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So you are here and I am here, spending our time as we must.

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[Sound of heartbeats, in the background.]

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I am trying not to spend this time as I spend most of my time,

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trying to get you to like me.

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[Laughter.]

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Trying to control your thoughts, to use my voodoo

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at the speed of light, the speed of sound, at the speed of thought.

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It is an ancient pattern of time usage for me

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and I am trying to move deeper, hoping to be helpful.

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This pattern of time usage paints over an ancient wound

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and paints it with bright colours.

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It's a sleight of hand, a distraction,

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so to attempt to change the pattern, let me expose the wound.

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I do know that it is old.

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I do know that it is a hole in my being.

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I do know it is tender.

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I do believe that it is unknowable, or at least, inarticulable.

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I do believe you have a wound, too.

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I do believe it is both specific to you

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and common to everyone.

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I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected.

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It is the thing that is tap-danced over, five shows a day.

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It is the thing that won't be interesting to other people if revealed.

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It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic.

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It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible.

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It is your secret, even from yourself,

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but it is the thing that wants to live.

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It is the thing from which your art, your painting, your dance,

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your composition, your philosophical treatise, your screenplay, is born.

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People all over the world spend countless hours

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of their lives every week being fed entertainment

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in the forms of movies, TV shows, newspapers, YouTube videos, the internet

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and it's ludicrous to believe this stuff doesn't alter our brains.

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And it's also equally ludicrous to believe that, at the very least,

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this mass distraction and manipulation is not convenient for the people who are in charge.

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People are starving.

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They may not know it, because they are being fed mass-produced garbage.

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The packaging is colourful and it's loud,

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but it's being produced in the same factories that make Pop Tarts and iPads,

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by people sitting around thinking, "What can we do to get people to buy more of these?"

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And they're very good at their jobs, but that's what it is you're getting,

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because that's what they're making.

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They're selling you something.

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And the world is built on this, now.

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Politics and government are built on this.

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Corporations are built on this.

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Interpersonal relationships are built on this.

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And we're starving, all of us, and we're killing each other, and we're hating each other,

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and we're calling each other liars and evil,

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because it's all become marketing and we want to win,

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because we're lonely and empty and scared and we're led to believe winning will change all that.

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[Sounds of fight announcer, crowd, from television]

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The world is very scary now.

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It always has been, but something grotesque and specific to our time is blanketing us.

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We need to see that it is not reality.

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It is a choice we are making,

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or allowing other people to make for us.

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Don't allow yourself to be tricked into thinking

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that the way things are is the way the world must work.

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[Heartbeats begin again.]

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What I'd like to express is the notion that by being honest, thoughtful, and aware of the existence of other living beings,

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a change can begin to happen in how we think of ourselves and the world,

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and ourselves in the world.

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We are not the passive audience for this big, messed up power play.

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We don't have to be.

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We can say who we are.

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We can assert our right to existence.

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We can say to the bullies and con men,

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the people who try to shame us and embarrass us, flatter us,

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to the people who have no compunction about lying to us to get our money and our allegience,

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that we are thinking, really thinking, about who we are

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and we will express ourselves and with this, other people won't feel so alone.

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I want to tell you that I have a hope that there is another way to be in this world

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and that I believe with courage and vulnerability and honesty,

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that the stuff we put into the world can serve a better purpose.

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What I have to offer is me.

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What you have to offer is you.

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[Crowd sounds, cheering.]