Interesting take on the survival instinct, and the "paternalistic command to life" ("you MUST live!") vs. the spontaneous expression of life...
Around the 21 minute mark, Watts says something that caught my attention...that when parents treat life as drudgery, their children learn that attitude. And life becomes a drudgery that we MUST perform. So that, collectively, we seem to create things like atom bombs as a form of suicide to end that drudgery. Whereas if life is NOT treated as necessary, but as a spontaneous expression, there's LESS of a drive towards suicide...something like that...
Watts: "G.K. Chesterton once said that the angels fly because they take themselves lightly."
Around the 21 minute mark, Watts says something that caught my attention...that when parents treat life as drudgery, their children learn that attitude. And life becomes a drudgery that we MUST perform. So that, collectively, we seem to create things like atom bombs as a form of suicide to end that drudgery. Whereas if life is NOT treated as necessary, but as a spontaneous expression, there's LESS of a drive towards suicide...something like that...
Watts: "G.K. Chesterton once said that the angels fly because they take themselves lightly."
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