Released: February 28, 2020
Featuring: Alan Watts
Songwriter: A Narkiewicz & Alan Watts
Producer: Akira The Don
Now, what I would call a really swinging human being
Is a person who lives on two levels at once
He’s able to live on the level of being his ordinary ego, his everyday personality
And play his role in life, and to observe all the rules, and so on
That go with that
But if he is only on that level
If he’s only playing that kind of thing, and thinks that’s all there is
It becomes a drag. He starts being the kind of person who feels that he’s just got to go on surviving
It’s terribly important to go on surviving; to live
And he works at that
And his children learn the same attitude from him
And he says, “Well, I’ve got to survive because I’ve got all these children I have to support,” and so on, and so forth
And then they take the same attitude, and they breed up children, and they feel compulsive about supporting them, because they’ve got to go on
And so nobody really has any fun
It’s just… “Ungh! Ungh! Ungh! Ungh!”
You’ve got to make this thing. You see?
And you don’t have to
See, whenever I get somebody who comes to me and says, “I really can’t go on. I have to commit suicide,”
I say, “Well, that’s entirely your right. There’s really no reason why you should go on, and if you want to commit suicide, do it.”
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Of course, this reduces anxiety; when they feel free to commit suicide they don’t really have to commit suicide so much
(Laughter)
You know, you can commit partial suicide
(Laughter)
Is a person who lives on two levels at once
He’s able to live on the level of being his ordinary ego, his everyday personality
And play his role in life, and to observe all the rules, and so on
That go with that
But if he is only on that level
If he’s only playing that kind of thing, and thinks that’s all there is
It becomes a drag. He starts being the kind of person who feels that he’s just got to go on surviving
It’s terribly important to go on surviving; to live
And he works at that
And his children learn the same attitude from him
And he says, “Well, I’ve got to survive because I’ve got all these children I have to support,” and so on, and so forth
And then they take the same attitude, and they breed up children, and they feel compulsive about supporting them, because they’ve got to go on
And so nobody really has any fun
It’s just… “Ungh! Ungh! Ungh! Ungh!”
You’ve got to make this thing. You see?
And you don’t have to
See, whenever I get somebody who comes to me and says, “I really can’t go on. I have to commit suicide,”
I say, “Well, that’s entirely your right. There’s really no reason why you should go on, and if you want to commit suicide, do it.”
You can check out
Of course, this reduces anxiety; when they feel free to commit suicide they don’t really have to commit suicide so much
(Laughter)
You know, you can commit partial suicide
(Laughter)
WATTSWAVE V: WEB OF LIFE
- Ordinary Everyday Consciousness
- Please Come In
- Different Contexts
- That’s The Way It Goes
- It Takes Two
- Spheres Of Crystal
- There Will Be Noise
- So It Goes
- Warp And Woof
- This Way That Way
- Organized Mess
- Oh My God Isn’t That Gorgeous?
- Patterns On The Waves
- An Aperture
- Play On Demand
- A Really Swinging Human
- Who Are You?
- The Same Magnet
- WATTSWAVE V: WEB OF LIFE (2019)
- Full Metal Alchemist (i Walter White)
- Too Sweet To Be Sour
- Thanks For All The Aids!
- Love
- Liverpool
- Clones
- Patrick
- Be a Plumber
- Heaven and Hell Pt. 1
- The Mysterious
- Those Who Have Everything
- Agreeable and Conscientious
- Music is Everything
- What Would You Be, What Would You Do?
- Tarantulas
- Lunchbucket
- 42 Rules for Life
- Strength
- Suicide
- Stand Up Straight With Your Shoulders Back
- Treat Yourself Like Someone You Are Responsible For Helping
- Make Friends With People Who Want The Best For You
- Compare Yourself To Who You Were Yesterday, Not To Who Someone Else Is Today
- Don’t Let Your Children Do Anything That Makes You Dislike Them