelli 2 years ago
very poetic
blakeandcrap 2 years ago
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I actually laughed aloud when, just now, I stumbled upon the existence of this malarkey disguised as philosophy. When I learned that it wasn't meant as a joke, I laughed again.
VeritatisCupitor 2 years ago
ignorance is bliss, isn't it?
soran27 2 years ago
this was meant as a reply to a comment, not as a comment on the video. I find the video VERY enlightening.
soran27 2 years ago
@soran27 Ignorance is the root cause of whatever problems you have ever had, have, and will ever have.
ad627 1 year ago
um ancientcian...it's really not that hard to understand...he's talking about life...why don't people have more conversations like this guy does...me and my friends have these conversations all the time.
hotsoss04 2 years ago
imagen if everyone had conversations like this
berma051 2 years ago 54
I wish people would be more open and express their inner selves to others, there's a lot of interesting folks that we can learn from. So I back you up! :)
maiden3r 2 years ago 7
@berma051 Find an informal aspergers support group where "social lubricants" are acceptable. Just be warned that some like us are less patient than others.
Scalarburn 1 year ago
@berma051 I don't know about you, but me and a few of my friends do all the time.
Birthdaycake24 1 year ago
@berma051 it can happen, if people stopped doing drugs and started meditating
dualnature69 1 year ago
@dualnature69 i agree i also feel that people who do drugs would like meditation and wat it brings alot more if they knew wat it really was. drugs played a big part in my life or i should say the counter culture it made me see the world from an outsider perspective and came to a lot of realizations and i felt that was a positive of drugs (casual use) meditation however made me see myself from another perspective and also gave me many realizations
berma051 1 year ago
@berma051 imagine if everyone could spell imagine
10ccalanarkush 3 months ago
"I've dedicated myself to the idiom 'I don't know,' and am in love with the frantic chaos of this limitless universe." (7:26)
This might be the point most worth understanding, in this or any other video...
derelict844 2 years ago 4
i wish i understood whatever the hell he's saying...
ancientcian 2 years ago
don't underestimate yourself.
zazeify 2 years ago
@ancientcian Thank you for wanting to understand rather than just writing it off as gibberish like some of these people :)
thesnowyeti 1 year ago
Lashing out against "the grid plan" is like lashing out against the wheel, both physically and metaphorically. There is no escaping the need for structure and there is no escaping the human condition. If society started over from scratch, there would be more grid plans and things like, music structure, math... and the wheel. People would inherit the same neurosies.
Ironchefpizza 2 years ago
@Ironchefpizza Absolutely, it pisses me off when idiots tag anarchy symbols, with the mindset "fuck the police, I wanna [insert self-serving illegal activity here]." Our ancestors have worked hard to set these systems and rules up, and they exist because they work as best as possible in a greedy world. We would be fucked without them. Timothy is actually lashing out against those who think "everything's fine, this is the way things always should be, who cares what else is possible" in general.
thesnowyeti 1 year ago
Tim Levitch is so pretentious. Jesus. In his philosophical raps, he's so plainly the result of a lifetime spent talking instead of listening.
He's a pretty fantastic tourguide, though.
BKThorp 2 years ago
LOL!
Comment of the year.
mads18 2 years ago
this puts me in a peculiar mood.
zedleppelinX 2 years ago
Unklphat: Humanity needs a 'grid plan' language like they need a shopping mall. Spoken language is but one of many forms of communication. We have fallen into learning to rely on the physical so much that we have fallen out of touch with anything outside this material world. Animals are MORE aware than humans are and do you think they even conceive the thought of requiring a 'grid plan?'
InfailedAttempts 2 years ago
And for those who think that this clip is just words without meaning, listen closely O_o
RichardGalla 2 years ago 4
my father had no problem emoting
we can all be unsatisfied with things but that is what everyone does
fear is a common tie that binds us together
boogiebuddy01 2 years ago
what dude? you are kind of lame.
urbanagorilla 2 years ago
His point would make sense if he himself were the final culmination of everything before him, the ultimate resolve point of existance, but the world goes on and on - and humanity needs a "grid plan" to pass along a message.
unklphat 2 years ago
By describing "The Cruise," he is using a set of words and me a set of letters to communicate and share. It's an underlying structure and organization that we all rely on to do more together. By Levitch slamming the city's grid plan, he needs to recognize that words and letters are themselves a "grid plan," so are the pixels and bits that make up this film.
unklphat 2 years ago
You make a good point Unklphat, however although words and letters are similar to the grid plan, in that they are a structure within which we work. Think of streets that are windy, natural and that have evolved naturally. They are not homogenous, rigid, and restrictive. This is similar to language. Language unlike the grid plan, is a natural, evolving 'structure' within which we can define ourselves and celebrate our individuality. We don't sound the same or end up at the same destination do we?
RichardGalla 2 years ago
i would argue that his denunciation of the grid plan is not contingent on his physical being transcending the grid plan, but his own essence. he acknowledges the fatalism behind this grid plan and the deterministic pathways underlying all human behavior and interaction. so while he may not be able to physically transcend the ubiquitous grid plans around him, he can denounce the physical and salsa dance with his own essence.
ARTismyREFUGE 2 years ago
okay. so i had to search this guy after seeing him in waking life.
after watching this, i love him.
JayMalone 2 years ago 3
i keep listening to this and the more i listen to it the more i keep discovering new things :)
imthegreenfaiiry 2 years ago
"I'd further would love it, on the cruise, if I could look at the flower, appreciate the beauty of the flower, and then have the flower appreciate the beauty of me."
One of the most poignant things I have EVER had the pleasure to hear.
Calvero416 2 years ago 2
"How much rebellion did I have to experience, how much fighting did I do. How many times did I have to ignore my father's inability to emote, how we all ignore our father's inability to emote in our presence. [...] I mean how much daily fighting, infighting, strategizing, evading and running did I have to do for the ability to feel. For the ability to emote. For the simple moment when I feel actual passion."
1noen1 2 years ago 2
I hate the grid plan!
slayerowns666 2 years ago 3
What a beautiful man.
ConcernedCitizen9 2 years ago 41
Thank you.
I have the same (lack of) haircut (along with size, etc).. I'm glad I don't speak through my nose like he do, but he's infact more experienced or smarter or deeper or more poetic or all of the above, than me, which I greatly respect; there are not many.
mads18 2 years ago
come the weekend god dammit i'm gonna appreciate the beauty of the flower haha
pwnsenburg 2 years ago
awesome. just don't get why they need to shoot this at landmarks ... it makes it cheesy ... I'd rather see dude in some unknown alleyway where there's unknown beauties ...
esldave 2 years ago
There are no alleyways in Manhattan and everything is a landmark.
ekiroto 2 years ago 3
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InfailedAttempts 2 years ago
Genius. Beautiful. Pure love. This man is sadly so sadly misunderstood. Please people. T
DonaldBecker79 2 years ago
"To be able to exhibit, that I am thrilled to alive, and to be stilled respected."
That is the cruise.
Mymothercanrun 2 years ago 2
passion is not to know, not to be aware!
cucus78 2 years ago
That's your opinion of the cruise.
Mymothercanrun 2 years ago
He's commenting on the conditioning of our minds, the frailty of the human experience, and what inspires the human soul at its core (which is, to say- exuberance through nature and reality).
Speed is on to something, and we can all learn something from dude.
jk32csu 2 years ago 2
0:39
ignore what??
yupiie 2 years ago
a "point" would mean that there is an answer, that there was a plan, meaning that there was a definitive construction of what IS and WILL BE and i believe he, so eloquently in fact, is simply asking questions and refusing to accept that there is a "point" to any of this.. or that requiring a point is a prerequisite for the pointless. if your mode of emotion right now is to listen as if only to speak, then you are not being spoken through, as in wanting to BE THE FLOWER, not the flower wanting u
liquid9th 2 years ago
yo kryl88
what exactly is the enticing philosophical point that he's making throughout the movie?
erichammy 2 years ago
Not the movie, as I've not seen it, but taken from these select clips I'd have to say that Levitch is a firm believer in existentialism, and as such he really pushes people to actually go out from their computers and experience -life-. He makes a point, in my view, that people should go and embrace their passions and creativity, that they should create and display their work to the world and that a life lived sincerely with passion and married in the embrace of one's creativity is a proper life.
kryl88 2 years ago 4
Also, I could just be an idiot, but hey, what I said about existentialism and Levitch's ideas on it is what I take from these clips.
kryl88 2 years ago
i have no idea what he's talking about..
flare765 2 years ago
He's probably just slightly demented or outside of the realm of what we would call sanity from the way he anthropomorphises flowers and the like, but he still makes an extremely enticing philosophical point with what he says throughout the whole thing.
kryl88 2 years ago
i hate walking in straight lines 2! lol....
squatinWorldwide 2 years ago
Wow, I just went through almost this whole clip without realizing it was in black and white. If that isn't a good example of deep reflective thought, what is?
UnfamiliarStranger 2 years ago
It could simultaneously be a good example of you being incredibly unobservant.
StarKrazzo 2 years ago
True. haha
UnfamiliarStranger 2 years ago
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UnfamiliarStranger 2 years ago
"i think having an intimate "love affair" with a flower is far more psychotic and riveting than having a "love affair" with some of the banal creatures of the human race... although i'd be into that too!" gotta love him!
icantmakemyownblood 2 years ago
AMAZING
divaldes 2 years ago
pretty provocative.. he had a hell of a monologue in waking life man. Oh my god that was a great part. "I like to go salsa dancing with my confusion" is the quote i use everywhere.
thepennymachine 2 years ago
nice one on uploading this great mind to youtube!
mickystoned 2 years ago
I first saw this guy in Waking Life
He struck me as amazing
I love this and have The Cruise on my NETFLIX Queue, CAN NOT WAIT
thanks TIM
lightofdamon 2 years ago
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is he gay?
mnmn59 2 years ago
does it matter?
maudievort 2 years ago 2
I wouldn't have asked if it was not
mnmn59 2 years ago
no he's not. if you watch "the cruise" he says that the main reason why he does his job is to meet women.
afskater182 2 years ago
What's the "cruise"???
Ewokfrost 3 years ago
Its intentionally left ambiguous throughout the film. I suggest you make what you want about it
joewhittles 2 years ago
good question
The way I see it:
He begins explaining "the cruise"
at 1:30 and kinda ends at 3:20 here.
However "the cruise" is the theme
of Speed's life story as well.
BravoDivine 2 years ago
This shit is too fuckin complicated for me, I feel soo inferior lol!
Ewokfrost 3 years ago 2
wow, quite powerful stuff
exDeathex 3 years ago 2
so nonchalantly poetic : o
joet88 3 years ago 4
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myspace/statutoryraped ...WTF IS THIS?
logoscreature1 3 years ago
Does Tim have any history of mild autism? I'm not mocking...just truly curious. He seems to see the world in the a unique way.
csselement 3 years ago 2
i doubt it, he's far too social a person
joewhittles 3 years ago
doesn't particularly mean anything. i have asperger's syndrome myself, and i'm a fairly social person. many of his mannerisms do suggest that he may have some form of high-functioning autism
IAMME000 2 years ago
Russia Just NUKE us NOW PLEEAASSE, We do need a new Beginning, Too may R-Tards in this said world of ours LMFAO Seriously tho =)
AlfieJager 3 years ago
when's Stroker and Hoop gettin renewed?? its obviously gonna come bacc.. "Die Stroker & Jermaine!!"
ApolloSpade 3 years ago
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Im generally not joking.
Is this guy mashed?
noobtube91 3 years ago
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lol, crackpot alert!
ssorenn 3 years ago
Cool guy
Bluewo1f 3 years ago
i love the way he talks
lostismyconstent 3 years ago
The ongoing WOW is happening right now..we are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a Dostoyevski novel starring clowns..
ToTaLyPoMo 3 years ago 8
haha waking life all the way. it introduced me to a lot of new ways of thinking.
civilfailure111 3 years ago 8
That was interesting.
wazpoke 3 years ago
what's "cruising"??
Ewokfrost 3 years ago 2
Living, not just surviving.
JacksRevelation 3 years ago 6
Every time I watch Stroker and Hoop, I watch these videos to remind me that Speed Levitch isn't completely insane.
torgosassistant 3 years ago
when's Stroker and Hoop gettin renewed?? its obviously gonna come bacc.. "Die Stroker & Jermaine!!"
ApolloSpade 3 years ago
I didn't realize how much I missed Speed Levitch. Thank you sir.
FleaOnPeanut 3 years ago 2
if you're into the grid plan thing, get into will self's psychogeography
wintermuse 3 years ago
Hoop!
BrownRoundChamp07 3 years ago
the NY city grid plan IS "a self portrait of the city's own personal struggles", yet it IS also and more directly the struggle of "some real estate broker's wet dream form 1807" i think you and speed would both agree, but just because art has a point, doesn't mean you have to treat it like an opinion, in order for you to keep an identity that doesn't contradict other identity's... do you do real estate jacintho10?
skatt4u 3 years ago
the weird thing is, he is obviously very clever and it kinda makes me feel a bit thick.....but if you recognise all that he is saying, has he just thought about things too much and what will it gain him and then if i recognise all he is saying what will i gain from it if anything? this comment is not meant to start an argument but someone disscuss it
PropageFuck 3 years ago
he got understanding, you may get understanding of your own. live inside your brain and at the same time outside it to? lol philosophy
cruxbucket 3 years ago