duwen -> RE: What is Flamenco? (Apr. 11 2009 0:37:31)
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(when I asked the question why are 'we' bored, some here thought I was meaning me. But the reason I put commas round 'we' was to suggest i wasn't either speaking about me or the members here....Wrong! [8|] I was referring to who I had mostly mentioned, youth and their video games....? Pay attention [;)] Personally I hardly ever get bored. There have of course been times in my life when I have been despairingly bored. And to 'fix' that have gotten attached to some pretty self-destructive habits. Bad in one way, and I wouldn't recommend it to any one, but the positive from it is it adds to depth of experience. IE., you've been to a hell, and returned kind of thing...? Surely when you learn an art, an instrument then this resolves that sense of boredom. But for me the essence of resolving it is beginning to be aware of the duende of life. Its deepness. Of nature, relationships, and so on I completely get what you mean at_leo_87 Those kinds of shows mould the watchers. THEY become a means to inform gullible young how to act. I feel that we have lost the joy of play. For example, as kids we knew how to play, it is natural. We can imagine scenarios even though we know they aren't 'real', and it was great fun. But culture then imposes on us the idea that that was specifically for then, and now we must be 'sensible, normal, adults', though we ARE allowed to get as drunk as hell and act the fool--as many many of the youth are doing. Here in my country this is epidemic, and i know other countries have this problem. So I wonder why this is? And I think it is many things, and a big part of is we have been made to feel we cannot play and use our imagination, UNLESS we are routed into the usual acceptable rituals as said as going and getting drunk or drugged (and by 'drugged' I dont mean respectful partaking of sacred medicine. But many youth use psychedelics, disrespectfully, as a means of escape and this can be self-destructive, yes. But this is part of the overall suppression of our naturalness). Let me give an example of play. Yesterday soon after talking here with you about 'Total Immersion', I soon had to go and cook a meal in the kitchen. I was playing guitar and at first felt it a drag I had to leave my guitar--you know how it is [:D] --so I did this: I pretended I was going to experience an old fashioned kitchen (ours is anceint lol) from the 1930s-- total immersion , so as i entered the kitchen i was playing at looking at the experience like that, just for fun. And doing this has an effect on your senses. That is what i mean by play. A kid would know what i mean anyhow. But most adults might call it 'crazy'. Being called crazy, or thinking yourself crazy, is a huge fear in our age. It implies 'mental illness'. And this brings us to the vast subject of the mental illness myth!
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