Thinking is a worthy thing, but it’s no good when it becomes everything. Philosophy is fun, and discussion is valuable, but living on both alone is like spending your time reading recipes and food criticism and never actually tucking in to the sucker.
DOING is the key word here. The opportunities for passive entertainment are endless. TV, radio, Internet, DVD, Xbox. The real worry is when the passivity of sit-down, play along becomes an imitation of action. If we want to save the dolphins, we just make a group on Facebook, then try to make a chain mail to get a billion signatures to the Japanese Prime Minister, xpost to LJ, make a note on Twitter and use our inbuilt webcam to make a video of ourselves talking about how terrible it all is. This is the world of Slacktavism, of armchair activism. You can meet people online, chat, make money, order food. It all has the appearance of doing stuff – but it’s not.
It’s for this reason that prominent Discordian, Professor Cramulus’s term Activitist struck a chord.
An Activitist (not to be confused with an activist) is an active proponent of activities. Activitism is the opposite of being passively entertained. An activitist seeks to engage his or her environment as opposed to merely being a consumer, an observer, a member of the audience.
In a sense (in a kind of Jungs theory of opposites kind of way) it politicizes the very act of doing. The search for active entertainment, as opposed to passivity is transformed from some thing people do to a communal identity.
A group who largely embodied this spirit, though are now defunct, were the San Francisco Suicide Club, a prelude to the Cacophony Society and the Billboard Liberation Front, with members involved in the birth of Burning Man. This group held a number of events, based on gaining new experiences. From their site;
Events generally fall into three categories: Adventures, infiltrations, and stunts. As you may notice… no WHY or PHILIOSOPHY is attached…
No why or philosophy is attached… It’s not that there was no thought or reason or philosophy at all. There’s a generally explicit intention, but all of the why, the pondering, the musing and discussion comes after the fact. Before that, it’s all action.
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