If you write about something nobody experiences, nobody will read it

These people who live so close to the center of the social theatre, I’m so sorry but I can’t stand them for long

Meditation and reflection is sitting quietly at the edge of the social theatre and just becoming aware

My death-despair about entrenched conventions

We have determined it from some basis, some universality[?] Instincts? Instincts that can differ; that murder is bad, almost everyone sees as obvious. Or is it that it has been taught to us?

There is some basis for humanity-love in the human layer is there not? Some ‘natural’ basis. What do I then say about that? We don’t create everything from scratch in the social theatre?

Consider this statement: ‘murder is bad’. And now imagine all humans gone; is this statement still ‘true’? No absolutely not, that statement has no meaning without humans

You have the power to break your plates and buy new ones; don’t forget it. You have the power to change those little things in your life that you find annoying

Reflection is not stopping

[If you stop, you are in an artificial world, for the real world is movement. And so you must reflect in movement not in stopping.]

To see nakedness, not touch it. But we seem too intrigued by it not to touch it

Immediately flicking insects away from our clothes reflects our inability to reflect; our inability to stand still and look

That our seeing in 3D might be largely illusion, doesn’t mean reality is not 3D

Is it not arrogant to think that we could create all of that? Is the idea of the social theatre arrogant? But surely not more arrogant [than] to think we can completely understand all of reality

The tilting of that which is straight

I can change nothing of the systems that we use but I can change our perspective on it by creating awareness

Buttoning up your shirt and unbuttoning your shirt are both decided by others

Have I been seen? Am I supposed to act differently if I have been seen? If I am known? If I have said something? No, I am not reduced to what I have said or what has been seen of me

We can cry about shapes on a page

How hilarious to have a ‘national animal’. How sad to own an animal

Do not forget to observe with[out] notation

As children we are the most real

I mourned your death yesterday, the you in my head, just to see how it would be. It was supposed to be acting but in the end I was crying intensely

It’s like teens or kids aren’t allowed to express their feelings. It would be looked down upon if they would make for example a song about sex

Only when I am dead will they hear me and listen

Tonight it was the dragon storm

I want to do all that is not normal

Giving them awareness of the social theatre would take away their happiness in it, like it has done for me. Perhaps humans are destined to function in ignorance

Acting implies awareness of the social theatre, but there is not that. So it is unaware acting. And perhaps only sometimes aware

I will soften to this life, I am sure. Give it time

‘I won’t disturb you in your theatre performance’

I’m excited to be without others again

And I am not really in the text, my mind glides over it without commuting to it

In capitalism you cannot take a day off because nature is getting pretty

I am too tired to write it down every time. Tired that what I write is never what I mean

My breaking of the system will always only be understood by the system. Philosophers who broke [the system] also just appear in ‘the study book’

Do I just have to learn to have fun or something?

It is a candy shop to us is it not? We sit in the cinema and look at these philosophers

To think of a philosophical idea before having ever heard of the philosopher who ‘introduced’ it

Communication (of the social theatre) is the contaminated form of communication. Because it brings fakeness

‘We’ do not know how to deal with one who breaks through the structure of the social theatre. Silent shocks

Spheres of comfort and un-comfort

If I give you truth and then not an example of it, do you suddenly not believe it; is it then suddenly not truth?

We say it’s irresponsible to let your (young) child do their own thing, find their own path

‘Wonen, zitten, slapen’ that’s all

The trivial is necessary [to function]

How absurd, we have no idea what others are doing, what scientists do etc.

[We see only results. And even if we see some process, we see only the result of writing down that process, not the actually process itself.]

From a fight with one religion (Christianity) to the next religion (science), how exhausting

Humanity and science is a small child at the table who is making a puzzle. For the child the puzzle is impressive

After immersion in a certain perspective we can be convinced of anything. Of course a plea for science makes my view of science milder. But how mild can that view get? What value does my frustration against science than have?

On a philosophy exam philosophizing would not be accepted

The fact that we think that we can describe the real world (with science) is an unconscious illusion

Maybe I ridicule science because I don’t understand it. Yet I could say the same for anything else, for Christianity. But I would say that because I understand it, I ridicule it

I simply don’t believe in science in the same way as most

The further away you go, the less you can see distance. Actually we can see no distance at all. Distance doesn’t exist at all

Falsification is perhaps a good standard for science but science is not a good standard for reality