10.17.2007

Making Life

No. This does not, in this case, mean making babies. As wonderful as the act of sex may be, I am not proposing that we start having it all the time (though it's not a bad idea).

This means taking aspects of our life and making them voluntary.

Think about it.

What if the classic workplace with cubicles was something entirely different, an event of sorts, created and participated in voluntarily as an amusement. People would walk in and look at the (volunteer, randomly appearing) actors, wondering how peculiar it must be. Maybe they'd even sit down and try it out of curiosity, spontaneously becoming actors themselves. Spitball wars and the like would ensue, and each day in the cubicle offices would be created.

Or maybe you take a section of the city and install secret doors and rooms, set up fog machines and put controls on the lights so you can set how bright or dim it is. You put boards or bridges between the rooftops and have people running around at all hours acting as villians (popping out and scaring people, chasing you, etc.) or victims (running away, etc.). People could be constant actors or spontaneous actors, and the entire situation would be constructed.


What I propose we do is create entire districts of cities, with permission or without, that are like giant, constant scenes. You could have gloomy districts, crazy colorful districts (like you're walking through a real-life acid trip), districts with secret rooms, doors, buildings, tunnels, labyrinths, districts with moving walls and buildings, and whatever else the mind can come up with. Instead of creating a haunted house or a psychedelic mansion, we create a haunted neighborhood or psychedelic/insane business district.

Why is it we involuntarily enslave ourselves, going into our prisons of necessity from day to day? Wouldn't it be better if we could make these areas our own??? Why haven't we already?

Let's begin creating our world, one situation at a time. Maybe then we can free the oppressed from the persons of mean persuasion, allowing them to exist in worlds of their creation with their own voluntary participation...