Anyone Know Why I'm Saying?

Dear Avid Reader,

Open Up Your, Open Up Your, Open Up Your Throat

I believe that everyone should be required to watch themselves having a conversation with someone else on video. This is probably the only way to effectively become self-aware. And really why deny ourselves this oppurtunity to rocket past every philosopher in history.

I'm sure your confused right now. What can I say? You haven't watched yourself. What other outcome would you expect?

I Know It Sucks That Daddy's Dumb But Try To Think Of What You Want

In college I took theatre courses. There were excercises that required us to watch our performances on video. It was horrible. It was embarrassing. It changed everything.

Instead of believing what I thought I was like, I was confronted with what I was truly like. I had no idea i was that tall. In my head thought I was pretty close to normal, but the reality was different. I was struck with what others saw first. It was my own first impression.

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By seeing myself, I saw how different I was. This is key because I think everyone else has a similar delusion: that they look normal. But we are totally wrong. Each of us is so freaking un-normal. And I think this is what drives people to talk in cliches.

Let The All Of That Time, All Of That Time, All Of That Time Go

This is the second benefit of watching a conversation that you are in: you have to hear yourself. Mostly, you have to hear how boring you are. See, we think that we look normal and sound extrodinary, but the opposite is true.

We laugh when things aren't funny, we make staements that we don't beleive in, and we repeat things that sound like something that someone like us would say at the time. Essentially, we feel a need to just say our lines and get off stage before anyone figures out that we don't have any answers.

You Got To Weigh What He Said To Help You Shape The Way You Play

Philosophers were interested in truth and understanding who we are. Today, philosophy is a required college credit and nothing more. I think the reason we aren't interested is that with video equipment we can all become philosophers. What other device can make yourself so keenly aware of who you are? Not books I tell you. Not thinking hard.

You Gotta Get Rid Of The Mourning, Sort Out The Habits Of Your Mind

Watch yourself, even if you don't use a camera, float above yourself. You know exactly why you are saying the things you say. It blows your mind. You know the subtext. Or worse, you have no idea why you say the things that you say. That is even more puzzling.

It would be like you reading blog posts from four years ago and wondering "What the heck were you doing" and "Why haven't you posted in so long".

The Next Post Promises To Be Better,

James