The existence, the physical universe is basically playful. There is no necessity for it whatsoever. It isn’t going anywhere. That is to say, it doesn’t have some destination that it ought to arrive at.
But that it is best understood by the analogy with music. Because music, as an art form is essentially playful. We say, “You play the piano” You don’t work the piano.
Why? Music differs from say, travel. When you travel you are trying to get somewhere. In music, though, one doesn’t make the end of the composition. The point of the composition. If that were so, the best conductors would be those who played fastest. And there would be composers who only wrote finales. People would go to a concert just to hear one crackling chord… Because that’s the end!
Same way with dancing. You don’t aim at a particular spot in the room because that’s where you will arrive. The whole point of the dancing is the dance.
But we don’t see that as something brought by our education into our conduct. We have a system of schooling which gives a completely different impression. It’s all graded and what we do is put the child into the corridor of this grade system with a kind of, “Come on kitty, kitty.” And you go onto kindergarten and that’s a great thing because when you finish that you get into first grade. Then, “Come on” first grade leads to second grade and so on. And then you get out of grade school and you got high school. It’s revving up, the thing is coming, then you’re going to go to college… Then you’ve got graduate school, and when you’re through with graduate school you go out to join the world.
Then you get into some racket where you’re selling insurance. And they’ve got that quota to make, and you’re gonna make that. And all the time that thing is coming – It’s coming, it’s coming, that great thing. The success you’re working for.
Then you wake up one day about 40 years old and you say, “My God, I’ve arrived. I’m there.” And you don’t feel very different from what you’ve always felt.
Look at the people who live to retire; to put those savings away. And then when they’re 65 they don’t have any energy left. They’re more or less impotent. And they go and rot in some, old peoples, senior citizens community. Because we simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line.
If we thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at that end, and the thing was to get to that thing at that end. Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead.
But we missed the point the whole way along.
It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.
Looking back it was a journey to ascend to the next level through dance or say theatre. Society at any moment is a mysterious way, like AI machine to sqeeze out of anything authentic no matter how revolutionary, how heroic, how genious a norm of living, giving the impression of reflecting the whole meaning of life in this battle of the opposites. Society is an AI as our intelligence is something artificial, means creative abstract reasoning apparatus on the top of reality that selects arbitrary points out of the life's paintings in order to draw some lines and distinct one, two, three, one million, billion shapes and thus value them, creating comparison and competition, just as our mind does. This is the job of society, formed and created by our subconscious ways, to keep itself alive by submitting fairy tales and myths, gods and demons in order to entertain an audience and virtually create membership and to collect a fee. There is nothing bad to it, as there is nothing bad to go to school, get an education and become an actor in a tv series or a state theatre. This is a way that life after becoming humanized creates roads and walls, manifactures buildings, something artificial so that we need all our awareness all our skills, all our energies to climb up to some high point in order to see the vast horizon of not yet come into being. The meeting line of an amorphous sky and a fluid world of forms and dynamics down on earth, under our feet. So, one might as well say that on the top of all these revealing truths that make us depressive and ready to resign the moment we realize how vain is to try to fix society, if we go a little further, we find out that society might as well be the most suitable play yard in order to realize our nature, to develop more or less safely our skills and by keeping in the back of our mind that life itself is immortal and immoral, we can go out and regain the joy of being carefree creators, dancers, players, authors of our own imagination. This is the point we join the world, we appreciate the world, being at the same time connected we the indifferent playful universe of emergence...
