Alan Watts – Insecure societies and hermits (Audio) | Spirit
This is something I have encountered my whole life; when you don’t go with the flow of society, you are against it, and when you are against it, you have a problem; because the whole load of conformism is poured on you – merciless.
People must defend their lives’ prescribed agenda; this is what they identify with, and everything which might undermine it, will be attacked – regardless. The governments of this world can blindly rely on their support, because people were raised to do what they are told.
What to think, what to eat, what to wear, what to build, what to say, what to defend, all predefined to the smallest detail – they do as they are told.
However, there is a fear or discomfort among all conformists that there’s something more powerful than government – as Alan Watts puts it – the realization of the non-joiners, the hermits of this world that belong to this reality only conditionally.
They see things for what they truly are; that death will come to all of them regardless of their status, and that there will come the moment in which they have to face the truth of their existence. To face death before it arises is liberation; this is the only difference between a hermit and an ordinary man.
Now enjoy this video ……….relax and float.
