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One man's (Alan Watts) observations.
Here's the first part of his monologue:
"To Awake..
To awaken. To AWAKEN from the illusion, is then to undergo a radical CHANGE of consciousness, with regard to one's own existence. It is to CEASE being under the impression that you are just, "poor little me" (and) to find out who you really are, or WHAT you really are, behind the mask.
When I was a small boy, I used to haunt that section of London around the British Museum, and one day I came across a shop which had a notice over the window which said "Philosophical Instruments".
Even as a boy, I knew something of philosophy.. but I couldn't imagine what "Philosophical Instruments" could be. So, I went up to the window and there, displayed, were chronometers, slide rules, scales, and all kinds of what we would now call "SCIENTIFIC Instruments".
Because "science" used to be called "natural philosophy". (and) because Aristotle says, "The beginning of Philosophy is Wonder. Philosophy is man's expression of curiosity about everything - his attempt to make sense of the world, primarily through his intellect...
Now, I'm particularly interested in the attitude of the family to CHILDREN, because we have an absolutely extraordinary attitude, in our culture and in various other cultures, "high civilizations", to the new member of human society..
Instead of saying frankly to children, "How do you do? Welcome to the Human Race. We are playing a game and we are playing by the following rules. We want to tell you what the rules are so that you'll know your way around, and when you've understood what rules we are playing by, when you get older, you may be able to invent BETTER ONES."
But instead of that, we still retain an attitude to the child that HE IS ON "PROBATION" - HE'S NOT REALLY A HUMAN BEING - HE'S A "CANDIDATE" FOR "HUMANITY". ? And in just this way, we have a whole system of "preparation of the child for life" which ALWAYS is "preparation" and never actually GETS there. In other words, we have a system of schooling which starts with grades.. and we get this little creature into the thing with a kind of, "c',mon kitty, kitty, kitty" and we get it ALWAYS PREPARING for something that's "gonna happen"...
So, you go into Nursery School as "preparation" for Kindergarten.
You go to Kindergarten as "preparation" for First Grade.
And then, you see, you go up the grades until you get to HIGH SCHOOL.
And then comes a time when, maybe, if "we" can get you FASCINATED enough with this System, you go to COLLEGE! And then when you go onto College, if you're SMART, you get into Graduate School.. and STAY a PERPETUAL STUDENT... and go back to be a Professor and just go round and round in the System."
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~ Alan Watts
Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was an English writer, speaker and self-styled "philosophical entertainer".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9m8i6jGqY
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