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Whilst this movie touches on some very interesting points I didn't feel it really goes anywhere with any of them. But I guess that is the nature of philosophy really.
Man 3: If the world that we are forced to accept is false and nothing is true, then everything is possible.
Man 4: On the way to discovering what we love, we will find everything we hate, everything that blocks our path to what we desire.
Man 2: The comfort will never be comfortable for those who seek what is not on the market. A systematic questioning of the idea of happiness.
Man 1: 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.
Man 4: Society is a fraud so complete and venal that it demands to be destroyed beyond the power of memory to recall its existence.
Man 3: Where there is fire we will carry gasoline
Man 4: Interrupt the continuum of everyday experience and all the normal expectations that go with it.
Man 2: To live as if something actually depended on one's actions
Man 1: To rupture the spell of the ideology of commodified consumer society, so our repressed desires of more authentic nature can come forward.
Man 3: To demonstrate the contrast between what life presently is and what it could be.
Man 1: To immerse ourselves in the oblivion of actions and know we're making it happen.
Man 2: 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.
Man 3: An affirmation of freedom so reckless and unqualified, that it amounts to a total denial of every kind of restraint and limitation.
The underlined quote resounds strongly within me as I feel that this is one of my main goals in life. To help others better know themselves.
It is my belief that as more people reach this goal of self understanding the world’s problems with war, pollution and poverty will be solved.
Whilst many of our faults and irrationalities are innate simply knowing them will help us overcome them and I believe that with the rise of the information age we are now starting to know ourselves like never before.
The problem is that at the same time we are learning more and more we are also seeing what is given to us becoming increasingly processed. Few things in western society are authentic anymore because authentic items are original and as such cannot be tested, they cannot be commodified and they cannot be sold. If something cannot be sold then it is generally seen as having no value in today’s society.
