Alan Watts - Life and Music (HD quality)

Life and Music, an animation.

Special thanks to Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park), who have been dishing out some ill animation slices that illustrate gems from the archives of Alan Watts.

Source: http://www.freshminds.com/animation/alan_watts_theater.html

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In music, 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 wrote only finales.

[laughs] People would go to concerts

just to hear one crashing chord--

and that's the end [laughs].

But, we don't see that as, uh, something

brought by our education

into our everyday conduct.

We've got a system of schooling

that gives a completely different impression.

It's all graded and what we do is we put the

child into the corridor of this grade system

with a kind of, "come on kitty kitty kitty"

and now you go to kindergarten, you know, and that's a

great thing because when you finish that

you get into first grade and then, come on,

first grade leads to second grade and so on.

And then you get out of grade school you got high school

and it's revving up--the thing is coming--

and then you've got to go to college.

And, by jove, then you get into graduate school.

And when you're through with graduate school

you go out and join the world.

And then you get into some racket

where you're selling insurance

and they've got that quota to make.

And you're going to make that.

And all the time the thing is coming.

It's coming, it's coming --that great thing--

the success you're working for.

Then when 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.

And there's a slight let down because you feel

there's a hoax.

And there was a hoax.

A dreadful hoax.

They made you miss everything

We thought of life by analogy with a journey

with a pilgrimage

which had a serious purpose at the end.

And the thing was to get to 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.