No Time to Think

Good talk, picks up about 20 minutes in.

everyone should read Distracted: The Coming of the Dark Ages...scary and true

18:50
simply looking,
the truth presents itself as landscape presents itself to the eye!
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what if there is no certain truth unless the one we choose?

I'm a classical musician. In order to find the inner inspiration, one needs to stop time mentally. Ideas have to be tossed out the window as soon as they come up, and peace discovered. Then one takes the instrument and creates in art. If any prayer is made, it's to become a vehicle for divine expression; and that it's not about yourself, but maybe about the experiences which make up the person you call yourself. You have to get out of the way just as much as any ideas and concepts. He's right.

Let us work hard to find a way to make leisure useful to the means of production. Huh?

You don't have to work hard to make time for leisure, and isn't usually a means of production. Its the typically the description, or outline, of the mechanism for production.

"Creative work" is almost an oxymoron, more typical: "creative play".

Perhaps creativity seeks what's missing in what is here (the space for growth?). One preoccupied with work pops his head up and feels something essential is missing; one at play might equally feel unease in not working harder, more seriously. The whole talk somehow smacks of the neurotic structure it seeks to escape. The only suggestion: "balance" - a homeostatic term that belies the natural struggle.

well we have so many distractions these days.

what crap .