All Theory and no action. All action, and no theory

[BehindTheMask]

[spoiler=Waking Life](Four guys are walking down the street. They take turns talking)

 

Waking Life: Chapter 12 - Society Is a Fraud

 

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 of 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.

 

To 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 the commodified consumer society so that our repressed desires of a 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.

 

***

 

(The same four guys see an old man up on a telephone pole.)

 

Hey, old man, what you doin' up there?

 

Well, I'm not sure.

 

You need any help getting down, sir?

 

No, don't think so.

 

Stupid *fool*.

 

No worse than us. He's all action and no theory. We're all theory and no action.

 

 

Which is better YCM, and why?

 

For the sake of argument, you may not choose any other choice.

[CinnamonStar]

On the intro, why does it sound so familiar like mostly any of these "society critics" tend to say almost the same? I'm always asking myself, what is "society" anyway and why do people put all the evils of this world unto a generalized non-defined entity called "society"? Isn't a creative person able to make even "normal experience", "everyday society" into something special?

 

Anyway on the topic, I tend to dislike both options but I'd pick all action and no theory. Hard to explain this but I don't think every action requires a theory. And even if they don't, every action is driven by something, maybe by instincts, desire or simply because people "feel" it's right. Tons of theory however and doing nothing, that's what many of these self-proclaimed intellectuals are doing.=/

[JadenxAtemYAOI]

[spoiler=Waking Life](Four guys are walking down the street. They take turns talking)

 

Waking Life: Chapter 12 - Society Is a Fraud

 

If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true' date=' then everything is possible.

 

On the way to discovering what we love, we will find everything we hate, everything that blocks our path of 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.

 

To 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 the commodified consumer society so that our repressed desires of a 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.

 

***

 

(The same four guys see an old man up on a telephone pole.)

 

Hey, old man, what you doin' up there?

 

Well, I'm not sure.

 

You need any help getting down, sir?

 

No, don't think so.

 

Stupid *fool*.

 

No worse than us. He's all action and no theory. We're all theory and no action.

 

 

Which is better YCM, and why?

 

For the sake of argument, you may not choose any other choice.

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try putting it into poetic form and PM me please. i might be able to understand it better. I'm guessing you're saying that "there are those who believe anything can and will happen (miracles) and those that think that this world is bound by laws and that what we do affects others as well.

Let me rethink. There are those who wonder about this world and don't do anything to investigate and then there are those who just try to find an explanation on how everything works.

I'm confused can you tell? i'll see if my bf can come up with an answer

[~ P O L A R I S ~]

That line space ratio's a real eyesore bud.