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.
Hey now hey now. Nothing begins like that, no song no nothing. Not a poem that is *known* or a book or a play or a movie but hey now now. The cities grow smaller with each and every passing day as they grow larger and more people come to the city, it’s always the same people that will settle for what everyone else is so as its form expands, its spirit diminishes. Where did we leave off when we forgot how to sing and dance, what happened to the diary we used to have but have no more, where did it disappear into nothingness, this us. When did you stop listening to what you did before you were 23 and what did you listen to, what do you listen to now? Can you watch inside your mind an argument with your parent and can you understand the parent?
nd we are in a world of science now, everything is being analyzed, perhaps latest of all, the very food we eat. There’s a movie called 
It flows and it ebbs, the river. We’ve been watching it for days now and we sit here, each and everyone with us collecting inspiration from the environment and everyone else, an acid dream coming through over two weeks as something new is born, a concept that encompasses all parts and thoughts of life, a package for everything for you in your life as we sat there and watched the river flow and ebb and we dreamt it at our stations and we saw it from within, it was only us there and the river, nothing caught in a twilight darkness, we were gray tainted men, tainted by civilization we appreciated nature in a professional sense, each with our profession and we changed.
I think there is hope in trying to teach people how to operate their brains.
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