Notes from Session 2: October 5th
THE CLIMAX IS NOW!
What did we remember from last week?
- Our first time list was mostly negative, time can be more positive.
How time shapes us:
- A convict spent time in jail for barely nothing, and came out with the mindset of a CRIMINAL.
- Business people are a slave to time.
Defined RANDOM:
- Has a definition, but also a way of saying "I don't know how to express what I'm saying, but I hope you understand me."
DREAMS:
- You can have a recurring dream, and go back and fix things as if you are travelling through time.
- This play creation is "collective dreaming".
DISCONNECTION from Time
- In a plane, you go from place to place, but are not really aware of the intervening movement, like teleportation.
- Similiar to us in this room, we are disconnected from the outside.
Time as POWER
- "Who determines how much of everyone else's time you can use?" (e.g. spam, telemarketing)
- EDUCATION controls people by putting them in a classroom all day, similiar to THEATRE, which is the ultimate control of time. You are put in a dark room for a set time.
- Putting your hand up: CONVENTION of the Education Environment saying "I don't feel I can decide when I am able to [take up your time] to talk."
- Are ideas like gravity and time GODS?
Looked for examples of when people used time to OPPRESS you (archaelogical sense of looking at the problem)
- Put in a tiny cubicle when "arrested" for shoplifting for the first time. There was only one door and had complete DISCONNECTION from what was going on outside.
- Traveller not allowed on a flight, as it was supposedly past the last time, and the desk was "closed". There was an argument and it was accidentally found that it was 5 minutes before the latest time, although they had spent several minutes arguing about the time. This shows how arbitrary time is.
IMPROVISATION based on the second story
- removed the realization of the correct time, as this was anticlimactic
- The Scene is now "TRUTH" regardless of the original meaning or intentions of the story.
Motivations for Clerk: want to go home, to stretch time passing in the argument so that it is really too late.
Motivations for Traveller: want to get on flight.
- Acted out story, with people tapping actors out when they got a good idea.
EXAMPLE: Kelsey tapped Dustin out as the Clerk, and made the reasoning more PERSONAL.
Defining PROGRESS:
- movement
- empty action to feel existence
- change is popular as an idea but not real change.
SOCIAL progress:
- wanted by whom? what is society?
Sidenote: Turning towards ACTION is a natural REACTION to our environment which is evolved. Noticing STILLNESS is non-intuitive.
MEASURING development/progress
- progress defined in terms of the past, often historically meaning "not PRIMITIVE"
- we measure only what we can measure, part of PROGRESS is the changing of its definition.
- The measure of progress is history, so it is defined by MEMORY, and is thus SUBJECTIVE.
MEMORY as what was measured
- memory can change
- for "SOCIAL memory", does more people make it more accurate?
EXPRESSION:
- We can't share ideas as humans that we share intuitively, because in their expression verbally, they become subjective. This is similiar to the word RANDOM.
Memory and Expression as a NARRATIVE:
- people remember NARRATIVES, that culture is a "myth".
- time is PROGRESSION through a historical story, e.g. Slaughterhouse-Five Aliens [Tralfamadorians] knew all of time as a pre-written story.
- A pre-defined story is a RITUAL.
If our perception of time is as a narrative story, then when is the CLIMAX? NOW!
There are different perspectives possible of the same story, so the perception of a narrative is subjective, and for everyone the CLIMAX IS NOW.
Time is cyclical, and we are always the moving climax. Although we can believe that the past and future are different, it is only our placement of the climax of our narrative as now that makes this so. (see picture at the beginning of this post)
NEXT WEEK:
- When did ideas from the time project session come up during the week?
- Ned will not be there until 19:00-19:30 next week, so for the first part of the session we will be working on something to show him.
What did we remember from last week?
- Our first time list was mostly negative, time can be more positive.
How time shapes us:
- A convict spent time in jail for barely nothing, and came out with the mindset of a CRIMINAL.
- Business people are a slave to time.
Defined RANDOM:
- Has a definition, but also a way of saying "I don't know how to express what I'm saying, but I hope you understand me."
DREAMS:
- You can have a recurring dream, and go back and fix things as if you are travelling through time.
- This play creation is "collective dreaming".
DISCONNECTION from Time
- In a plane, you go from place to place, but are not really aware of the intervening movement, like teleportation.
- Similiar to us in this room, we are disconnected from the outside.
Time as POWER
- "Who determines how much of everyone else's time you can use?" (e.g. spam, telemarketing)
- EDUCATION controls people by putting them in a classroom all day, similiar to THEATRE, which is the ultimate control of time. You are put in a dark room for a set time.
- Putting your hand up: CONVENTION of the Education Environment saying "I don't feel I can decide when I am able to [take up your time] to talk."
- Are ideas like gravity and time GODS?
Looked for examples of when people used time to OPPRESS you (archaelogical sense of looking at the problem)
- Put in a tiny cubicle when "arrested" for shoplifting for the first time. There was only one door and had complete DISCONNECTION from what was going on outside.
- Traveller not allowed on a flight, as it was supposedly past the last time, and the desk was "closed". There was an argument and it was accidentally found that it was 5 minutes before the latest time, although they had spent several minutes arguing about the time. This shows how arbitrary time is.
IMPROVISATION based on the second story
- removed the realization of the correct time, as this was anticlimactic
- The Scene is now "TRUTH" regardless of the original meaning or intentions of the story.
Motivations for Clerk: want to go home, to stretch time passing in the argument so that it is really too late.
Motivations for Traveller: want to get on flight.
- Acted out story, with people tapping actors out when they got a good idea.
EXAMPLE: Kelsey tapped Dustin out as the Clerk, and made the reasoning more PERSONAL.
Defining PROGRESS:
- movement
- empty action to feel existence
- change is popular as an idea but not real change.
SOCIAL progress:
- wanted by whom? what is society?
Sidenote: Turning towards ACTION is a natural REACTION to our environment which is evolved. Noticing STILLNESS is non-intuitive.
MEASURING development/progress
- progress defined in terms of the past, often historically meaning "not PRIMITIVE"
- we measure only what we can measure, part of PROGRESS is the changing of its definition.
- The measure of progress is history, so it is defined by MEMORY, and is thus SUBJECTIVE.
MEMORY as what was measured
- memory can change
- for "SOCIAL memory", does more people make it more accurate?
EXPRESSION:
- We can't share ideas as humans that we share intuitively, because in their expression verbally, they become subjective. This is similiar to the word RANDOM.
Memory and Expression as a NARRATIVE:
- people remember NARRATIVES, that culture is a "myth".
- time is PROGRESSION through a historical story, e.g. Slaughterhouse-Five Aliens [Tralfamadorians] knew all of time as a pre-written story.
- A pre-defined story is a RITUAL.
If our perception of time is as a narrative story, then when is the CLIMAX? NOW!
There are different perspectives possible of the same story, so the perception of a narrative is subjective, and for everyone the CLIMAX IS NOW.
Time is cyclical, and we are always the moving climax. Although we can believe that the past and future are different, it is only our placement of the climax of our narrative as now that makes this so. (see picture at the beginning of this post)
NEXT WEEK:
- When did ideas from the time project session come up during the week?
- Ned will not be there until 19:00-19:30 next week, so for the first part of the session we will be working on something to show him.
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