Alan Watts Lecture On Social Conformity (VIDEO)
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.” – Alan Watts ‘The Culture of Counter-Culture‘.
Brilliant. I don’t need to behave how you want me to behave, i don’t need to speak how you want me to speak, i don’t need to buy what you want me to buy. I just need to live how I want to live.
Here is the lecture from Alan Watts, music from Mogwai, clips mainly from Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi:
My favorite quote from the lecture – “Insecure societies are the most intolerant…“
