I’m unemployed and have little to show for 15 years of hard work at jobs I didn’t give a damn about. The hardest part about this job is knowing you’re wasting your life. Many jobs I was so relieved when I actually got fired or had the balls to quit. Eventually I run out of $$ and go begging for jobs but now I barely have it in me to even do that.
i feel that. Sorta same boat. Money doesnt mean anything to me.. but in a society that only cares about that it makes it easy to gravitate back towards it. :/
I'm super fortunate to have family support so every time I've worked a dead end job I get to a point that I realize I'm wasting my time and not earning enough money to be able to save or be independent. I'm a decently talented musician, gardener, and artist but I've hit dead ends every time I try to monetize any of those things. I'd love to be able to make an income growing psylocybin mushrooms cause it's something I enjoy and believe in but I don't wanna risk a lengthy prison sentence. I just wanna do something I enjoy and be able to afford to ride my motorcycle and pay for my food and housing but unfortunately it seems like a fantasy at this point. It's also frustrating to watch influencers become filthy rich for perpetuating damaging ideas. I often fantasize about selling everything but my bicycle and guitar and roaming the land foraging mushrooms but I have animals to care for. I just wish the 1% would realize giving away some of their wealth would make them happier than hoarding it all.
@@maxatrillionfatstacks i think we the same person lol I ride motorcycle and play guitar and into the same things. It feels like every job is a dead end to me cuz I learn fast and than get bored with it. I wasn't meant to do one lame job for a lifetime. Psilocybin are great and have helped me through alot of trauma and drug addiction with cocaine specifically. I am lucky to have a decent family but they don't have much money being mostly single mothers and women who try hard but don't necessarily do that well. Hope you find peace somehow. And me too.
@@maxatrillionfatstacks @kylec1411 I play guitar too, just the main chords lol. At my old job I’d fantasize about being a hobo and making $ from busking.
These days it seems like everyone is self-obsessed, egotistic, and obsessed with being famous and getting rich. I’m 35 and have never been more level headed in my life. The need to show off to people or impress them is gone completely and I feel free of the judgment of others. I maintain respect for others and live within society’s rules, but other than that I feel like I found the truth. When I see someone in a $90,000+ vehicle sitting in traffic I actually feel bad for the person, they still don’t have enough money in their mind, they spent what is equal to a lifetime of work in some countries on a vehicle that will rust in 8 years. Happiness is completely separate from material things. Being comfortable and not needing for anything essential is euphoric to me.
It’s a mental disease, because there is always someone who has more, and you will never be satisfied if you live to only chase wealth. There needs to be balance. I stopped working my second job because I blasted all the money on weekends to compensate for not being around my Family. Money can buy you experiences and possessions but happiness is innate and experienced by poor, working poor middle class, and wealthy individuals. And just the same they all experience sadness. Do things that make you happy, I’m not talking about addictions, I’m talking about the things that enrich your life, be with family, friends, enjoy meaningful hobbies, take care of your body(so it can take care of you) through lifestyle eating/exercise, education(not just higher learning, TH-cam lol(my coworker calls it TH-cam University)seriously, and just wisdom from others. Remove the negative forces that drag you down, toxic people. And enjoy your solitude as well. ❤ We are all learning.
The problem that too many people fail to realize about the pursuit of happiness is that happiness is always fleeting. Once you find happiness it is already running out on you. Joy is what you must seek. And joy is something you already have, you just forgot you need to look inward to find it😊.
Seek fulfillment, you crackheads. The emotions will follow. Y'all just bouncing from one chemical addiction to another. If "Joy, happiness, bliss," etc... is all you need, then I know guy that can literally package & deliver that to you dopeheads.
Happiness and joy are not the goal of a good life. Purpose is much more important. We are calcium supported globules vibrating excitedly across the surface looking for our purpose.
Hes trying to convince you to never work pointlessly for some one else, but instead do a vocation you are passionate about....if you perfect it, it wont even feel like work.
Exactly ❤🙏 The point is to earn a livelihood by doing something you enjoy and also offering some kind of service to other people… What a wonderful life to wake up and know that you’re doing stuff with purpose but also fun…
Sure. I find as long as i don't make that passion a means to an end or work at it all the time. Otherwise i might kill or make mundane that very passion.
Yes but he's not taking in to account many people are happy doing it, or have no ability to do something different. Mortgages need to be paid, etc. This chump has never done a proper days work in his life. He's studied, lived in monasteries, he's just been a perpetual student.
@@hunterluxton5976thank you lol, finally someone said it. If we all pursued passion projects and nothing else like this fool, nothing would get done and our world would be shit😂
True wealth is having fertile land and knowing how to cultivate it. I always think that in an apocalypse, he who has the resources wins. Access to fresh water. Knowledge to repair what is broken. Money is just paper.
I have been thinking about the same, as a matter of fact the ones to survive will be the ones with water, land (shelter and produce food), and unfortunately guns
lol, after reading Alan on Taoism, in his 'Watercourse Way' & 'Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are', in 1978, i truly think he'd think this all is ridiculously 'drone'-funny...😂 'These people don't know who they are'... he'd say... /: 😢
Been broke most of my whole life. Worked at all kinds of jobs. Hated most of them. I'm 63 now. But I gotta say, it all wasn't so bad. Had an amazing life. Still do. And recently, and weirdly and incredibly, maybe three years ago, a large sum just dropped into my lap, seemingly from out of nowhere, and it was legitimate and legal. I still have most of it. Bought a house cash. Same with the car. I don't give a damn anymore about my "credit score". People only need credit scores to get a house or a car. My life really hasn't changed that much. I'm just as content. So what's the point of my tale? I have no idea. Have a great day, everyone.
I'm 42, worked my whole life, military for 10 years, all of my 20s, and now I am an intensive care nurse and have been a long time. There are parts in each that were Nobel and honorable. However, at the end of the day each became a job and nothing more. The world we live in and the people in it prevent the enjoyment of any profession, given enough time. Honestly, I would rather have a dump truck and a backhoe and dig holes for a living, something solitary and simple, that would leave my mind free to roam.
When i listen to Alan Watts i normally get taken to a place of peace and inner enlightenment but this video is like im chatting to a bloke in a doctor's waiting room in the middle of flu season!!!
Personally I've found working the jobs I've had to be soul sucking, monotonous, the epitome of boredom and repetition, maddening, no wonder I drank and drugged.
Dude, you're a native English speaker. You can sell your property, and move to Vietnam, or Thailand to work as an English teacher. This job is in high demand there. Native English teacher has a pretty good salary there, the rent, the food is cheap, so you can work for a year, then travel for another country (Indonesia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Goa - they have a bloody good acid there, man!), then repeat... There are many people from the US, Britain, Germany, Canada, who don't want to come back to their motherlands. I really want to go to amazing Vietnam again, but i currently can't, 'cause there's a f...war in my country, I'm Ukrainian... Stop whining, and live your life to the full🎉
I don't need a job or money. I need ways of existence, roof over my head, clothes on my body, food in my body, means of getting from point A to point B, etc. Unfortunately, we live in a system, where you can't have any of it without money which comes from doing a job.
Then I guess we need a new system. Clearly nobody in their right mind actually likes it, and it is contributing nothing to human progress. It is at best keeping us stagnant, if not regressing us as a civilization.
Life is such a trip. I worked a corporate job till i was ready to end it all. Then i quit and said i will give music 5 years and if i cant make a living, i will give up. Its been 13 years and im still debating on giving up almost every day. I think about it but its not possible. Like giving up food or air. I feel like im breathing air that barely has enough oxygen to keep me alive. Oh well...
well, thank you. I thought I was the same.. Happened to me the day i had to find a job after finishing my highschool... This didn't end until today, almost 47 years old...
Don’t. Alan Watts isn’t saying working a job is necessarily evil. You have to make money on todays day, don’t let it scare you too much. Imagine being like my ancestors who were sent over to America and told they had to work a minimum 16 hours a day in the scorching heat everyday forever with no pay. You do what you have to do unfortunately, if you don’t want to start your own business. Don’t over think it though
Don't be scared in my 40 years of working life most jobs are quite meaningless and you will meet some good people and some terrible people. Probably at no point in your life you will think that you should have done more work
Sneezing and coughing has driven me crazy in society lol. Then all of a sudden I noticed it on the recordings and thought the universe was trying to tell me something. End conclusion... I'm overly aware of my surroundings causing an announce to it all.
Governments produce the legal tender currencies and sell to backs at face value..central banks can simply buy real assets and financial assets from an empty account. All the other banks including the central banks create new fiat currencies electronically..97 percent or more new fiat currency is numbers on a computer in a bank..
Why would you sell your life one hour at a time for fiat currency or save fiat currency when it can only lose buying power..pretend monopoly money endorsed by those who rule over you..
@@originalkingalpha5116 I take it your referring indirectly to his social background? It has nearly everything to do with it. He was privately educated in England. We call them " public schools"', which is a bit misleading as it means private or fee paying. Students who go to these elitist establishments end up speaking with a plumby voice, which is not something foreigners are fully aware of. These fuckers end up taking all of the top jobs, go to oxbridge ( that means Oxford or cambridge) and run the country. 65% of the cabinet went to private schools, thats over 9 times the number in the general population. Over 60% went to Oxbridge. This does not make the most of British talent. Watts has an " establishment accent". That says a lot, to the average Brit - instant. The parasites we call Royals are even more loathsome, but thats another story.
@@hunterluxton5976 Lol, obviously the joke went completely over your head. However, I'm delighted with your extremely informative reply as it is quite an interesting one. It sparked an endearing kindred spirit of intellectual awareness of enlightenment that you and I possess. Lol, I initially intended to lighten the moment, per your original comment, and garnered a collectively, insightful, perception of knowledge. Thanks, Hunter! I've subscribed to your channel!🍻
To see these negative comments towards a man that see's & speaks words beyond his time, it's like some one seeing those majestic mountains & calling them ugly & useless. I guess there has to bad to see good...mad respect for Mr Alan Watts. Btw.. you choose to have the mortgage, if living in a monastery or it's a mortgage gives you peace, I hope you find it.
Awwwwww. The wisdom of this man! We need this more than ever. I wonder what he would have to say about the coming AI revolution? I found a shift came for me when I stopped believing I needed money, NO I need food, shelter, friendship etc. Money can be a means to an end but it's worth less than toilet paper when it comes to meeting ACTUAL needs. Refer to Maslow's pyramid.
@scottmcgee3121 Money can be a means to an end but it's worth less than toilet paper when it comes to meeting ACTUAL needs. I disagree, as long as the economy is functioning, money is the means to compel others to create and provide one with toilet paper. It is worth exactly as much as toilet paper, when you need toilet paper.
@@chadgessner4412 the purpose of money is actually to restrict or block people that don't have it from what they need and to allow those with it to control those without by exploiting those needs.
I've been at my job 24yrs and I luv it,,I'm a janitor under payed over worked sum days but I luv it, I own my own home/property drive nice cars and pretty much do what I want when I want, the average person is a drone spending more than they earn buying things they don't need ,,fool's
I cannot have a place to live without money. It is literally illegal to live off the land. So I must own property that ties me to taxes indefinitely. It is good to stay busy and amazing to do something you enjoy for a means of providing for my family. Living off grid is becoming more and more impossible due to my local laws. I agree this is a trap and money is simply made up to make trading goods and services easier. However there is no way out of this rigged game currently.
Well, it would be hard work, but even this scenario isn’t real. “Illegal” is a concept; it’s not real, unless you believe it is. Property tax is not real. You can get that property off the register. It just takes work to do it. Is that the kind of work you’re interested in?
I actually really like my job. I started my own career out of pure passion and turned it into a business which later transitioned into a good job where I don't have to work that hard anymore as I get older. I work about 20 hours per week sitting on my couch Answering the phone and helping people with technical problems and I make about $124,000 per year. I earned it!
I was an automation engineer. I left that lucrative career because I sold, designed, and built systems that made the executives money as the general employees were dismissed. When I saw that I wiped out 25% of a town's employment, I finally saw I couldn't do this. I chose a vocation and a comparatively meager income (same as my first year after college 30 yrs ago) but now I help people rather than destroy towns.
This was so insightful and needed to be heard. I have been challenged with the beleiefs that I need to work a job in order to make money even though I dont want a job. I think there has been a deep programming that we can only make money through working for others. I know work for myself and I do make money but there can be a lack of trust that I will be able to make enough money on my own. Thank you for providing this audio.
I’m glad I woke up back in 2006 and invested in myself. Once you figure out how money works you will never have to work on a job for the rest of your life. That’s what they do not teach us in school because it will destroy their system that they have for us to be modern day slaves.
A few more viewers than usual seem to disagree or react strongly with this particular lecture. I belive this is because he hints here at ideas that are seemingly in stark opposition or challenge to our current cultural definitions and beliefs of success, livelihood, and belonging. Instead of his typical "you can be this," or, "we have the capacity to do this," or, "you are more wise or capable than you are lead to believe..." here he is instead implying that modern society is fucked up and arbitrary, lacking tangible purpose or direct correlation to our survival or happiness...in other words because we no longer provide directly for the wellbeing of our own communities we have substituted money and wealth as ideals for well-being and our lost connections. This is because for over 100,000 years we lived in small communities where everyone had an role to fulfill that was important or meaningful to the community... Now, however, only within the past few hundred or thousands of years, the dynamic has changed with the advent of wealth, and we adopted money as a stand-in for the farming, healing, music and art and other roles of importance that were indicative of survival and well-being. He implies that our current mode of existence is perhaps not best. This makes sense because as humans we literally learn and grow by mistakes. In only 100 years, people will look back and likely think, "how foolish they were. So crude or misguided!" More imperative is the notion that for 99% of our culture's existence, we had a great stake in our purpose and livelihood.....now however there are 400 different toothbrushes available when you are at the grocery store. Do we actually need 400 varieties? No. It's just ventures by different organizations to make a few people very wealthy and provide "a living" to a few thousand other "workers." Do you think the factory workers were really meant to be bristle assemblage connectors on a line? Do you think they really give a shit about toothbrushes or how good they are at pressing the buttons and filling out the daily reports? What a waste of a beautiful being--humans beings built and grown to move and solve problems. We are so much better than transforming the earth into dumb shit to make shareholders rich. This is stil the Dark Ages in my opinion. But it's ok. This is how we learn and ultimately grow--both as individuals and a species--by trial and error and making mistakes. The irony is if you DO NOT subscribe to the contemporary accepted or popular notions of work and success, you will likely be ostracized by your peers. This is actually not a huge deal in modern times, yet we are gravely terrified to object or risk ostracization because, for 100,000 years prior to this, being outcast from the community meant a greatly diminished chance of survival. We come preprogrammed with this instinct. I believe if we all stopped acting like an idiot in one of those money booths and realized this is just a giant frenzied mad grab for as much cash and resources and comfort as we can before we die (even tho you can't take any with you)...we could come up with some good ideas and accomplish some amazing things. Until then, we will continue to exist and behave a just chimps with better tools. P.S. watts is merely an observer, as are we all, speaking about the contemporary from a larger, older, or at least more impartial place. He doesn't perform repeated experiments nor conduct research, nor does he always tell us what we want to hear. Find something you love and practice it regularly!
Shame he is no more. I would like to drink some tea with Mr. Watts and talk shit about all things people have been wonder from day one. It would be blast, too bad only soulmates I have are the dead men of old times...
The real danger of being an employee/working a job for too long is that we get practiced into the employee mentality and that mentality slowly strangles our higher aspirations until one day, we’re unable to fully breathe life.
Money is the goal of largest and most powerful groups. Individuals don't get as much say as they think. They only let the individual percieve just enough freedom to keep him subdued.
Its easy to say but we need at least enough money for food and put a roof over our heads. Most of us don't have the luxury of having a vocation, especially if we weren't given good guidance in our formative years. The real problem falling in love with money. Nothing wrong with doing a job to earn a crust. Just don't break your back doing it
I get the impression Alan Watts was suggesting a universal basic income and I agree with him. Every other animal species expends very little time working for food and housing, working for the basics. Most of their time is resting on the grass or playing around. When did humans become so neurotic and uptight?? 🤔
Except from dogs and a few other animals , all animals are constantly looking for food. Have you ever seen a chicken going a minute without his beak down looking for small insect/grains etc
@@immasavage2905 Well, we don't really know how a chicken performs in its natural environment, do we? Rabbits spend a lot of time eating but the point is that their food is readily available, not rationed by big corporations if they jump through enough hoops.
This is remarkably clear audio of Master Watts despite him apparently lecturing in a dusty, groaning wooden barn, in a hay-loft full of cat dander and and the ghost of a whistling farmer. I can almost see the particles of dust in the sloping afternoon sunlight
Watts is right. Working all day for the man so that the man can get rich is absurd and futile. But one must work to survive and live. However, one should strive to find work that one likes to do and is passionate about. If this is not possible, consecrate your work as service to the Divine. This will give your work meaning and purpose.
I love hiking walking around I got a job cutting grass because it's essentially what I do anyway just with a weed Wacker lol I still get to pick up mushrooms and herbs growing wild on this planet in places I normally don't go it doesn't feel like work to me every yard is another adventure to me
I have (mostly) managed to find jobs that paid me to do the things I would like to do anyway. Of course, that meant changing jobs, or even careers, more often than most and I'm sure I could have made more money. I retire in about a year and will have passive income to maintain myself. I am super excited to see what I will get into next with real freedom.
He won’t answer cause it’s a troll, a robot, or just a fucking lier. Most of us are NOT happy at all with our current situation here on slave prison planet Earth. No worries the false matrix is all being taken down soon, we will all be sovereign and free. We will NOT have to PAY anyone to live on this Earth. ❤❤❤
Thanks for making this video. Good ol' Alan Watts I like working (vs.a job(something you do for someone else for money)), and work hard here at my home and would prefer to have my own business, but as far as jobs go, I don't fit in very well and end up under employed most of my life. Here later in life, its a big stress.
22:09 This is why Alan Watts is still a leading intellectual of the post-WWII era. How many few can reach this level (outside of a select other few like Terence McKenna and UG Krishnamurti).
We all have wisdom to share, and although I agree that some people like Watts have great thoughts, and are important thinkers, its important to remember that it's our own wisdom and common sense that is most important to us. We always need to trust our own wisdom first in my opinion.
When he says it they listen . I have been asking why people do it since I was a child ? ..and was told " shh , because thats how it is " I have been frustratedly objecting to it my whole adult life and told I am lazy or anti social . No one laughs , no one listens or wants to admit how absurd it is .
its not absurd, either you want to be part of the working system, or you dont. if you choose not to, then good luck to ya since you are most likely destined to failure. the system can be a comfort to those who understand how to capitalize on its benifits
@@YOUARESOFT. ..do you mean ' who profit from it ? While you are here perhaps look up narrative bias or maybe even moral relativism. Just because it's a comfort for some doesn't make it right . Nike trainers are likely conformable for those who can afford them but less so for the fingers of the kids in sweat shops exploited to sew them together.
Over the years I have known so many people stuck in jobs they absolutely detest, patiently waiting and saving for retirement. Looking forward to it so much, like as if it was the answer to their dreams. Problem is, their retirement never came and they died still hating their everyday life. Their jobs were their lives, they just didn’t know it.
I tried actions intrinsic to earning money, so that I can survive, but it feels like not surviving. I tried actions intrinsic to survival so that I can live, and so far it feels great, I basically chucked a load of seeds about, stuff is now growing from the ground like magic.
Helped my Austrian reckoning grasp a deep understanding of Keynsian logic that I never accepted before and adds a lot of new questions about my love affair with bitcoin. So deep.
My love affair with BTC is that it will free me from having to work.. it’s not loving money, it’s loving the one currency we have that is truly finite. Time. I’d love to hear his view on BTC.
@@OxymoronicTonic you're right about the freedom. I've become good tat making money for the past couple of years but when I imagined all the other things I might be able to do if I didn't have to spend all my time making money I was so excited about my prospects.
The bitter irony of feeling very guilty about what one has done is that it quite often results in one repeating the actions for which one already felt very guilty. Edit: I think the only remedy for this painful situation is radical forgiveness of self and others.
How old is this talk? Watts is talking about UBI and automation and it seems totally relevant in 2024. I like how he recognises that our work ethic is messed up
You can buy his lectures from his son mark watts if your interested enough to pay unfortunately that's the only answer I got besides go digging some more on TH-cam hope this helps
His son has put a lot of lectures up on Spotify. I'm wondering if it's amongst them? open.spotify.com/show/3RZiM62g8XYE4PuEF2EleN?si=FHSrAlTFTeWV9yvfSHLLtw
Thanks so much for this and for editing with beautiful footage as opposed to the usual ethereal music which I believe Alan Watts would have winced against
He accurately predicted the raise of meaningless jobs which are now very common in the Tech sector, for which many now see the layoffs as a necessary cycle to keep this meaningless jobs in check.
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I’m unemployed and have little to show for 15 years of hard work at jobs I didn’t give a damn about. The hardest part about this job is knowing you’re wasting your life. Many jobs I was so relieved when I actually got fired or had the balls to quit. Eventually I run out of $$ and go begging for jobs but now I barely have it in me to even do that.
i feel that. Sorta same boat. Money doesnt mean anything to me.. but in a society that only cares about that it makes it easy to gravitate back towards it. :/
I'm super fortunate to have family support so every time I've worked a dead end job I get to a point that I realize I'm wasting my time and not earning enough money to be able to save or be independent. I'm a decently talented musician, gardener, and artist but I've hit dead ends every time I try to monetize any of those things. I'd love to be able to make an income growing psylocybin mushrooms cause it's something I enjoy and believe in but I don't wanna risk a lengthy prison sentence. I just wanna do something I enjoy and be able to afford to ride my motorcycle and pay for my food and housing but unfortunately it seems like a fantasy at this point. It's also frustrating to watch influencers become filthy rich for perpetuating damaging ideas. I often fantasize about selling everything but my bicycle and guitar and roaming the land foraging mushrooms but I have animals to care for. I just wish the 1% would realize giving away some of their wealth would make them happier than hoarding it all.
@@maxatrillionfatstacks i think we the same person lol I ride motorcycle and play guitar and into the same things. It feels like every job is a dead end to me cuz I learn fast and than get bored with it. I wasn't meant to do one lame job for a lifetime. Psilocybin are great and have helped me through alot of trauma and drug addiction with cocaine specifically. I am lucky to have a decent family but they don't have much money being mostly single mothers and women who try hard but don't necessarily do that well. Hope you find peace somehow. And me too.
@@maxatrillionfatstacks @kylec1411 I play guitar too, just the main chords lol. At my old job I’d fantasize about being a hobo and making $ from busking.
get your CDL and go out on the road, make 6 figures to listen to podcasts, then branch out into whatever from there.
These days it seems like everyone is self-obsessed, egotistic, and obsessed with being famous and getting rich. I’m 35 and have never been more level headed in my life. The need to show off to people or impress them is gone completely and I feel free of the judgment of others. I maintain respect for others and live within society’s rules, but other than that I feel like I found the truth. When I see someone in a $90,000+ vehicle sitting in traffic I actually feel bad for the person, they still don’t have enough money in their mind, they spent what is equal to a lifetime of work in some countries on a vehicle that will rust in 8 years. Happiness is completely separate from material things. Being comfortable and not needing for anything essential is euphoric to me.
Bro, are you me? 36, finished with showing off as well. Finding the "truth" is what it's all about.
Nice comment
It’s a mental disease, because there is always someone who has more, and you will never be satisfied if you live to only chase wealth. There needs to be balance. I stopped working my second job because I blasted all the money on weekends to compensate for not being around my Family. Money can buy you experiences and possessions but happiness is innate and experienced by poor, working poor middle class, and wealthy individuals. And just the same they all experience sadness. Do things that make you happy, I’m not talking about addictions, I’m talking about the things that enrich your life, be with family, friends, enjoy meaningful hobbies, take care of your body(so it can take care of you) through lifestyle eating/exercise, education(not just higher learning, TH-cam lol(my coworker calls it TH-cam University)seriously, and just wisdom from others. Remove the negative forces that drag you down, toxic people. And enjoy your solitude as well. ❤ We are all learning.
Wealthy is to need less and less by the years
Screw society, live by your own rules and their sheep mindset doesn't effect you.
The problem that too many people fail to realize about the pursuit of happiness is that happiness is always fleeting. Once you find happiness it is already running out on you.
Joy is what you must seek. And joy is something you already have, you just forgot you need to look inward to find it😊.
Seek fulfillment, you crackheads. The emotions will follow.
Y'all just bouncing from one chemical addiction to another.
If "Joy, happiness, bliss," etc... is all you need, then I know guy that can literally package & deliver that to you dopeheads.
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Maybe…
Or… maybe it’s not about happiness. I’ll agree, happiness is something we borrow.
I think the goal, is to be content.
Happiness and joy are not the goal of a good life. Purpose is much more important. We are calcium supported globules vibrating excitedly across the surface looking for our purpose.
Hes trying to convince you to never work pointlessly for some one else, but instead do a vocation you are passionate about....if you perfect it, it wont even feel like work.
Yes
Exactly ❤🙏
The point is to earn a livelihood by doing something you enjoy and also offering some kind of service to other people…
What a wonderful life to wake up and know that you’re doing stuff with purpose but also fun…
Sure. I find as long as i don't make that passion a means to an end or work at it all the time. Otherwise i might kill or make mundane that very passion.
Yes but he's not taking in to account many people are happy doing it, or have no ability to do something different. Mortgages need to be paid, etc. This chump has never done a proper days work in his life. He's studied, lived in monasteries, he's just been a perpetual student.
@@hunterluxton5976thank you lol, finally someone said it. If we all pursued passion projects and nothing else like this fool, nothing would get done and our world would be shit😂
Many thanks for posting this with no background music, the audio is clear and with no unnecessary distraction.
now that's odd. how could one get his inspiration without timpanis?
True wealth is having fertile land and knowing how to cultivate it. I always think that in an apocalypse, he who has the resources wins. Access to fresh water. Knowledge to repair what is broken. Money is just paper.
I have been thinking about the same, as a matter of fact the ones to survive will be the ones with water, land (shelter and produce food), and unfortunately guns
I'm trying to learn how to cultivate now. Everyone needs it.
The people that didn’t plan will take your resources by force. You have to sleep at some point
We would have to give up facebook and communicate in person!
He whom has the resources becomes the target at that point.
-So what did you do today?
-I listened to Alan Watts speak while watching drone cinematic footage.
Not a bad way to spend the day ;)
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Hmm that's funny. I did the same thing.
@@amb3cog 10/10
lol, after reading Alan on Taoism, in his 'Watercourse Way' & 'Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are', in 1978, i truly think he'd think this all is ridiculously 'drone'-funny...😂 'These people don't know who they are'... he'd say... /: 😢
Thanks for posting without background music
Right... I can't stand watching video and feel like I'm in a locker room getting a speech from that Denzel Washington movie.
This is why we continue to relive different lives. Break the cycle, awaken my little gods
wtf are I talking about … you’re closer to a monkey than a god lol Crazyness … there’s only one ☝️ God and it ain’t YOU buddy
Been broke most of my whole life. Worked at all kinds of jobs. Hated most of them. I'm 63 now. But I gotta say, it all wasn't so bad. Had an amazing life. Still do. And recently, and weirdly and incredibly, maybe three years ago, a large sum just dropped into my lap, seemingly from out of nowhere, and it was legitimate and legal. I still have most of it. Bought a house cash. Same with the car. I don't give a damn anymore about my "credit score". People only need credit scores to get a house or a car. My life really hasn't changed that much. I'm just as content. So what's the point of my tale? I have no idea. Have a great day, everyone.
I'm 42, worked my whole life, military for 10 years, all of my 20s, and now I am an intensive care nurse and have been a long time. There are parts in each that were Nobel and honorable. However, at the end of the day each became a job and nothing more. The world we live in and the people in it prevent the enjoyment of any profession, given enough time. Honestly, I would rather have a dump truck and a backhoe and dig holes for a living, something solitary and simple, that would leave my mind free to roam.
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Hahaha. Have a great day. I'm gonna do absolutely nothing today. Maybe scratch my a.as.s. 💪🏿
Feel the same way- without the windfall. ✨️✨️✨️🎯
hahahah great comment man. cheers
When i listen to Alan Watts i normally get taken to a place of peace and inner enlightenment but this video is like im chatting to a bloke in a doctor's waiting room in the middle of flu season!!!
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Haha
Personally I've found working the jobs I've had to be soul sucking, monotonous, the epitome of boredom and repetition, maddening, no wonder I drank and drugged.
Currently doing the same thing...
@ejl1982-1 whay jobs are yout talking about? I just got an offer for an 18 an hour warehouse job
@@prettyboishah2898 huh? Dude read the first post geez...
Dude, you're a native English speaker. You can sell your property, and move to Vietnam, or Thailand to work as an English teacher. This job is in high demand there. Native English teacher has a pretty good salary there, the rent, the food is cheap, so you can work for a year, then travel for another country (Indonesia, Laos, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Goa - they have a bloody good acid there, man!), then repeat... There are many people from the US, Britain, Germany, Canada, who don't want to come back to their motherlands. I really want to go to amazing Vietnam again, but i currently can't, 'cause there's a f...war in my country, I'm Ukrainian... Stop whining, and live your life to the full🎉
That’s the point of forcing us to do what we don’t want to do. That we will become alcoholics and drug addicts THATS is what the government wants.
I don't need a job or money. I need ways of existence, roof over my head, clothes on my body, food in my body, means of getting from point A to point B, etc. Unfortunately, we live in a system, where you can't have any of it without money which comes from doing a job.
Then I guess we need a new system. Clearly nobody in their right mind actually likes it, and it is contributing nothing to human progress. It is at best keeping us stagnant, if not regressing us as a civilization.
Celebrity kids and stupid people making stupid people rich and famous enters the chat!
To much of a good thing is a bad thing .
The western world is getting dumber
In order to do the things u enjoy or get the things u need someone has to work to provide u those objects
I’ve never heard more people sneezing and coughing in my life 🤦♂️ an amazing talk and every single person is having sneezing and coughing fits.
super annoying!
It's called targeting
Either he was a target or he was aware that his "message" was to be intentionally disrupted and underhandedly disparaged
There's only so much smoke anyone can tolerate.
Posh school is a good start in not having to work.
That's what happens when everyone sits in a small room smoking for over an hour...
I thought the sane thing dude! Hilarious you said that.
Life is such a trip. I worked a corporate job till i was ready to end it all. Then i quit and said i will give music 5 years and if i cant make a living, i will give up. Its been 13 years and im still debating on giving up almost every day. I think about it but its not possible. Like giving up food or air. I feel like im breathing air that barely has enough oxygen to keep me alive. Oh well...
Don't ever give up.
Keep working toward your dream, you can get it!
@@NeilsonSmielson I really hope so!
@@SupersonicDragonWagon Takes a pair, to pursue your passion. Most folks live in fear, you didn't that means you already won!
Do you work in music? That would be an absolute dream. To let your heart be expressed.
Regret nothing we need more people like you. Thank you for quitting the corporation crap game.
Everytime i think about doing a job application i have a panic attack
😂😂😂
well, thank you. I thought I was the same..
Happened to me the day i had to find a job after finishing my highschool... This didn't end until today, almost 47 years old...
Don’t. Alan Watts isn’t saying working a job is necessarily evil. You have to make money on todays day, don’t let it scare you too much. Imagine being like my ancestors who were sent over to America and told they had to work a minimum 16 hours a day in the scorching heat everyday forever with no pay. You do what you have to do unfortunately, if you don’t want to start your own business. Don’t over think it though
Don't be scared in my 40 years of working life most jobs are quite meaningless and you will meet some good people and some terrible people. Probably at no point in your life you will think that you should have done more work
There was a time when women didn't have to work...
This man had an amazing range of knowledge. Relevant topic. Timeless!
I love this man's laughter and jokes!
Brilliant mind!
Food for thought for the masses
Thankyou for posting
I didnt even notice all the coughing & sneezing until I scrolled around reading comments. Now thats all I hear😂 Thanks.
Nows that's all I hear, thanks 😂
I didn’t either
Sneezing and coughing has driven me crazy in society lol. Then all of a sudden I noticed it on the recordings and thought the universe was trying to tell me something. End conclusion... I'm overly aware of my surroundings causing an announce to it all.
😂😂😂😂😂😂you attract what you’re aware of
He has summed up my life. Trying to make mistakes on my own less often.
Absolutely PROPHETIC Alan
We spend our finite time on earth trying to earn something the govt prints for free. The ultimate crime against humanity.
Exactly. Buy bitcoin, sit back and enjoy life. The fiat shit money can just be used to pay bills and spend on fun things🚀🚀🚀
Governments produce the legal tender currencies and sell to backs at face value..central banks can simply buy real assets and financial assets from an empty account. All the other banks including the central banks create new fiat currencies electronically..97 percent or more new fiat currency is numbers on a computer in a bank..
Why would you sell your life one hour at a time for fiat currency or save fiat currency when it can only lose buying power..pretend monopoly money endorsed by those who rule over you..
Well...that’s at least 1 CAH
Facts!!
True wealth is our own health nothing matter when is gone love yourself and try to be healthy is the most valuable asset we ever will have
I love this, no stupid soundtrack , well done whoever uploaded it
He's so wise. Ahead of his time and relevant and in this discourse,Thank you.
Love Alan's voice! He out-voices even Richard Burton!
i like Jim Rohns Voice but i do agree
No, not quite. Burtons voice was on another level, much richer.
@@hunterluxton5976 What does his finances have to do with anything?🍻😂
@@originalkingalpha5116 I take it your referring indirectly to his social background? It has nearly everything to do with it. He was privately educated in England. We call them " public schools"', which is a bit misleading as it means private or fee paying. Students who go to these elitist establishments end up speaking with a plumby voice, which is not something foreigners are fully aware of. These fuckers end up taking all of the top jobs, go to oxbridge ( that means Oxford or cambridge) and run the country. 65% of the cabinet went to private schools, thats over 9 times the number in the general population. Over 60% went to Oxbridge. This does not make the most of British talent. Watts has an " establishment accent". That says a lot, to the average Brit - instant. The parasites we call Royals are even more loathsome, but thats another story.
@@hunterluxton5976 Lol, obviously the joke went completely over your head. However, I'm delighted with your extremely informative reply as it is quite an interesting one. It sparked an endearing kindred spirit of intellectual awareness of enlightenment that you and I possess. Lol, I initially intended to lighten the moment, per your original comment, and garnered a collectively, insightful, perception of knowledge. Thanks, Hunter! I've subscribed to your channel!🍻
To see these negative comments towards a man that see's & speaks words beyond his time, it's like some one seeing those majestic mountains & calling them ugly & useless. I guess there has to bad to see good...mad respect for Mr Alan Watts. Btw.. you choose to have the mortgage, if living in a monastery or it's a mortgage gives you peace, I hope you find it.
People hate the player...not the game!
It is absurd how relevant this is in 2024,almost 50 years after alan watts passing
Its almost like he was warning the people
Awwwwww. The wisdom of this man! We need this more than ever. I wonder what he would have to say about the coming AI revolution?
I found a shift came for me when I stopped believing I needed money, NO I need food, shelter, friendship etc. Money can be a means to an end but it's worth less than toilet paper when it comes to meeting ACTUAL needs. Refer to Maslow's pyramid.
@scottmcgee3121 Money can be a means to an end but it's worth less than toilet paper when it comes to meeting ACTUAL needs. I disagree, as long as the economy is functioning, money is the means to compel others to create and provide one with toilet paper. It is worth exactly as much as toilet paper, when you need toilet paper.
@@chadgessner4412 the purpose of money is actually to restrict or block people that don't have it from what they need and to allow those with it to control those without by exploiting those needs.
I've been at my job 24yrs and I luv it,,I'm a janitor under payed over worked sum days but I luv it, I own my own home/property drive nice cars and pretty much do what I want when I want, the average person is a drone spending more than they earn buying things they don't need ,,fool's
I was one of them, comfort spending is a syndrome of unresolved emotional baggage.
Peace
@@sebastianliwinski222 agree
@@tucoramirez9729 do u enjoy making things clean?
@banderas2000 yes very much, I take pride in my work
I was my most happiest when i was unemployed.
Wow, it's been how many decades? And everything he said is exactly still true, truer than ever. We have not learned a thing.
55yrs
This great man Watts properly gets me in the journey.
what a wisdom this man has, the most underrated philosopher and wisdom teacher of our times....
he is not underrated at all, hes extremely popular, especially the time he was alive everyone had heard of him
His popularity has caused the current mess we’re in
@@WalkInTheParkPlaygroupExplain that one.
often published in Playboy Magazine in the day
it seems you are scared@@WalkInTheParkPlaygroup
Thank you so much for not tainting the listening experience with crass, background mood muzak!!
I cannot have a place to live without money. It is literally illegal to live off the land. So I must own property that ties me to taxes indefinitely. It is good to stay busy and amazing to do something you enjoy for a means of providing for my family. Living off grid is becoming more and more impossible due to my local laws. I agree this is a trap and money is simply made up to make trading goods and services easier. However there is no way out of this rigged game currently.
What are you talking about it’s illegal to live off the land ?
Buy Bitcoin
Start researching money manifestation. Money is an unlimited energy source that you can tap into, I would start with Neville Goddard.
Well, it would be hard work, but even this scenario isn’t real. “Illegal” is a concept; it’s not real, unless you believe it is.
Property tax is not real. You can get that property off the register. It just takes work to do it. Is that the kind of work you’re interested in?
@@theplanetruthcan you expound? I’m interested.
I actually really like my job. I started my own career out of pure passion and turned it into a business which later transitioned into a good job where I don't have to work that hard anymore as I get older. I work about 20 hours per week sitting on my couch Answering the phone and helping people with technical problems and I make about $124,000 per year. I earned it!
lucky u
@@freeupminds there's no luck whatsoever about it!
@@freeupmindsluck happens when opportunity meets preparation.
Doubt it
How did you do it?
🙏 for posting a lecture I've not heard yet. grateful hank...
I was an automation engineer. I left that lucrative career because I sold, designed, and built systems that made the executives money as the general employees were dismissed. When I saw that I wiped out 25% of a town's employment, I finally saw I couldn't do this. I chose a vocation and a comparatively meager income (same as my first year after college 30 yrs ago) but now I help people rather than destroy towns.
Wow. Don’t know how I ended up here but glad it happened. Thank you to the gods of Algorithms…
That's the universe way of alignment. Welcome to the Aquarian Age.
So much of what he says about automation and machinery can be applied to the developments in AI and its economical implications today.
Inner fullness attracts outer fullness ✊🏽💙🐘⚓💯
🦄😎Fanci seeing you here! That's the goal, become magnetic inside, let it reflect outside.
@@voices4dayz469 matrix duality mastered 💎
Wow, this was so profound. Clearly, a man who could think very well.
One can usually expect an attack for pointing out the disconnect between our actions and our goals, with reference this topic of jobs of work.
This was so insightful and needed to be heard. I have been challenged with the beleiefs that I need to work a job in order to make money even though I dont want a job. I think there has been a deep programming that we can only make money through working for others. I know work for myself and I do make money but there can be a lack of trust that I will be able to make enough money on my own. Thank you for providing this audio.
I suspect there's enough money , automation and ai in the world now that most people do not need to work or work maybe say 5 hours a week
You’re not alone!!! :( I feel the same way. We are all being led astray. Don’t trust anyone and question everything you hear and see.
I’m glad I woke up back in 2006 and invested in myself. Once you figure out how money works you will never have to work on a job for the rest of your life. That’s what they do not teach us in school because it will destroy their system that they have for us to be modern day slaves.
Got any tips for a 23 year old N.E.E.T? I dont want to get a job but i dont wanna sit here lonely and miserable either.
Bless you sir.Thanks for the liberation ❤
A few more viewers than usual seem to disagree or react strongly with this particular lecture.
I belive this is because he hints here at ideas that are seemingly in stark opposition or challenge to our current cultural definitions and beliefs of success, livelihood, and belonging.
Instead of his typical "you can be this," or, "we have the capacity to do this," or, "you are more wise or capable than you are lead to believe..." here he is instead implying that modern society is fucked up and arbitrary, lacking tangible purpose or direct correlation to our survival or happiness...in other words because we no longer provide directly for the wellbeing of our own communities we have substituted money and wealth as ideals for well-being and our lost connections.
This is because for over 100,000 years we lived in small communities where everyone had an role to fulfill that was important or meaningful to the community...
Now, however, only within the past few hundred or thousands of years, the dynamic has changed with the advent of wealth, and we adopted money as a stand-in for the farming, healing, music and art and other roles of importance that were indicative of survival and well-being.
He implies that our current mode of existence is perhaps not best. This makes sense because as humans we literally learn and grow by mistakes. In only 100 years, people will look back and likely think, "how foolish they were. So crude or misguided!"
More imperative is the notion that for 99% of our culture's existence, we had a great stake in our purpose and livelihood.....now however there are 400 different toothbrushes available when you are at the grocery store. Do we actually need 400 varieties? No. It's just ventures by different organizations to make a few people very wealthy and provide "a living" to a few thousand other "workers." Do you think the factory workers were really meant to be bristle assemblage connectors on a line? Do you think they really give a shit about toothbrushes or how good they are at pressing the buttons and filling out the daily reports? What a waste of a beautiful being--humans beings built and grown to move and solve problems. We are so much better than transforming the earth into dumb shit to make shareholders rich.
This is stil the Dark Ages in my opinion. But it's ok. This is how we learn and ultimately grow--both as individuals and a species--by trial and error and making mistakes.
The irony is if you DO NOT subscribe to the contemporary accepted or popular notions of work and success, you will likely be ostracized by your peers. This is actually not a huge deal in modern times, yet we are gravely terrified to object or risk ostracization because, for 100,000 years prior to this, being outcast from the community meant a greatly diminished chance of survival. We come preprogrammed with this instinct.
I believe if we all stopped acting like an idiot in one of those money booths and realized this is just a giant frenzied mad grab for as much cash and resources and comfort as we can before we die (even tho you can't take any with you)...we could come up with some good ideas and accomplish some amazing things.
Until then, we will continue to exist and behave a just chimps with better tools.
P.S. watts is merely an observer, as are we all, speaking about the contemporary from a larger, older, or at least more impartial place. He doesn't perform repeated experiments nor conduct research, nor does he always tell us what we want to hear.
Find something you love and practice it regularly!
Brilliant talk. The part about the bank vaults with missing gold makes sense. "Money is nothing but bookkeeping."
OMG the people sniffing and coughing in the background!!
Thank you for not putting background music.
is there a continuation of this somewhere?
the system has been broken since our ancestors came here. We will never change as a Nation…dream onn my friends. Great content! 👍
very interesting and also fun to listen! thank you for sharing! this guy is really original, and mind opening !
Shame he is no more. I would like to drink some tea with Mr. Watts and talk shit about all things people have been wonder from day one. It would be blast, too bad only soulmates I have are the dead men of old times...
I wish I could string together a sentence like this. I feel all of this.
Damn, I’m gonna have to listen to this again and again
Alan watts rocks...❤
Alan rocks what?
The real danger of being an employee/working a job for too long is that we get practiced into the employee mentality and that mentality slowly strangles our higher aspirations until one day, we’re unable to fully breathe life.
This is the best breakdown on currency I have ever heard... Kind of a shame after spending years in college.
I love Alan Watts❤
Money is the goal of largest and most powerful groups. Individuals don't get as much say as they think. They only let the individual percieve just enough freedom to keep him subdued.
Its easy to say but we need at least enough money for food and put a roof over our heads. Most of us don't have the luxury of having a vocation, especially if we weren't given good guidance in our formative years. The real problem falling in love with money. Nothing wrong with doing a job to earn a crust. Just don't break your back doing it
Wouldn’t be the first step that a job doesn’t make us unhappy? Becoming happy from a job is just another level.
Lessglow! you shared superb drone-:))
Agreed 🫶🏽🦅🫶🏽
He had a wonderful laughter, the good late Alan Watts.
Thank you for sharing this video it was very interesting & a real eye-opener. 💖
If we enjoy our avocations they can serve as meditation. THE ULTIMATE MULTITASKING 😊😊😊❤❤
I get the impression Alan Watts was suggesting a universal basic income and I agree with him. Every other animal species expends very little time working for food and housing, working for the basics. Most of their time is resting on the grass or playing around. When did humans become so neurotic and uptight?? 🤔
Except from dogs and a few other animals , all animals are constantly looking for food. Have you ever seen a chicken going a minute without his beak down looking for small insect/grains etc
We are born into a system that induces us into this state of being that is not aligned with our true nature
are we chicken ?@@immasavage2905
@@immasavage2905 Well, we don't really know how a chicken performs in its natural environment, do we? Rabbits spend a lot of time eating but the point is that their food is readily available, not rationed by big corporations if they jump through enough hoops.
Consumerism is the diseasd. JESUS is the cure
We need a continuation of this powerful speech, Part 2 please, it was getting good and my attention in 2024. 🤗😊❤️
If you never risk failure, you never give yourself a chance at success
This is remarkably clear audio of Master Watts despite him apparently lecturing in a dusty, groaning wooden barn, in a hay-loft full of cat dander and and the ghost of a whistling farmer. I can almost see the particles of dust in the sloping afternoon sunlight
A so called wisdom from a guy who never done this hard dirty work in his live.
That's a worthy notion. He can go swab a deck or scrub a public toilet.
Oh he did, maybe you should look into his CV before being a smartass ^^
True but it is still fun to listen to him.
Absolutely spot on
Wonder what the ticket price for this talk was?
Upload the whole lecture please!
Watts is right. Working all day for the man so that the man can get rich is absurd and futile. But one must work to survive and live. However, one should strive to find work that one likes to do and is passionate about. If this is not possible, consecrate your work as service to the Divine. This will give your work meaning and purpose.
Your job really is to find something you like or even love doing and to ignore bitter angry people who insist you work doing something you hate
Or, become the man
I love hiking walking around I got a job cutting grass because it's essentially what I do anyway just with a weed Wacker lol I still get to pick up mushrooms and herbs growing wild on this planet in places I normally don't go it doesn't feel like work to me every yard is another adventure to me
I have (mostly) managed to find jobs that paid me to do the things I would like to do anyway. Of course, that meant changing jobs, or even careers, more often than most and I'm sure I could have made more money. I retire in about a year and will have passive income to maintain myself. I am super excited to see what I will get into next with real freedom.
Great man! how old are you and which professional journey did u do?
He won’t answer cause it’s a troll, a robot, or just a fucking lier. Most of us are NOT happy at all with our current situation here on slave prison planet Earth. No worries the false matrix is all being taken down soon, we will all be sovereign and free. We will NOT have to PAY anyone to live on this Earth. ❤❤❤
What kind of things did you do in your jobs that you liked doing?
Thanks for making this video. Good ol' Alan Watts I like working (vs.a job(something you do for someone else for money)), and work hard here at my home and would prefer to have my own business, but as far as jobs go, I don't fit in very well and end up under employed most of my life. Here later in life, its a big stress.
22:09 This is why Alan Watts is still a leading intellectual of the post-WWII era. How many few can reach this level (outside of a select other few like Terence McKenna and UG Krishnamurti).
AGREED!
We all have wisdom to share, and although I agree that some people like Watts have great thoughts, and are important thinkers, its important to remember that it's our own wisdom and common sense that is most important to us. We always need to trust our own wisdom first in my opinion.
@@braeburn2333 However, wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.🙂
We all have inner wisdom. Alan has this amazing ability to express it in words we understand.
He is a master at that.
@@denverspin Lol, no. Everyone isn't wise.
The kingdoms is all ready with in us,kings on the inside and sage's on the outside.just look deeper inwards. Whatever your faith ❤
When he says it they listen . I have been asking why people do it since I was a child ? ..and was told " shh , because thats how it is "
I have been frustratedly objecting to it my whole adult life and told I am lazy or anti social . No one laughs , no one listens or wants to admit how absurd it is .
its not absurd, either you want to be part of the working system, or you dont. if you choose not to, then good luck to ya since you are most likely destined to failure. the system can be a comfort to those who understand how to capitalize on its benifits
@@YOUARESOFT. ..do you mean ' who profit from it ?
While you are here perhaps look up narrative bias or maybe even moral relativism. Just because it's a comfort for some doesn't make it right . Nike trainers are likely conformable for those who can afford them but less so for the fingers of the kids in sweat shops exploited to sew them together.
@@YOUARESOFT. what's absurd is twice my reply to you was removed.
dude my commens get deleted on a regular basis i feel u, you tube is getting ghey af@@guzgrant
There are plenty of REAL HUMAN SOULS out here that agree with you. This troll who replied to you is not a real human soul.
Over the years I have known so many people stuck in jobs they absolutely detest, patiently waiting and saving for retirement. Looking forward to it so much, like as if it was the answer to their dreams.
Problem is, their retirement never came and they died still hating their everyday life. Their jobs were their lives, they just didn’t know it.
Always Alan💫✨💛
I tried actions intrinsic to earning money, so that I can survive, but it feels like not surviving.
I tried actions intrinsic to survival so that I can live, and so far it feels great, I basically chucked a load of seeds about, stuff is now growing from the ground like magic.
Wow i really needed to hear this in this moment
Perfect timing, I'd say...
Helped my Austrian reckoning grasp a deep understanding of Keynsian logic that I never accepted before and adds a lot of new questions about my love affair with bitcoin. So deep.
My love affair with BTC is that it will free me from having to work.. it’s not loving money, it’s loving the one currency we have that is truly finite. Time. I’d love to hear his view on BTC.
@@OxymoronicTonic you're right about the freedom. I've become good tat making money for the past couple of years but when I imagined all the other things I might be able to do if I didn't have to spend all my time making money I was so excited about my prospects.
Thank you for posting this talk, best wishes to all fellow listeners.
The bitter irony of feeling very guilty about what one has done is that
it quite often results in one repeating the actions for which one already felt very guilty.
Edit:
I think the only remedy for this painful situation is radical forgiveness of self
and others.
Lmao ain’t that the truth.
Yep, just let go! :)
How old is this talk? Watts is talking about UBI and automation and it seems totally relevant in 2024. I like how he recognises that our work ethic is messed up
He died in 1973.
This seems to end abruptly ... Where is rest of the lecture.. where to find it?
You can buy his lectures from his son mark watts if your interested enough to pay unfortunately that's the only answer I got besides go digging some more on TH-cam hope this helps
@@austintomkewitz3981 OK .. thanks for your reply.
@austintomkewitz3981 his son certainly believes in money
All the lectures are on the Waking Up app. And they're brilliant.
His son has put a lot of lectures up on Spotify. I'm wondering if it's amongst them? open.spotify.com/show/3RZiM62g8XYE4PuEF2EleN?si=FHSrAlTFTeWV9yvfSHLLtw
Thanks so much for this and for editing with beautiful footage as opposed to the usual ethereal music which I believe Alan Watts would have winced against
He accurately predicted the raise of meaningless jobs which are now very common in the Tech sector, for which many now see the layoffs as a necessary cycle to keep this meaningless jobs in check.
so, thats only natural
That laugh is pure wisdom
Thank you
I think the Brother is Brilliant love ❤ it
Is this where I got my beliefs? I was born in 1966, and believe I must have heard this before.
such a Gem of a video